Also called: Niacin, Nia point, Vitamin B₃ point, नियासिन
Nia is the Neurotherapy (LMNT) point on the back of the left hip bone that is linked with niacin, vitamin B₃. Tenderness there is read as a prompt to think of a niacin shortage; the treatment is given lying on your right side and aims at digestion and absorption — it is never a substitute for a doctor's tests.
Nia is short for niacin, also called vitamin B₃. Niacin is turned in the body into helpers that almost every cell uses to release energy from food. A serious shortage, called pellagra, shows as a scaly rash where the sun reaches, loose motions and changes in the mind.
Nia is one of four vitamin points that sit on the rim of the hip bone — Folic and B₁₂ at the front, Thia and Nia at the back. The four behave as a family, and they are the points most likely to send a patient to a laboratory. The teaching links pain behind the left hip with niacin-deficiency symptoms.
The teaching is honest about what it claims. Niacin comes chiefly from food, so a shortage needs niacin. What this therapy works on is digestion and absorption — and as the digestive system is set right and the pain is drawn out of these points, the deficiency symptoms are reported to lessen.
During examination, Nia is the place just above the back of the left hip bone. Its mirror on the right is Thia, and in front of it on the same hip lies B₁₂.
For the treatment you lie on your right side, chest in its normal position, knees straight in line with the body, and a pillow between the thighs. The therapist works on the upper (left) hip — the same position as for B₁₂.
Nia is given by hand on the upper left hip: a press in the direction of the head that is released at once — nothing is held. Direction is what tells Nia apart from B₁₂, which is given in the same position but pressed towards the knees.
The presses come in short sets with rests between them, and the rests are part of the treatment: pressure squeezes blood out of the tissue and the release lets it flood back. The exact count, the rests and the hand placement are taught hands-on in the course, under a trained teacher.
The exact technique is taught hands-on in the Neurotherapy (LMNT) course. See the course →
No separate indication is written at the point itself. What the teaching says about niacin explains why the left hip is worked in the digestive formulas: niacin is needed for the glands to make and release their secretions.
The four vitamin points share one position and differ only by which side you lie on and which way the press travels.
The picture is read on the mat; the deficiency itself is confirmed by a doctor.
The twelve-part treatment in which all four vitamin points — Folic, Thia, B₁₂ and Nia — are given one after another.
Here the left hip is worked through Left Parkhoo for B₁₂ and niacin, after the stomach's acid signal.
Not by itself. It is a prompt to look further. A doctor decides whether there is a deficiency.
No — vitamins come mainly from food. The work is aimed at digestion and absorption, which help decide how much of the vitamin your body takes in.
Both are given lying on the right side on the left hip. Nia is pressed towards the head, B₁₂ towards the knees — that direction is the whole difference.
Severe niacin deficiency, pellagra, is remembered by doctors as the three Ds: dermatitis (a rash on sun-exposed skin), diarrhoea and dementia (confusion).
Source: Hegyi J, Schwartz RA, Hegyi V. Pellagra: dermatitis, dementia, and diarrhea. Int J Dermatol 2004;43:1–5.
Unusually, the body can make some niacin from tryptophan, an amino acid in protein foods — roughly sixty parts of tryptophan for one part of niacin. Good digestion of protein therefore matters for niacin too.
Source: Institute of Medicine. Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline. National Academies Press, 1998 (niacin).
Niacin becomes NAD, a helper molecule used in hundreds of the body's chemical reactions that release energy from food.
Source: Guyton & Hall, Medical Physiology, 14th ed. (niacin and NAD).
This page explains what a Neurotherapy (LMNT) treatment is for; it is not a self-treatment guide and does not diagnose. Neurotherapy (LMNT) works alongside your medical care — keep taking the medicines your doctor prescribed.
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