Single Points Flashcards
-4 cun below umbilicus
-Clear D-H + Stagnation (Qi)
Local Stagnation: amenorrhea d/t Blood Stasis
Ren 3 (Central Pole)
- Ren, Du, Chong crossing point
- benefits essence
Ren 1 (Meeting of Yin)
-Tonify Deficiency
-Tonify Yin
(Blood Xu, Body Fluid Xu) {any aspect of body fluids in body}
Ren 4 (Origin Pass)
Ren 3 vs. Ren 4
Ren 3 = Sedate Excess (also UB Xu Cold)
Ren 4 = Tonify Deficiency
- Tonify Qi and Yang
- Raise Yang Qi
- Regulate Qi: GI Tract
Ren 6 (Sea of Qi)
Ren 6 vs. Ren 17
Ren 6 = Move Qi in MJ, LJ
= Tonify Qi (whole body)
Ren 17 = Move Qi in UJ
- Moxa only
- Rescue Yang
- Strengthen Spleen
Ren 8 (Spirit Gate)
- Promotes transformation of fluids
- Controls the Water passages
- indication: Damp, edema, Tai-Yin, ascites
Ren 9 (Water Divide)
Water Metabolism points?
K7, SJ4, UB22, UB39, Sp9, Ren9, St28
- Pylorus (lower opening of St)
- Descends Qi
Ren 10
- Body (in stomach itself)
- Regulate Qi
- nausea, vomiting
- Food Stagnation
- Influential Point of Fu
- Front Mu of Stomach
Ren 12 (Central Venter)
- Fundus (Upper opening of Stomach)
- Descends Qi
- nausea, vomiting
- Food Stagnation
Ren 13
-palpitation, mental symptoms
(mania, hysteria, manic disorders)
-Front Mu point of Heart
Ren 14 (Great Tower Gate)
-itching of the abdominal skin
-Luo Connecting point of the Ren
-Calm the Mind
(emotional upset)
Ren 15 (Turtledove Tail)
-Regulate Zong Qi (circulation, respiration)
-Influential point of Qi
-Front Mu of Pericardium
-Local point: chest breast
(mastitis, poor milk supply)
Ren 17 (Chest Center)
Ren 17 and _____ point to regulate respiration.
Lung 9
Name the points level with the 4th Intercostal Space
Ren-17, K-23, St-17, Sp-18, P-1, GB-22/23
- Benefit the throat (itchy throat, esp. chronic sore throat)
- Soothe asthma
- Stop cough
- Hoarse voice, loss of voice
Ren 22 (Celestial Chimney)
Needling Technique Ren 22
- 2 cun perpendicular then…
0. 5-1 cun going down
- aphasia, slurred speech,dysphsia
- local point for tongue
Ren 23 (Ridge Spring)
Aphasia point combo
Ren 23 + Du 15
Ren 23 + H 5
- paralysis, bell’s palsy’s, windstroke
- local point for facial problem
Ren 24 (Sauce Receptacle)
- Regulate Du channel
- supporting point for rectal prolapse
Du 1(Long Strong)
- Basic point for lower backache
- any type of low back pain
Du 3 (Lumbar Yang Pass)