Acupuncture Points - General Flashcards
What are the 5 shu points?
1) jing well (where Qi emerges)
2) Ying spring (where Qi starts to trickle)
3) shu stream (where Qi starts to flow like a stream)
4) jing river (where Qi flows stronger, broader, like a river)
5) He sea (where Qi broadens & deepens like a sea)
What is a Luo point?
Luo points are connecting points where a separate channel branches off to connect to the paired organ’s meridian
What is a Mu point?
Points on front of chest/abdomen where the Qi of an organ is infused, usually located close to that organ
What is a back shu point?
Points on the back of the body where the Qi of an organ is ‘infused’
Either side of the spine
12 in total - one for each regular meridian
What is a Xi cleft point?
Points where Qi and blood of the meridian converge deeply
- also called accumulation points
- usually at or near joints
What is a Yuan point?
- also called primary points
- connect to Luo point of paired meridian
- retain Yuan Qi (primary Qi)
- yuan points of yin meridians also shu stream points (3rd point from extremity)
- yuan points of yang meridians are 4th point from extremity
- 12 yuan points - 1 for each reg meridian
What are the 8 influential points?
Points where Qi of organs/tissues are ‘infused’
- lv13 = zang organs
- cv12 = fu organs
- cv17 = Qi
- ub17 = blood
- gb34 = tendons
- lu9 = vessels
- ub11 = bones
- gb39 = marrow
What are the confluent points?
The 8 points of intersection are where the 8 extraordinary meridians connect to the 12 regular meridians
- sp4 connects to chong mai & nei guan
- pc 6 connects to yin Wei mai
- gb41 connects to dai mai & wai guan
- san jiao5 connects to yang wei mai
- si3 connects to du mai & shen mai
- bl62 connects to yang qiao mai
- lu7 connects to ren mai & zhao hai
- ki6 connects to yin qiao mai
