Commonly used formulas for acupuncture
1. Dazhi, Quchi, Hegu
Functions: Removing wind and relieving symptoms, harmonizing Ying and Wei.
Main treatment: external sensation of six evil spirits on the surface of the evidence, malaria and some febrile diseases.
It unifies the Yang energy of the whole body and is the master of the table. Quchi and Hegu are the points of the original hand Yangming, the main gasification and can conduct, help the Dazhi and harmonize the Ying and Wei, so clearing the lane and reaching the table. If the body is hot and sweating, then diarrhea Dazhi to relieve the muscle. If there is no sweating and vicious cold, it can supplement Dazhi to publish. For malaria, cold and heat, it can harmonize Ying and Wei. In deficiency labor and bone vapor, night sweating, has the effect of nourishing Yin and clearing heat.
2. Hegu, Quchi, Waiguan
Functions: Clearing heat and dispersing wind, promoting the upper jiao
Headache, cheek swelling, tinnitus, deafness, vomiting blood, epistaxis, wrist and knuckle pain, chest pain, etc.
The formula is based on the following principles: Quchi is a walking point, Hegu is a rising point and floats upward; Waiguan is the contact point of Shaoyang, one of the eight channels, and passes through the Yangwei channel. The three points together, for the treatment of the head and face, the evidence of the five senses is real, really effective.
3. Hegu and Fuyao
Function: To induce sweating and stop sweating.
Indications: For sweating evidence (spontaneous sweating, no sweating) of surface deficiency and surface reality.
The formula: Fuyao belongs to the kidney meridian points, tonic can warm the kidney and strengthen yang, external guard and solid surface, diarrhea Hegu can clear the heat, heat clear surface solid and stop sweating; tonic Hegu lightly go to the surface and hold the evil, diarrhea Fuyao Xuanfu is not solid, so the sweating.
4. Baihui, Shuigou, Fengfu
Function: Awakening the mind and opening the orifices
Indications: All acute fainting spells
The formula means: Baihui is the meeting of the Hand and Foot Sanyang, the Governor’s Vessel and the Conjunctive Yin Liver Vessel, with the function of clearing the Yang and calming the mind, relieving the Conjunctive Yin tendon and clearing the mind. Shuigou is the rendezvous point of the Directing Vessel and the Yangming meridian of the hands and feet. The Directing Vessel is the sea of all the yang, and Yangming is the meridian of much qi and blood. Fengfu is the meeting point of the Sun meridian, Yangwei and the Governor’s meridian, and this point is pricked to search the brain for wind. The combination of the three acupuncture points can open the orifices immediately, and then wake up, speak freely and turn danger into peace.
5. Shoulder k, Quchi (the main formula for the upper limbs)
Function: Drain Qi and blood, search for wind and remove dampness.
Indications: All the evidence of meridians and collaterals, Qi and blood obstruction, such as stroke, paralysis and other upper limb disorders.
The two points belong to Yangming, shoulder k can be unblocked, Quchi is not guarded, so all the upper limbs of the meridian guest evil, Qi and blood stagnation can be treated.
6, ring jump, Yanglingquan (the main formula for treating the lower limbs)
Function: Drain tendons and joints, harmonize qi and blood
Main treatment: lower limb disorders such as stroke, paralysis, impotence, etc.
The two points belong to the foot Shao Yang meridian and are capable of relaxing and dispersing. Yanglingquan is also a tendon meeting, which has the function of soothing the tendons and sharpening the joints, and Huanjiao searches the wind in the meridians.
7, Quchi, Yanglingquan
Function: Shu tendons and joints, clearing and draining
Indications: paralysis of the upper and lower limbs, pain in the thorax and hypochondrium, abdominal distension and cloudiness of the stomach and intestines due to heat.
The formula: Quchi and Yanglingquan live in the elbow and knee, both belong to the large joints, the elbow Quchi moves qi and blood through the meridians, clearing the lung and walking the table. Yanglingquan can also relax the tendons and joints, drain the liver and gallbladder clear, is the function of the party to promote the descent, and can be divided into turbidity and fire, liver and lung gas depression chest pain, or heat in the intestines and stomach, abdominal distension and turbidity, by which the clearing and draining.
8, Quchi, Sanyinjiao
Function: Clearing heat and cooling the blood, removing blood stasis and generating new blood
Women with menorrhagia, oozing and bleeding, accumulation of toxic sores, all kinds of swelling and pain, S fever syncope.
formula: Quchi is a wandering and channeling point, good at clearing heat and searching wind, while Sanyinjiao is the meeting of the Sanyin meridian, the hub of the liver, spleen and kidney, and is an important point for treating the Blood. By combining the two points, the stagnation and heat toxicity of the Blood will be cleared.
9.Shan San Li and San Yin Jiao
Function: Benefiting Qi and nourishing Yin, strengthening the spleen and replenishing deficiency.
Indications: deficiency of the spleen and stomach, lack of food and grain, poor diet, weakness of the body, vomiting or diarrhea, numbness and pain in the legs and feet.
The formula is based on San Li to raise Yang and benefit the stomach, and San Yin Jiao to nourish Yin and strengthen the spleen, which are indispensable in the treatment of deficiency. The stomach is strong and the spleen is weak, Yang is hyperactive and Yin is deficient, replenishing Sanyinjiao and diarrhea of the foot is in the middle of replenishing Yin and at the same time moving clear. Yang deficiency and lack of Qi, wind and dampness guest evil into paralysis, numbness and pain in the legs and shins from time to time, one to invigorate Yang, one to and Yin, it has the function of soothing the tendons and paralysis.
10.Yanglingquan, feet three li
Functions: harmonizing the liver and spleen, soothing the liver and strengthening the stomach
Treating symptoms of liver and stomach disharmony, such as acid swallowing and bitterness in the mouth, diarrhea and vomiting, and impotence and paralysis of the lower limbs.
Yanglingquan is a joint point of the bile meridian, diarrhea is used to purify the clean house, calm the rebellious liver fire, clear the bile house, bile enters the stomach, dissolve food and eliminate stagnation; Sanli is a joint point of the stomach house, diarrhea Sanli is used to guide the turbid Qi in the stomach, so that the turbid Yin can be lowered and the clear Yang can be generated. Yanglingquan is the tendon meeting of the whole body, which has the power to relieve tendons and joints, search for wind and dispel dampness; foot Sanli has the power to activate blood and permeate dampness and disperse cold, which can treat all kinds of paralysis, knee pain, tendon contracture and joint, impotence and L foot.
