This post is for Chinese medicine practitioners. If you are a woman living with vulvodynia, you can read more about how I work with patients [here] The question of whether or not to use the acupuncture points Ren-1(Hui Yin) and Du-1 (Chang Jiang) occasionally arises in many discussions between Chinese medicine practitioners. The reason that these 2 points are so controversial is due to their sensitive anatomic location: Ren-1(Hui Yin) is located in the center of the perineum

Almost two years have passed since I moved to the Netherlands and here too already most of my patients suffer from vulvodynia, well, I can't avoid making comparisons. I’ve learned quickly that the Dutch love protocols, in every field. In the medical field, as under the oath, the approach is to first let the body recover on its own with as little invasive help as possible, so occasionally serious diagnoses are being missed, but statistically it works, and in the case of vulvod