6 Basic Meridians

Question 1

The 6 meridian theory refers to the 3 yin and 3 yang patterns

6 levels due to progression of conditions from the most external____ to the most internal _______

Answer 1

The most external is the Tai Yang or fire (small intestine —> urinary bladder)

The most internal is Jue Yin
Jue Yin is the pericardium and moves to triple heater

Question 2

What are the characteristics common to Jue Yin

Answer 2

Fire and pericardium these are seen as
Irritable
Anxious
Emotionally volatile at times

Tend to harbor grudges and have explosive anger

Thank
Muscle cramps and often insomnia

Sensitive to many foods

Think Loui CK guy we worked on balancing his fire with wood

Question 3

By treating the correct “stage” you can avoid

Answer 3

Driving the condition in deeper or blocking it’s way “out” of the body (tonifying when you need to disperse an external pathogen such as a cold)

Question 4

Exceptions to the entry and exit points

Answer 4

LU 7
LI 4

ST43

KD 22

PC 8

TH 22

GB 41

CAN BE USED IF YOU WANT TO ALLOW A RELATIVE EXCESS OR DEFICIENCY IN ONE MERIDIAN TO BE OFFSET BY ITS YIN AND YANG PAIRED MERIDIAN

For example if you want to drain excess from LU and have if flow directly into LI you could needle LU7 nad LI 4

Question 5

Entry to the LU meridian

Answer 5

LU1 LU7* (LU 11

Question 6

ENTRY AND EXIT OF Liu

Answer 6

LI 4 * (LI1)

LI20

Question 7

Entry and exit to PC

Answer 7

PC 1

PC 8* (PC9)

Question 8

What is shen men

Answer 8

This is the master point in the year that is known as the divine gate it is in the middle of the auricle and can treat stress anxiety
Depression
Inflammatory disease

Question 9

Point zer

Answer 9

Aligns with solar plexus (fetus)

Brings us into homeostatic balance 
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Balances energy
Can be used to regulate the brain
Viscera
Hromones

Question 10

Sympathetic automatic point

Answer 10

Designed to jumpstart our bodies for survival; purposes

Our digestive organs shut down

This point balances our sympathetic nervous system with para sympathetic activation

It improves blood

Question 11

Water emotions

Answer 11

Warm open 
Empathetic intuitive 
Articulate
Empathetic
Thinks acts and works quickly 

Clear thinking
Motivated
Willful
Direct in expression

Ruled by FEAR

Question 12

Negative wood emotions

Answer 12

Anger

SOUR

Question 13

Water organs

Answer 13

Kidney

Bladder

Question 14

Earth organs

Answer 14

Spleen

Stomach

Question 15

Metal organs

Answer 15

Large intestine
LUNG

Remember the nature duty
Is both earth and metal
They feed each other
The earth is the stomach and the spleen and the metal is the lung and large intestine

Earth grounding nurturing
Ruled by worry think Luis

Metal is pure and negative is Grief

Question 16

Master point of the lung meridian

Answer 16

Narrow defile

Ion the radial groove two can proximal to the wrist fold

This is also the exit point of the nurse meridian

Question 17

Lu 9

Answer 17

Great abyss

This is in the radial groove and regulates emotions
This is a source point

Question 18

Positive and negative emotions associated with fire

Answer 18

Joy and

Question 19

What is the master point of the LI

Where is it located and what does it do

Answer 19

LI 4

LETTING GO
Not on pregnant women

Pain the upper extremity head and neck

Analgesia-lower jaw promotes drainage

It is located on the highest spot of the muscle when the thumb and index fingers are brought close together

GREAT for migraine and TTH

Question 20

What is the master point for the ST

Answer 20

St 36

FOOT THREE MILES
3 CUN below ST35 which aligns on the lateral side of the patellar ligament

This can be used in combination with LI 4 for GI complaints

Can be used by itself for knee complaints
GI-constipation, diarrhea

N/V
Health promotion and longevity you

Hiccups
Major tonificación

IN ONE STUDY ST36 and SP 6 were more effective in raising leukocytes than western drugs

Question 21

What is the master point for Spleen 6

Answer 21

Spleen 6 is located 3 CUN