11.Hegu, Taichong
Functions: Promoting the flow of Qi and Blood, calming the liver and quenching the wind
Indications: epilepsy and madness, hand and foot convulsions, pediatric convulsions, stroke coma, inability to open the mouth, etc.
The two points are the main points of Qi and Blood circulation, therefore they are the main formula for treating Qi and Blood disorders.
12. Fenglong and Yanglingquan
Function: Lowering the rebellion and clearing the bowels
Indication: constipation
The two points used together have the function of bearing qi without the steepness of bearing qi, which is a very safe treatment for constipation.
13, Qihai, Tianshu (main lower abdominal disorders)
Functions: tonifying the kidneys and strengthening Yang, directing stagnation and clearing turbidity
Indications: abdominal pain, abdominal distension, intestinal tinnitus, diarrhea, hernia, spermatorrhea, impotence, urinary disorders, menstrual disorders in women.
Directions: Qi Hai is the main point of the Ren Vessel, which is the origin of the Qi of this meridian, the sea of vital energy, the meeting of Qi and blood, the root of respiration, and the house of essence, so it is the main point of the lower jiao. Needle should be supplemented, as if the bottom of the kettle to add fuel, steam does not decline. Tianshu is good at distributing water and grain, absorbing essence, transmitting dregs, and clearing and directing turbid Qi. The combination of the two points can invigorate Yang energy in the lower jiao, clear turbidity and guide stagnation, which is very suitable for accumulating cold and chronic cold in the lower jiao.
14, Zhongshang and Shusanli (for upper abdominal disorders)
Functions: drying dampness and strengthening the spleen, raising Yang and benefiting the stomach
Indications: deficiency cold in the stomach, dietary incontinence, distension and pain in the abdomen, accumulation of phlegm or phlegm stoppage, food stoppage, persistent drink, lumps, cholera, etc.
Meaning of the formula: middle and upper stomach is the ruler, ruling the diseases of the six internal organs. In case of deficiency, the tonic method is used to strengthen stomach qi, disperse its cold evil and regulate the middle qi. The diarrhea of the epigastrium is to remove the stagnation, lower the stomach qi, raise the spleen qi, and remove the vomiting and other evidence. Taking Sanli as a minister is because it has the ability to raise Yang and benefit the stomach, which can help the middle epigastric to calm the stomach and benefit the spleen. The two points are combined as the ruler and minister of the formula, which is really clinically useful.
15, Neiguan, Sanyinjiao
Function: Nourishing Yin and clearing heat
Treating Yin deficiency and strain, such as bone steaming and night sweating, dry cough, blood loss, menstrual emission and menorrhagia.
The formula means: Nei Guan clears the heart and chest, and benefits the three jiao; San Yin Jiao nourishes Yin and blood, and crosses the heart and kidneys, which indeed has the function of crossing the Kan Li.
16.Yuji, Taixi
Function: Nourishing the kidney and clearing the lung
Indications: deficiency labor and bone stagnation, cough, hemoptysis.
The formula is to clear the fire in the lung and nourish the yin in the kidney, so that the fire will not be inflamed and the gold will not be grasped.
17.Hegu, Foot San Li
Function: Regulating the middle Jiao, promoting the stomach
Treating: Yang clearing down, weakness of stomach qi, lack of fragrance in the stomach, congestion of damp heat, stagnation of filth in the middle jiao, stagnation of food and drinks, abdominal distension and obscenity.
Directions: Hegu is the original point of the large intestine, which can lift and ventilate. Sanli is a joint point of the stomach meridian, which can benefit the qi to raise the clear, and the diarrhea to pass the yang to lower the turbidity. Both points belong to Yang Ming, one hand and one foot, the upper and lower corresponding, intestines and stomach and regulate, if the clear yang sinks, the stomach is weak, the grain is not smooth, then supplement San Li, should hegu to ascend the sinking yang, so that the stomach is sufficient to eat and drink. If dampness and heat congestion, turbidity stagnation in the middle jiao, so that the food is stored and stop drinking, abdominal distension and retching, then diarrhea San Li, leading the large intestine and valley down, to guide turbidity and lower the rebellion, the natural and smooth Qi.
18.Lau Kung, Foot San Li
Function: Clearing the fire of the heart and stomach, opening the chest and lowering the rebellion
Treating: typhoid chest, stuffiness and fullness, yelp and acid swallowing, vomiting and dry retching, tiredness and sleepiness.
It can clear the heat in the upper part of the chest and diaphragm and direct the fire downward; with the foot three li, it can force down the evil heat from the middle jiao, clear the upper part and descend, which is really wonderful.
19.Dazhi and Neiguan
Function: Regulating Qi and moving water, expelling drinks and lowering rebellion
Treating: fullness of the chest and diaphragm, asthma and cough, phlegm, water in the chest and diaphragm, etc.
The formula: drink is water evil, stopping between the chest and epigastric, upward rebellion is lung fullness, chest congestion, cough and gas rebellion, but stopping water is always responsible for the San Jiao, because it is the official of the decision, the water channel out of it, and the San Jiao is the body cavity oil membrane, running water and fluid road, fluid evaporation is from the San Jiao subordinate bladder, so that the decision is smooth, water does not stay in the problem. The large vertebrae belong to the Governor’s Vessel, the three yang of the hands and feet will regulate the sun’s qi, yang qi pass, then water from the benefit, and the performance of broadening the chest and lowering the qi. The Nei Guan point is the hand of the heart of the main hand of the fructus yin, don’t take the hand of the lesser yang, declare the heart of the yang and retreat the group of yin, the oil membrane and through the blockage is smooth, drinking evil can be removed.
20.Shaoshang, Shanyang, Hegu
Function: Clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting lung and throat
Treating: Taiyin-Yangming internal heat, up the throat, swelling and pain in the throat. In pediatrics, internal heat attacking the lungs and external infection, cough and fever.
Directions: Shaoshang is a Taiyin well point on the hand, with the property of decongesting lung heat. Shang Yang is at the end of the finger and is the well point of Yang Ming on the hand, which can relieve heat. The two points are punctured and bleeding, and have the effect of harmonizing and clearing the Xinxing. Hegu is the original point of Hand Yangming, it can clear the upper Jiao guest heat, and has the function of extracting heat from the bottom of the pot. (This formula is very effective for children with fever, cough, breast moth, mumps, etc.)
