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Actions of Channels Flashcards

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  • Treat rebellious Qi (eg coughing)
  • Treats nasal disorders
  • Treats throat disorders
  • Treats edema and water passages
  • Treats rebellious stomach qi
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Lung Channel of Hand Taiyin

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Connects with:

Large Intestine, Stomach, Lungs

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Lung Channel of Hand Taiyin

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  • Expel wind, wind cold and wind heat
  • Treat yangming in head - face, cheek, forehead,eyes, nose, lips,gums, teeth
  • Treat disorders of the ears
  • Opens water passages
  • Clears heat - wind heat, interior heat, fire, poison
  • Clears Yangming fire of the Heart and Spirit
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Large Intestine Channel of Hand Yangming

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Connects with:

Large Intestine, Lungs

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Large Intesting Channel of Hand Yangming

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  • Treats disorders of yangming in the head
  • Treats ear and throat
  • Regulates Intestine function
  • Treats disorders of upper middle and lower jiao
  • Tonifys Qi, Blood, ying and yang
  • Treats Breasts
  • Treats disturbance of spirit and shen
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Stomach Channel of Foot Yangming

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Connects with:

Heart, Spleen, Stomach

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Stomach Channel of Foot Yangming

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  • Treats failure of T&T function (Transportation and Transformation)
  • Treats disorders of the Intestines
  • Treats dampness and retention
  • Tonify Qi, Blood
  • Resolve blood stasis
  • Raise Qi, treating prolapse
  • Calms and regulates spirit
  • Treats genitals
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Spleen Channel of Foot Taiyin

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Connects with:

Spleen, Stomach, Heart, Intestines

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Spleen Channel of Foot Taiyin

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  • Treats pain in the chest
  • Disorder of tongue and speech
  • Disorder of throat
  • Disorder of eyes (eg. redness)
  • Various disorders of face complexion
  • Regulates and calms shen - deficiency of excess heat or phlegm
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Heart channel of Hand Shaoyin

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Connects with:

Lungs, Small Intestines, Heart

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Heart Channel of Hand Shaoyin

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  • Clear heat from the pathways of the channel, reducing fever
  • Transforms phlegm and clears heat from heart zang
  • Cooling Heat & alleviating pain along the arm, axilla, shoulder, scapula, neck, throat, jaw, teeth, tongue, nose, cheek, eyes and ears
  • Treat swelling - neck, throat and cheek
  • Treat disorders of the breasts and lateral costal region
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Small Intestine Channel of Hand Taiyang

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Connects with:

Stomach, Heart, Small Intestines

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Small Intestine Channel of Hand Taiyang

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  • Eliminates interior & exterior wind
  • Treat Shen diharmonies
  • Posterior portion of the thigh treats lumbar region, anus and leg
  • Distal Channel treats interior, exterior yang pathogensof the head, brain and sense organ
  • Inner back - effects the zangfu, tissue, substances and senses
  • Outer channel has similar indications to the inner points
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Urinary Bladder Channel of Foot Taiyang

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Connects with:

Kidneys, Heart, Bladder

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Urinary Bladder Channel of Foot Taiyang

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  • root pathologically ascending yang
  • nourishes yin
    • clear deficiency heat
      • night sweating
      • tidal fever
    • nourish Liver yin to root liver yang
      • headaches
      • dizziness
  • Constipation due to dryness
  • Balance heart fire and harmonising shen
    • restlessness, insomnia, poor memory, palpatations
  • Benefits the throat
  • Root Qi and harmonising the relationship between the kidneys and lung
  • Strengthens lumbar spine
  • Benefits the ears
  • Regulate the Ren & Chong channels
  • Regulate bladder and intestines
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Kidney Channel of Foot Shaoyin

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Connects with:

Urinary Blabber, Kidney, Liver, Lung, Heart

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Kidney Channel of Foot Shaoyin

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  • Treats disorder of Heart Zang
    • Pain, palpatations, irregular heart rythym
  • Treat disorder of the Shen
  • Treats disorder of chest in general, including diharmony of the lung
  • Treat disorder of stagnation in the upper / middle jiao
  • Treat disorder of lateral costal region (sinew channel)
  • Treat febrile disease (blocks pathagens that might injure heart
  • Treat swelling and ppain of the axilla
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Pericardium Channel of Hand Jeuyin

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Connects with:

Heart, Pericardium, San Jiao

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Pericardium Channel of Hand Jeuyin

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  • Reduce fever
    • upper jiao defensive qi
    • clear heat from neck and throat
  • Benefit the ears
  • Soothes Hart and Calms Shen
  • Treat Headaches
  • Harmonizes middle & lower jiao
    • vomiting & constipation
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San Jiao Channel of Hand Shaoyang

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Connects with:

Pericardium, San Jiao

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Sanjiao Channel of Hand Shaoyang

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  • Treat disorder of eyes & ears due to heat
  • Treat headaches
    • one-sided headaches at temple & side of head
  • Treat disorder of Liver organ
  • Treat phlegm
    • swelling nodules
  • Clear damp-heat from the organ
    • jaundice, hypochondrial pain, nausea, vomiting & fever
  • Treat Shen disharmonies
  • Inluences the Girdling channel
  • Treat disorders of Sinews
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Gall Blader Channel of Foot Shaoyang

