An Easy Fix

Sometimes, the best things in life are easy. A longtime client of SACHR came to me today with pain on the dorsum of her right foot. The poor woman had dropped a paper hole-puncher on it, and it had been hurting her for the whole week.
She told me that it would swell up, but that there was no bruise. Indeed, on examining her foot, the dorsum had a swollen, tight look to it, but there was no black and blue. The swelling would go down at night when she put her feet up, but would return, along with the pain, after getting up to walk around on it. The injury was localized along the Liver channel aspect of her foot.
Crucially, there were no broken bones. She had gone to the doctor and had X-rays taken which were negative for any kind of break.
Her pulse was wiry and choppy, and her tongue was unremarkable.
Basically, it came down to a pattern that one of my teachers back in PCOM thoroughly hated: Local Blood and Qi stagnation, albeit this time resulting from trauma. A Wu Yang patch would have been ideal, but we have none at SACHR.
Using TCM's theory of one body part reflected in another, I treated her with only three points; the most important being San Jiao 3, on the dorsum of her left hand. Essentially, this was treating one dorsum with its contralateral opposite. San Jiao 3 was particularly tender. Initially, I looked for tender points on her wrist, until I realized that I should be looking for a point that reflected the location of the trauma; hence, the use of the back of her left hand.
For good measure, I also used UB 60 and GB 41 on the affected foot, to move Qi and Blood.
The affect was almost immediate. Within a few minutes of needling, she reported that the pain was much reduced. At the end of the treatment, she walked out of the clinic without limping.