21, Yin Bai, Zhong Gui
Functions: strengthening the spleen, tonifying Qi, raising Yang and lifting sockets
Indications: Spleen and Yang deficiency, abdominal distension, diarrhea, deficiency of middle energy, tiredness and weakness, loss of appetite, menstrual disorders in women, menstrual bleeding and leakage, red and white belt and other diseases.
It is a well point of the foot Taiyin Spleen meridian, which is rooted in Yin Bai and knotted in Taicang (Zhonghua), and has the function of tonifying the spleen and stomach and regulating Qi and blood. Zhongbei is a meridian point of the Ren meridian, a point for the stomach and a meeting of the internal organs. It is a combination of meridian connection and relationship between the internal organs and the internal organs. Therefore, it is effective in strengthening the spleen and stomach, tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, eliminating food and dissolving drinks, and raising the clear and lowering the turbidity.
22, Dadun, Guan Yuan
Functions: soothing the liver and warming the menstruation, regulating the lower jiao, expelling cold and dampness, returning to the syncope
Various kinds of hernia, women’s yin, abdominal pain, epilepsy, urinary emission, inability to pass stool.
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23.San Yin Jiao and Zhi Yin
Functions: Promoting the lower jiao, regulating qi and removing blood stasis
Difficult delivery, stillbirth, unreturned fetal position, menorrhagia, etc.
Directions: Zhiyin is the well point of the foot solar bladder meridian. The well is the source of the meridian qi, like the source of water. The bladder and kidneys are in close proximity to each other. Moxibustion and pricking of Zhiyin can regulate the qi of the lower jiao and remove stasis and create new energy. Three yin jiao is the foot of the three yin jiao points, is the hub of the three yin, so the two points together, can regulate the qi and blood, promote the lower jiao, benefit yin and downward. Fu Qingzhu said: “Difficult labor is due to blood deficiency.” Difficult labor is due to Qi deficiency”. If the Qi rebellion is regulated and the Blood deficiency is tonified, the fetus can not be born. (Clinical combination of tonifying Guan Yuan and diarrhea of Foot San Li can bring down stillbirth and be effective.)
24.Yufu and Yunmen
Functions: purging the lung and lowering rebellion, relieving cough and asthma
Cough, asthma, stuffy heat in the chest, shortness of breath, vomiting and dullness.
Although both points are located high in the chest, their meridians travel differently: the lung meridian of Taiyin goes from the chest to the hand, while the kidney meridian of Shaoyin goes from the foot to the chest. The hand goes from the chest to the hand, and the foot goes from the foot to the chest. The evidence of coughing and shortness of breath, its surface in the lung, its origin in the kidney, lung and kidney disease. The lung is affected by evil, then cough, kidney deficiency does not receive, the gas does not return to the root and rebellious up for asthma, so take the Yunmen, the lung qi, smooth the chest and lower the rebellion, take the Yufu kidney nourishing qi, converge the punch and lower the rebellion. If we add taking milk root, to strengthen the power of anxious impulse to lower the rebellion, smooth the Yang meridian qi, help Yunmen to proclaim and descend, Yu Fu to converge.
25.Qi Hai, Guan Yuan, Zhong Ji, Zi Gong
Functions: nourishing blood, regulating menstruation, nourishing the true essence, tonifying the vital gate, warming the uterus, regulating the menstrual belt, and nurturing children
Indications: deficiency and coldness of the uterus, occlusion of the uterine gate, prolonged failure to conceive, yin shrinkage and impotence, abdominal pain and fullness, transfer of cells.
Directions: The four points belong to the Ren Vessel, with the uterus under the Zhongji. The Ren Vessel travels from the Huiyin to the abdomen, the Du Vessel travels from the Huiyin to the back, and the Chong Vessel travels from the Huiyin to the kidney meridian, so it is one element and three manifold. The sea of qi, the sea of anger, yuan qi by the deposit. Guan Yuan, men hide sperm, women store blood. Zhongji is the meeting point of the three Yin meridians and the Ren Vessel, and is the gateway to the uterus. The uterus, that is, the woman’s blood chamber. Therefore, take Qihai, to benefit the lower yuan; Guan Yuan, to fill the essence and blood; Zhongji, to regulate the menstruation and open the door; and the uterus, to treat its symptoms. Synergistic with the upper points, together with the effect of nourishing the blood and regulating menstruation, peiyuan warming the uterus.
26. Shen Que, Qi Hai, Tian Shu, Shui Shui
Functions: warming the navel and dispersing cold, returning Yang and benefiting Qi
Indications: deficiency cold in the lower yuan, cold pain in the navel and abdomen, cholera and vomiting and diarrhea, stroke, phlegm, phlegm syncope, slow frightening wind in children.
Directions: These five points are also known as navel plum points. Shen Que is a point of the Ren Vessel, which can pass through the organs and return to Yang to save the emergency. Tianshu is the foot Yangming Stomach meridian, the collection of the large intestine, turning dregs, separating the clear and turbid. Qihai is the sea of vital energy, tonifying the kidneys and returning Yang. Shuifen is the point of the Ren channel, which strengthens the spleen and relieves dampness and distributes water and grain. The five points are complementary to each other to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, warm the middle and rescue the rebellious. Add Tiantu and Zhonggui to lower Qi and remove phlegm and treat vomiting.
27, Shouze, Zhizhong
Function: Clearing blood toxins and dispersing obscenities.
Indications: cholera, distress and confusion, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, dysentery, etc.
Shou Ze is a joint point of Hand Shao Yin Lung meridian, with five elements of water, which is connected to the heart and has the function of eliminating blood poison. Zhizhong is a joint point of the Foot Sun Bladder meridian, with the five elements of earth. This point is used to treat the evil of summer heat, which first offends the Sun. The location of the two points, one at the elbow and one at the knee, is where the great blood vessels are located, so they can stab and bleed. Wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness, fire and other epidemics such as miasma and pestilence first offend the Sun and are transmitted to Taiyin, so the two meridians are stabbed to bring out the poisonous blood. If you add Jinjin and Yuyu, it will help to produce fluid and stop vomiting; Shaochong and Zhongchong, it will calm the mind and tranquilize the spirit; if you add Baihui, it will wake up the brain and open the orifice;
28.Shanli
Function: Promoting clearing and lowering turbidity, directing phlegm and moving stagnation, supporting the righteousness and cultivating vitality
Treating: all diseases of the middle Jiao, such as stomach pain, abdominal distension, cold stagnation, lumps, enuresis, eye diseases, canker sores, palpitations, numbness of the fingers, epilepsy, dirty mania, stroke, Yang Ming heat, deficiency labor, thinness, physical weakness, etc.