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  • Assists decending stomach and lung Qi
  • Assists ascending spleen Qi
  • Pacify interior wind, uprising of yang fire
    • headache, dizziness, epilepsy, spasm
  • Benefit the eyes
  • Treat disorders of the external genitals
  • Regulate menstruation and menstrual cycle
  • Treat shan (mountain) disorder
    • hernia, severe lower abdomenpain, genital swelling
  • Treat shen disharmonies
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Liver Channel of Foot Jeuyin

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Connects with:

Lung, Stomach, Gall Bladder, Liver

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Liver Channel of Foot Jeuyin

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  • Gynocylogical disorders
  • Treat local areas
    • counterflow qi - stomach & lungs
    • abdominal disharmony, shortness of breath
  • Atrophy of the leg
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Chong Mai - Penetrating Channel

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  • “Sea of Blood
  • Strong relationship with uterus, liver and kidney
  • Strong Relationship with Ren and Du
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Chong Mai

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  • Treat disharmony in local area
    • umbilicus - urination, defication, genitals
    • stagnant / rebellious stomach qi
    • dantian - tonify jing and mingmen
    • Zangfu - at coresponding area
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Ren Mai - Conseption Vessel

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  • Ascends the midline anterior body
  • Associated with yin of body
  • Originates at the uterus
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Ren Mai - Conseption Vessel

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  • Treat local area
    • spine
    • zangfu - corresponding location
    • sense organs
    • disharmonies with heart zang
  • Treat wind (wind is yang pathogen)
  • Treat fever (reduce heat in the body)
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Du Mai - Governing Vessel

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  • Ascends inside spine and along it
  • All yang channels meet it at C7 “Sea of yang channels”
  • Enters brain, kidneys and heart
  • Winds around anus and external genitals
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Du Mai - Governing Vessel

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  • Treat local area
    • abdominal fullness, shan disorder
    • pain - umbilicus, abdomen, waist and lumbar spine
  • difference in sensation, above and below waist
  • Irregular menstruation, infertility, red and white leucorrhoea
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Dai Mai - Girdling Vessel

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  • Encircles the waist like a belt
  • Only horizontal channel in the body
  • Harmonizes above and below
    • affects the flow of qi through the vertical channels
    • influences circulation of qi to the legs
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Dai Mai - Girdling Vessel

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  • dizziness, fever and chills
  • shortness of breath
  • acute pain and swelling of the lumbar region
  • links together yang channels of the body
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Yang Wei Mai - Yang linking channel

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  • Links together yin channels of the body
  • Pain
    • Heart, chest, lumbar region
    • Lateral costal region - fullness
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Yin Wei Mai - Yin Linking Channel

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  • contracted sinews
  • flaccidity of the muscles of the lateral leg and tightness of the muscles of the medial leg
  • night time epilepsy
  • eye disease
  • painful obstruction of the skin due to damp heat
  • hypogastric pain, shan disorder, chills, fever
  • pain in genitals, uterine bleeding, leuccorhoea
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Yin Qiao Mai - Yin Stepping Motility

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  • Flaccidity of the muscles of the medial leg and tightness of the muscles of the lateral leg
  • Chronic painful obstruction, lumbar pain, rigidity of the body, contracted sinews
  • Daytime epilepsy, eye disease
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Aversion to wind, hemiplegia - internal wind (uncontrolled movement), external wind (sick)
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Yang Qiao Mai - Yang Stepping, Motility

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The following Channel connects with:

  • Stomach
  • Large Intestine
  • Lung
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Lung Channel of Hand Yaiyin

37
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The Lung primary channel meets with what other channels?

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None

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This channel has these five principal functions:

  • governing qi and controlling respiration
  • controlling disseminating and descending
  • regulates water passages
  • controlling the skin and body hair
  • opening into the nose
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The Lung Channel of Hand Taiyin

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Name the Channel:

  • treats rebellion of qi - coughing wheezing and shortness of breath
  • restores function impaired by pathogens
  • treat nasal disorders - nosebleed and nasal obstruction
  • treats throat disorders - dryness, soreness, congestion, swelling & pain
  • regulates water passages - edema and urniation obstruction
  • treat vomiting due to rebellion stomach qi
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The Lung Channel of Hand Taiyin

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The Large Intestine Channel connects with these organs:

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Large Intestine

Lung

41
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What channel helps Yangming Heat

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Large Intestine Channel of Hand Yangming

42
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This Stomach Primary Channel connect with which organs

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Stomach

Spleen

43
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This channel connects with the following channels:

Ren

Du

LI

UB

GB

SP

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Stomach Channel of Foot Yangming

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This channel functions are:

  • control rotting and ripening of food
  • control descending
  • first stage in the digestion of fluids
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Stomach Channel of Foot Yangming

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Diharmony of this organ manifests as:

  • disorder of apetite and digestion
  • distention & pain in apigastrium due to failure of qi to descend
  • belching, nausea, or vomiting due to rebellious qi
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Stomach Channel of Foot Yangming

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47
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The spiritual pivot says this Yangming channel is abundant in qi and blood

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The Stomach Channel of Foot Yangming

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This channel is used to

  • regulate qi and blood
  • treat atrophy disorder, painful obstruction and pain in the lower limb
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The Stomach Chanel of Foot Yangming

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