0 present participle of needle
1 to annoy someone, especially by repeated criticism:
This well-known text passage links the manipulation of qi to needling.
So, needling was advocated when there were oscillations, or inversions of qi in chest or abdomen.
Much of this could be called light banter, mixed with a lot of not ver y pleasant needling.
Any needling of one another, and, particularly, any acts of lawlessness, will tend to perpetuate an atmosphere in which a referendum is impossible.
He speaks well about these problems and it is a pity that he spoils his contributions by the needling tendency that he shows so often.
A new method for quantifying the needling component of acupuncture treatments.
Acupuncturists generally practice acupuncture as an overall system of care, which includes using traditional diagnostic techniques, acupuncture needling, and other adjunctive treatments.
However, the originators and proponents of dry needling acknowledged the origin and inspiration of this technique to be acupuncture.