The internal organs and limbs depend on qi and blood for nourishment, and without stomach qi, they die. The stomach is the essence of the posterior, the sea of water and grain, the main consumption, the stomach is strong, the grain from the smooth, nutrition can be from the week, otherwise the dirty gas is not nourished, and the life is extinct. The foot three li belongs to the stomach point, the pivot of the meridian, can strengthen the person’s Yang, and can also supplement the loss of Qi and blood, such as the accumulation of cold Qi obstruction, its function is warm and can be transformed, dampness and turbidity diffuse swelling, can dry and can be eliminated, and can be used with Chinese medicine to supplement the formula of rising Yang.
29.Sanyinjiao
Functions: strengthening the spleen and benefiting Qi, nourishing the liver and kidney, promoting dampness and draining stagnation, draining menstruation and regulating Qi
Indications: stomach pain, abdominal distension, indigestion, intestinal tinnitus, loose diarrhea, jaundice, thirst, dizziness, insomnia, impotence, spermatorrhea, hernia, enuresis, blood in urine, dysuria, edema, swelling and pain in the pubic region, hypertension, obstruction of the intestines, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, collapse, dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorders, paralysis, foot problems, etc. Pregnant women are prohibited from acupuncture.
Directions: Sanyinjiao is the meeting point of the three yin of the foot and is extremely widely used as the main point for treating gastrointestinal, reproductive, urinary system and gynecological diseases, and is also commonly used for lower limb diseases.
30.Yinliang (new point)
Function: Clears the throat, opens and closes the orifice
Positioning: anterior median line, slight concavity between the lower edge of the thyroid cartilage and the upper edge of the cricoid cartilage.
Indications: Swelling and pain in the throat, loss of voice, aphasia.
Directions: The acupoint is above the Ren channel and before the pharynx, so it can treat localized diseases of the pharynx.
31, Thirteen Ghost Points
Components: Renzhong, Shaoshang, Yinbai, Daling, Shen, Fengfu, Cheoche, Chengjiao
Laogong, Shangxing, Huiyin, Quchi, under the tongue
Functions: opening the orifice, resolving phlegm, clearing the mind, calming the heart and benefiting the will
Indication: Epilepsy
The “Thirteen Ghost Points” are important acupuncture points for treating epilepsy and madness, and were created by Bian Magpie during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao built on these points and “added more points for the intervening and Houxi”, for a total of 15 points. These acupoints have become the main prescriptions for the treatment of epilepsy and madness for many generations of doctors. These points include Renzhong, Fengfu, Shangxing, and Houxi, which are used to clear the mind by dipping the Yang of the Directing Vessel; Daling, the original point of the Hand Convulsive Yin meridian, and the intervening points, which are used to clear the fire of the pericardium and calm the mind and benefit the will; Quchi and Chee Che, both of the Hand and Foot Yangming meridians, which are used to channel the Yangming meridian and clear the heat from the internal organs; Shaoshang and Yinbai, both of the Well points of the Hand and Foot Taiyin meridians, which are used to clear the lungs and strengthen the spleen and dissolve phlegm; and Chengjue and Huiyin, both of the Ren Vessel, which are used to ventilate the Yin Vessel and nourish the Yin and lower the fire. It nourishes Yin and lowers fire. The points under the tongue (tongue is the seedling of the heart) are taken to clear the heart meridian and open the orifice to clear the mind. The combined use of these points can open the orifices and clear the phlegm, awaken the brain and clear the mind, and calm the mind and benefit the will. Therefore, for epilepsy and madness, the “Thirteen Ghost Points” can be used to obtain good results.
32, Daling
Function: Regulating Qi and relieving pain.
Indication: Heel pain
This formula is based on the principle of “taking the lower disease upward” and “cross-meridian mu-prick”, and is very effective in treating heel pain.
33.Hegu and Zhongzhu
Function: Regulating Qi and clearing meridians, soothing tendons and activating collaterals.
Indication: Finger flexion and non-extension.
The two points are located on the back of the hand, so they can treat localized pathologies.
34. Foot San Li and Cheng Shan
Functions: tonifying the intestines and stomach, relaxing tendons and resolving stasis
Indications: Blood hemorrhoids, dysentery, painful stasis in the chest and abdomen, cholera and tendon rotation.
The formula: Chengshan is a point of the foot solar bladder meridian, whose meridians run down from the back of the spine, and the bladder and kidney are on the same level, so it can harmonize the intestines and abdomen and regulate the qi of the lower jiao. Foot San Li is a joint point of the Foot Yang Ming Stomach meridian, whose meridians flow down from the chest and abdomen, and are superimposed on the spleen, thus relieving stagnant Qi in the chest and abdomen. Therefore, the combination of the two points can harmonize the intestines and stomach. When the stomach and intestines are harmonized, the heat and toxicity are cleared, and the dysentery and hemorrhoids can be healed. When the spleen and stomach are healthy, fluid is produced, the tendons are nourished, the tendons are restored, stagnation is eliminated, qi and blood are regulated, and the pain will stop.
35.San Yin Jiao, Zhi Yin
Function: Promoting the circulation of the lower jiao, regulating qi and removing blood stasis.
Indications: obstructed labor, stillbirth, unreturning of the uterine garment, change of fetal position, menorrhagia, etc.
Directions: Zhiyin is the well point of the foot solar bladder meridian. The well is the source of the qi of the meridian, like water. The bladder and kidneys are in close proximity to each other. Moxibustion and pricking of Zhiyin can regulate the qi of the lower jiao and remove stasis and create new energy. Three yin jiao is the foot of the three yin jiao points, is also the hub of the three yin. Therefore, the two points together can regulate qi and nourish blood, promote the lower jiao qi, and benefit yin and downward movement. Fu Qingzhu said: difficult labor due to blood deficiency. Difficult labor is due to Qi deficiency. If the Qi reversal is regulated and the Blood deficiency is tonified, the fetus will not be born.
36.Huanjiao, Fengshi, Yanglingquan
Effects: Promoting circulation, dispelling wind and dampness, relieving paralysis and pain, and relieving tendons and joints.
Stroke, paralysis and pain, numbness, shrinking of tendons, spasm, impotence and other lower limb disorders.
Directions: Huanjiao is the meeting point of the bladder of the foot Shaoyang gallbladder meridian and the foot sun meridian, and is used to remit paralysis and dispel wind and dampness; Fengshi is used to search for wind and relieve dampness. Yanglingquan is a joint point of the Shaoyang Gallbladder meridian, and is the meeting point of the tendons around the body, so it is an important point to relax the tendons and activate the joints, and is also one of the common points for treating liver and gallbladder disorders. It is also one of the most commonly used points in the treatment of liver and gall bladder disorders. The combination of the three points is effective in relieving impotence and paralysis. They are also useful for the lower back, lower extremities, and lower extremities, and have the power of a general.
