Si 8 point chronic intermittent stingy pain

Generally speaking acupuncture is a not a direct point-to-condition modality so to speak. So while it can be clinically relevant, sensitivity at or near a particular acupuncture point, in your case SI 8, is most often not as related as people might think. Some of “What Does Acupuncture Treat?” gets into these issues. More than likely you have some ulnar nerve entrapment in there possibly from things like computer use, how you sit at your desk, etc. and it only seems to correlate at times with heartburn. It is possible with some poor gall bladder function, for example, which is often felt up under the right shoulder blade that you can irritate or hold tension in that area that exacerbates the ulnar nerve and you feel it around that point.

The best answer, of course, is to get proper acupuncture treatment, get your heartburn resolved which is generally easy to accomplish and then if it remains do some treatments for the neck and shoulder area to loosen on the constriction in that area.

If you look at some of the theory behind oriental medicine in general, pain in an area was historically more of an indication of a potential issue with the system reflected in that point. However much of that theory is no longer useful due to significant changes in modern lifestyles. While it is true that for some cases I’ve treated people have had discomfort at acupuncture points which reflected their particular symptoms they are by far a minority.