Classic Acupuncture Points
1. Dazhi, Quchi, Hegu
Function: Removing wind and relieving symptoms, harmonizing Ying and Wei.
Indications: External sensation of six evil spirits on the surface, malaria and some febrile diseases.
It unifies the Yang energy of the whole body and is the master of the table. Quchi and Hegu are the points of the original hand Yangming, the main gasification and can conduct, help the Dazhi and harmonize the Ying and Wei, so clearing the lane and reaching the table. If the body is hot and sweating, then diarrhea Dazhi to relieve the muscle. If there is no sweating and vicious cold, it can supplement Dazhi to publish. For malaria, cold and heat, it can harmonize Ying and Wei. In deficiency labor bone vapor, night sweating, has the effect of nourishing Yin and clearing heat.
2.Hegu, Quchi, Waiguan
Function: Clearing heat and dispersing wind, promoting the upper jiao
Headache, cheek swelling, tinnitus, deafness, vomiting blood, epistaxis, wrist and knuckle pain, chest pain, etc.
The formula is based on the following principles: Quchi is a walking point, Hegu is a rising point and floats upward; Waiguan is the contact point of Shaoyang, one of the eight channels, and passes through the Yangwei channel. The three points together, for the treatment of the head and face, the evidence of the five senses is real, really effective.
3. Hegu and Fuyao
Function: To induce sweating and stop sweating.
Indications: For sweating evidence (spontaneous sweating, no sweating) of surface deficiency and surface reality.
The formula: Fuyao belongs to the kidney meridian points, tonic can warm the kidney and strengthen yang, the external guard to fix the surface, diarrhea Hegu can clear the heat, the heat clear the surface to fix and stop sweating; tonic Hegu lightly go to the surface and hold the evil, diarrhea Fuyao Xuanfu is not fixed, so sweating.
4.Baihui, Shuigou, Fengfu
Function: Awakening the mind and opening the orifices
Indications: All acute fainting spells
The formula means: Baihui is the meeting of the Hand and Foot Sanyang, the Governor’s Vessel and the Conjunctive Yin Liver Vessel, with the function of clearing the Yang and calming the mind, relieving the Conjunctive Yin tendons and clearing the mind. Shuigou is the rendezvous point of the Directing Vessel and the Yangming meridian of the hands and feet. The Directing Vessel is the sea of all the yang, and Yangming is the meridian of much qi and blood. Fengfu is the meeting point of the Sun meridian, Yangwei and the Governor’s meridian, and this point is pricked to search the brain for wind. The three acupuncture points together can open the orifices immediately, and then wake up, speak freely and turn danger into peace.
5. Shoulder k, Quchi (main formula for upper limbs)
Function: Drain Qi and blood, search wind and remove dampness
Indications: All the evidence of meridians and collaterals, Qi and blood obstruction, such as stroke, paralysis and other upper limb disorders.
Directions: Both points belong to Yangming, shoulder k can be unblocked, and Quchi can be unblocked, so all the upper limbs can be treated.
6, ring jump, Yanglingquan (the main formula for treating the lower limbs)
Function: Drain tendons and joints, harmonize qi and blood
Main treatment: lower limb disorders such as stroke, paralysis, impotence, etc.
The two points belong to the foot Shao Yang meridian and are capable of relaxing and dispersing. Yanglingquan is also a tendon meeting, which has the function of soothing the tendons and sharpening the joints, and Huanjiao searches the wind in the meridians.
7, Quchi, Yanglingquan
Function: Shu tendons and joints, clearing and draining
Indications: paralysis of the upper and lower limbs, pain in the thorax and hypochondrium, abdominal distension and cloudiness of the stomach and intestines due to heat.
The formula: Quchi and Yanglingquan live in the elbow and knee, both belong to the large joints, the elbow Quchi moves qi and blood through the meridians, clearing the lung and walking the table. Yanglingquan can also stretch the tendons and joints, drain the liver and gallbladder clear, is the function of the party to promote the descent, but also can be divided into turbid diarrhea, liver and lung gas depression chest pain, or heat in the intestines and stomach, abdominal distension and turbidity, through the clearing and draining.
8, Quchi, Sanyinjiao
Function: Clearing heat and cooling the blood, removing blood stasis and generating new blood
Indications: women with menstrual cramps, oozing and leaking, sore accumulation, all kinds of swelling and pain, S fever syncope.
formula: Quchi is a wandering and channeling point, good at clearing heat and searching wind, while Sanyinjiao is the meeting of the Sanyin meridian, the hub of the liver, spleen and kidney, and is an important point for treating the Blood. By combining the two points, the blood stagnation and heat toxicity will be cleared.
9.Shan San Li and San Yin Jiao
Function: Benefiting Qi and nourishing Yin, strengthening the spleen and replenishing deficiency.
Indications: deficiency of the spleen and stomach, lack of food, poor diet, weakness of the body, vomiting or diarrhea, numbness and pain in the legs and feet.
The formula is based on San Li to raise Yang and benefit the stomach, and San Yin Jiao to nourish Yin and strengthen the spleen, which are indispensable in the treatment of deficiency. The stomach is strong and the spleen is weak, Yang is hyperactive and Yin is deficient, replenishing Sanyinjiao and diarrhea of the foot is in the middle of replenishing Yin and at the same time moving clear. Yang deficiency and lack of Qi, wind and dampness guest evil into paralysis, numbness and pain in the legs and shins from time to time, one to invigorate Yang, one to and Yin, it has the function of soothing the tendons and paralysis.
10.Yanglingquan, feet three li
Functions: harmonizing the liver and spleen, soothing the liver and strengthening the stomach
Treating symptoms of liver and stomach disharmony, such as acid swallowing and bitterness in the mouth, diarrhea and vomiting, and impotence and paralysis of the lower limbs.
Yanglingquan is a joint point of the bile meridian, diarrhea is used to purify the clean house, calm the rebellious liver fire, clear the bile house, bile enters the stomach, dissolve food and eliminate stagnation; Sanli is a joint point of the stomach house, diarrhea Sanli is used to guide the turbid Qi in the stomach, so that the turbid Yin can be lowered and the clear Yang can be generated. Yanglingquan is the tendon meeting of the whole body, which has the power to relieve tendons and joints, search for wind and dispel dampness; foot Sanli has the power to activate blood and permeate dampness and disperse cold, which can treat all kinds of paralysis, knee pain, tendon contracture and joint, impotence and L foot.
11.Hegu, Taichong
Functions: Promoting the flow of Qi and Blood, calming the liver and quenching the wind
Indications: epilepsy and madness, hand and foot convulsions, pediatric convulsions, stroke coma, inability to open the mouth, etc.
The two points are the main points of Qi and Blood circulation, therefore they are the main formula for treating Qi and Blood disorders.
12. Fenglong and Yanglingquan
Function: Lowering the rebellion and clearing the bowels
Indication: constipation
The two points used together have the function of bearing qi without the steepness of bearing qi, which is a very safe treatment for constipation.
13, Qihai, Tianshu (main lower abdominal disorders)
Functions: tonifying the kidneys and strengthening Yang, directing stagnation and clearing turbidity
Indications: abdominal pain, abdominal distension, intestinal tinnitus, diarrhea, hernia, spermatorrhea, impotence, urinary disorders, menstrual disorders in women.
Directions: Qi Hai is the main point of the Ren Vessel, which is the origin of the Qi of this meridian, the sea of vital energy, the meeting of Qi and blood, the root of respiration, and the house of essence, so it is the main point of the lower jiao. Needle should be supplemented, as if the bottom of the kettle to add fuel, steam does not decline. Tianshu is good at distributing water and grain, absorbing essence, transmitting dregs, and clearing and directing turbid Qi. The combination of the two points can invigorate Yang energy in the lower jiao, clear turbidity and guide stagnation, which is very suitable for accumulating cold and chronic cold in the lower jiao.
14, Zhongshang and Shusanli (for upper abdominal disorders)
Functions: drying dampness and strengthening the spleen, raising Yang and benefiting the stomach
Indications: deficiency cold in the stomach, dietary incontinence, distension and pain in the abdomen, accumulation of phlegm or phlegm stoppage, food stoppage, persistent drink, lumps, cholera, etc.
Meaning of the formula: middle and upper stomach is the ruler, ruling the diseases of the six internal organs. In case of deficiency, the tonic method is used to strengthen stomach qi, disperse its cold evil and regulate the middle qi. The diarrhea of the epigastrium is to remove the stagnation, lower the stomach qi, raise the spleen qi, and remove the vomiting and other evidence. Taking Sanli as a minister is because it has the ability to raise Yang and benefit the stomach, which can help the middle epigastric to calm the stomach and benefit the spleen. The two points are combined as the ruler and minister of the formula, which is really clinically useful.
15, Neiguan, Sanyinjiao
Function: Nourishing Yin and clearing heat
Treating Yin deficiency and strain, such as bone steaming and night sweating, dry cough, blood loss, menstrual emission and menorrhagia.
The formula means: Nei Guan clears the heart and chest, and benefits the three jiao; San Yin Jiao nourishes Yin and blood, and crosses the heart and kidneys, which indeed has the function of crossing the Kan Li.
16.Yuji, Taixi
Function: Nourishing the kidney and clearing the lung
Indications: deficiency labor and bone stagnation, cough, hemoptysis.
The formula is to clear the fire in the lung and nourish the yin in the kidney, so that the fire will not be inflamed and the gold will not be grasped.
17.Hegu, Foot San Li
Function: Regulating the middle Jiao, promoting the stomach
Treating: Yang clearing down, weakness of stomach qi, lack of fragrance in the stomach, congestion of damp heat, stagnation of filth in the middle jiao, stagnation of food and drinks, abdominal distension and obscenity.
Directions: Hegu is the original point of the large intestine, which can lift and ventilate. Sanli is a joint point of the stomach meridian, which can benefit the qi to raise the clear, and the diarrhea to pass the yang to lower the turbidity. Both points belong to Yang Ming, one hand and one foot, the upper and lower corresponding, intestines and stomach and regulate, if the clear yang sinks, the stomach is weak, the grain is not smooth, then supplement San Li, should hegu to ascend the sinking yang, so that the stomach is sufficient to eat and drink. If dampness and heat congestion, turbidity stagnation in the middle jiao, so that the food is stored and stop drinking, abdominal distension and retching, then diarrhea San Li, leading the large intestine and valley down, to guide turbidity and lower the rebellion, the natural and smooth Qi.
18.Lau Kung, Foot San Li
Function: Clearing the fire of the heart and stomach, opening the chest and lowering the rebellion
Treating: typhoid chest, stuffiness and fullness, yelp and acid swallowing, vomiting and dry retching, tiredness and sleepiness.
It can clear the heat in the upper part of the chest and diaphragm and direct the fire downward; together with the foot three li, it can force down the evil heat from the middle jiao, clear the upper part and descend, which is really wonderful. The combination of the foot three li, from the middle jiao to force down the evil heat, up and down, is really wonderful.
19.Dazhi, Neiguan
Function: Regulating Qi and moving water, expelling drinks and lowering rebellion
Indications: stuffiness in the chest and diaphragm, asthma and cough, phlegm, water in the chest and diaphragm, etc.
The formula: drink is water evil, stopping between the chest and epigastric, upward rebellion is full of lung, chest stuffiness, cough and gas rebellion, but stopping water is always responsible for the San Jiao, because it is the official of the decision, the water channel out of it, and the San Jiao is the body cavity oil membrane, running water and fluid road, fluid evaporation is from the San Jiao subordinate bladder, so that the decision is smooth, water does not stay in the problem. The large vertebrae belong to the Governor’s Vessel, the three yang of the hands and feet will regulate the sun’s qi, yang qi pass, then water from the benefit, and the performance of broadening the chest and lowering the qi. The Nei Guan point is the hand of the heart of the main hand of the fructus yin, don’t take the hand of the lesser yang, declare the heart of the yang and retreat the group of yin, the oil membrane and through the blockage is smooth, drinking evil can be removed.
20.Shaoshang, Shanyang, Hegu
Function: Clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting lung and throat
Treating: Taiyin-Yangming internal heat, up the throat, swelling and pain in the throat. In pediatrics, internal heat attacking the lungs and external infection, cough and fever.
Directions: Shaoshang is a Taiyin well point on the hand, with the property of decongesting lung heat. Shang Yang is at the end of the finger and is the well point of Yang Ming on the hand, which can relieve heat. The two points are punctured and bleeding, and have the effect of harmonizing and clearing the Xinxing. Hegu is the original point of Hand Yangming, it can clear the upper Jiao guest heat, and has the function of extracting heat from the bottom of the pot. (This formula is very effective for children with fever, cough, breast moth, mumps, etc.)
21, Yin Bai, Zhong Gui
Functions: strengthening the spleen, tonifying Qi, raising Yang and lifting sockets
Indications: Spleen and Yang deficiency, abdominal distension, diarrhea, deficiency of middle energy, tiredness and weakness, loss of appetite, menstrual disorders in women, menstrual bleeding and leakage, red and white belt and other diseases.
It is a well point of the foot Taiyin Spleen meridian, which is rooted in Yin Bai and knotted in Taicang (Zhonghua), and has the function of tonifying the spleen and stomach and regulating Qi and blood. Zhongbei is a meridian point of the Ren meridian, a point for the stomach and a meeting of the internal organs. It is a combination of meridian connection and relationship between the internal organs and the internal organs. Therefore, it is effective in strengthening the spleen and stomach, tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, eliminating food and dissolving drinks, and raising the clear and lowering the turbidity.
22, Dadun, Guan Yuan
Functions: soothing the liver and warming the menstruation, regulating the lower jiao, expelling cold and dampness, returning to the syncope
Various kinds of hernia, women’s yin, abdominal pain, epilepsy, urinary emission, inability to pass stool.
Formula definition: Dadun is the well point of the foot of the sympathetic yin, which is wood. The liver is the main tendon, and the front yin is the gathering of the zong tendon.
23. Sanyinjiao and Zhiyin
Function: Promoting the circulation of the lower jiao, regulating Qi and removing stasis.
Indications: obstructed labor, stillbirth, unreturned uterine garments, change of fetal position, menorrhagia, etc.
Directions: Zhiyin is the well point of the foot solar bladder meridian. The well is the source of the meridian qi, like the source of water. The bladder and kidneys are in close proximity to each other. Moxibustion and pricking of Zhiyin can regulate the qi of the lower jiao and remove stasis and create new energy. Three yin jiao is the foot of the three yin jiao points, is the hub of the three yin, so the two points together, can regulate the qi and blood, promote the lower jiao, benefit yin and downward. Fu Qingzhu said: “Difficult labor is due to blood deficiency.” Difficult labor is due to Qi deficiency”. If the Qi rebellion is regulated and the Blood deficiency is tonified, the fetus can not be born. (Clinical combination of tonifying Guan Yuan and diarrhea of Foot San Li can bring down stillbirth and be effective.)
24.Yufu and Yunmen
Functions: purging the lung and lowering rebellion, relieving cough and asthma.
Cough, asthma, stuffy heat in the chest, shortness of breath, vomiting and dullness.
Although both points are located high up in the chest, their meridians travel differently: the hand Taiyin lung meridian goes from the chest to the hand, while the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian goes from the foot to the chest. The hand goes from the chest to the hand, and the foot goes from the foot to the chest. The evidence of cough and shortness of breath, its surface in the lung, its origin in the kidney, lung and kidney disease. The lung is affected by evil, then cough, kidney deficiency does not receive, the gas does not return to the root and rebellious up for asthma, so take the Yunmen, the lung qi, smooth the chest and lower the rebellion, take the Yufu kidney nourishing qi, converge the punch and lower the rebellion. If we add taking milk root, to strengthen the power of anxious impulse to lower the rebellion, smooth the Yang meridian qi, help Yunmen to proclaim and descend, Yu Fu to converge.
25.Qi Hai, Guan Yuan, Zhong Ji, Zi Gong
Functions: nourishing blood, regulating menstruation, nourishing the true essence, tonifying the vital gate, warming the uterus, regulating the menstrual belt, and nurturing children
Indications: deficiency and coldness of the uterus, occlusion of the uterine gate, prolonged failure to conceive, yin shrinkage and impotence, abdominal pain and fullness, transfer of cells.
Directions: The four points belong to the Ren Vessel, with the uterus under the Zhongji. The Ren Vessel travels from the Huiyin to the abdomen, the Du Vessel travels from the Huiyin to the back, and the Chong Vessel travels from the Huiyin to the kidney meridian, so it is one element and three manifold. The sea of qi, the sea of anger, yuan qi by the deposit. Guan Yuan, men hide sperm, women store blood. Zhongji is the meeting point of the three Yin meridians and the Ren Vessel, and is the gateway to the uterus. The uterus, that is, the woman’s blood chamber. Therefore, take Qihai, to benefit the lower yuan; Guan Yuan, to fill the essence and blood; Zhongji, to regulate the menstruation and open the door; and the uterus, to treat its symptoms. Synergistic with the upper points, together with the effect of nourishing the blood and regulating menstruation, peiyuan warming the uterus.
26. Shen Que, Qi Hai, Tian Shu, Shui Shui
Functions: warming the navel and dispersing cold, returning Yang and benefiting Qi
Indications: deficiency cold in the lower yuan, cold pain in the navel and abdomen, cholera and vomiting and diarrhea, stroke, phlegm, phlegm syncope, slow frightening wind in children.
Directions: These five points are also known as navel plum points. Shen Que is a point of the Ren Vessel, which can pass through the organs and return to Yang to save the emergency. Tianshu is the foot Yangming Stomach meridian, the collection of the large intestine, turning dregs, separating the clear and turbid. Qihai is the sea of vital energy, tonifying the kidneys and returning Yang. Shuifen is the point of the Ren channel, which strengthens the spleen and relieves dampness and distributes water and grain. The five points are complementary to each other to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, warm the middle and rescue the rebellious. Add Tiantu and Zhonggui to lower Qi and remove phlegm and treat vomiting.
27, Shouze, Zhizhong
Function: Clearing blood toxins and dispersing obscenities.
Indications: cholera, distress and confusion, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, dysentery, etc.
Shou Ze is a joint point of Hand Shao Yin Lung meridian, with five elements of water, which is connected to the heart and has the function of eliminating blood poison. Zhizhong is a joint point of the Foot Sun Bladder meridian, with the five elements of earth. This point is used to treat the evil of summer heat, which first offends the Sun. The location of the two points, one at the elbow and one at the knee, is where the great blood vessels are located, so they can stab and bleed. Wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness, fire and other epidemics such as miasma and pestilence first offend the Sun and are transmitted to Taiyin, so the two meridians are stabbed to bring out the poisonous blood. If you add Jinjin and Yuyu, it will help to produce fluid and stop vomiting; Shaochong and Zhongchong, it will calm the mind and tranquilize the spirit; if you add Baihui, it will wake up the brain and open the orifice;
28.Shanli
Function: Promoting clearing and lowering turbidity, directing phlegm and moving stagnation, supporting the righteousness and cultivating vitality
Treating: all diseases of the middle Jiao, such as stomach pain, abdominal distension, cold stagnation, lumps, enuresis, eye diseases, canker sores, palpitations, numbness of the fingers, epilepsy, dirty mania, stroke, Yang Ming heat, deficiency labor, thinness, physical weakness, etc.
The internal organs and limbs depend on qi and blood for nourishment, and without stomach qi, they die. The stomach is the essence of the posterior, the sea of water and grain, the main consumption, the stomach is strong, the grain from the smooth, nutrition can be from the week, otherwise the dirty gas is not nourished, and the life is extinct. The foot three li belongs to the stomach point, the pivot of the meridian, can strengthen the person’s Yang, and can also supplement the loss of Qi and blood, such as the accumulation of cold Qi obstruction, its function is warm and can be transformed, dampness and turbidity diffuse swelling, can dry and can be eliminated, and can be used with Chinese medicine to supplement the formula of rising Yang.
29.Sanyinjiao
Functions: strengthening the spleen and benefiting Qi, nourishing the liver and kidney, promoting dampness and draining stagnation, draining menstruation and regulating Qi
Indications: stomach pain, abdominal distension, indigestion, intestinal tinnitus, loose diarrhea, jaundice, thirst, dizziness, insomnia, impotence, spermatorrhea, hernia, enuresis, blood in urine, dysuria, edema, swelling and pain in the pubic region, hypertension, obstruction of the intestines, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, collapse, dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorders, paralysis, foot problems, etc. Pregnant women are prohibited from acupuncture.
30.Yin Liang (new point)
Function: Clearing the throat, opening and closing the orifices
Positioning: anterior median line, the slight concavity between the lower edge of the thyroid cartilage and the upper edge of the cricoid cartilage.
Indications: Swelling and pain in the throat, loss of voice, aphasia.
Fang meaning: the point is above the Ren channel and before the pharynx, so it can treat localized diseases of the pharynx
31. Thirteen ghost points
Composition: Renzhong, Shaoshang, Yinbai, Daling, Shenzhong, Fengfu, Cheoche, Chengjiao
Laogong, Shangxing, Huiyin, Quchi, under the tongue
Functions: opening the orifices, resolving phlegm, clearing the mind, calming the heart and benefiting the will
Indication: Epilepsy
The “Thirteen Ghost Points” are important acupuncture points for treating epilepsy and madness, and were created by Bian Magpie during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao built on these points and “added more points for the intervening and Houxi”, for a total of 15 points. These acupoints have become the main prescriptions for the treatment of epilepsy and madness for many generations of doctors. These points include Renzhong, Fengfu, Shangxing, and Houxi, which are used to clear the mind by dipping the Yang of the Directing Vessel; Daling, the original point of the Hand Convulsive Yin meridian, and the intervening points, which are used to clear the fire of the pericardium and calm the mind and benefit the will; Quchi and Chee Che, both of the Hand and Foot Yangming meridians, which are used to channel the Yangming meridian and clear the heat from the internal organs; Shaoshang and Yinbai, both of the Well points of the Hand and Foot Taiyin meridians, which are used to clear the lungs and strengthen the spleen and dissolve phlegm; and Chengjue and Huiyin, both of the Ren Vessel, which are used to ventilate the Yin Vessel and nourish the Yin and lower the fire. It nourishes Yin and lowers fire. The points under the tongue (tongue is the seedling of the heart) are taken to clear the heart meridian and open the orifice to clear the mind. The combined use of these points can open the orifices and clear the phlegm, awaken the brain and clear the mind, and calm the mind and benefit the will. Therefore, for epilepsy and madness, the “Thirteen Ghost Points” can be used to obtain good results.
32, Daling
Function: Regulating Qi and relieving pain.
Indication: Heel pain
This formula is based on the principle of “taking the lower disease upward” and “cross-meridian mu-prick”, and is very effective in treating heel pain.
33.Hegu and Zhongzhu
Function: Regulating Qi and clearing meridians, soothing tendons and activating collaterals.
Indication: Finger flexion and non-extension.
The two points are located on the back of the hand, so they can treat localized pathologies.
34. Foot San Li and Cheng Shan
Functions: tonifying the intestines and stomach, relaxing tendons and resolving stasis
Indications: Blood hemorrhoids, dysentery, painful stasis in the chest and abdomen, cholera and tendon rotation.
The formula: Chengshan is a point of the foot solar bladder meridian, whose meridians run down from the back of the spine, and the bladder and kidney are on the same level, so it can harmonize the intestines and abdomen and regulate the qi of the lower jiao. Foot San Li is a joint point of the Foot Yang Ming Stomach meridian, whose meridians flow down from the chest and abdomen, and are superimposed on the spleen, thus relieving stagnant Qi in the chest and abdomen. Therefore, the combination of the two points can harmonize the intestines and stomach. When the stomach and intestines are harmonized, the heat and toxicity are cleared, and the dysentery and hemorrhoids can be healed. When the spleen and stomach are healthy, fluid is produced, the tendons are nourished, the tendons are restored, stagnation is eliminated, qi and blood are regulated, and the pain will stop.
35.San Yin Jiao, Zhi Yin
Function: Promoting the circulation of the lower jiao, regulating qi and removing blood stasis.
Indications: obstructed labor, stillbirth, unreturning of the uterine garment, change of fetal position, menorrhagia, etc.
Directions: Zhiyin is the well point of the foot solar bladder meridian. The well is the source of the qi of the meridian, like water. The bladder and kidneys are in close proximity to each other. Moxibustion and pricking of Zhiyin can regulate the qi of the lower jiao and remove stasis and create new energy. Three yin jiao is the foot of the three yin jiao points, is also the hub of the three yin. Therefore, the two points together can regulate qi and nourish blood, promote the lower jiao qi, and benefit yin and downward movement. Fu Qingzhu said: difficult labor due to blood deficiency. Difficult labor is due to Qi deficiency. If the Qi reversal is regulated and the Blood deficiency is tonified, the fetus will not be born.
36.Huanjiao, Fengshi, Yanglingquan
Effects: Promoting circulation, dispelling wind and dampness, relieving paralysis and pain, and relieving tendons and joints.
Indications: Stroke, migraine, all kinds of paralysis and pain, numbness, contraction of tendons, spasm, impotence and other lower limb disorders.