BL - Channel Flashcards
What does BL connect?
EYE, Ear (NOT INSIDE EAR), NOSE
Connection with WHOLE HEAD - OCCIPITAL HA (plus, frontal, lateral, vertex, AND inside)
AND - BL, KD (uritogenital, brain)
BL Luo Connecting Channel
BL 58 – KD channel
In EXCESS, there is a nasal congestion with watery discharge, HA, and Backp Painj
In Xu - there is watery discharge or bleeding from the nose
—Excess ABOVE, Xu BELOW
BL Divergent Channel
Diverges Popliteal fossa Winds ANUS and Enters to connect BL and KD, ascends along the spine and disperses in HT Emerges at NECK Converges with the BL primary channel ----- ANUS - Hemorrhoids
Summarize BL CHannel
Int-Ext coupled with KD, Paired with SI
Anus
Eyes, Ears, Nose
VERY YANG CHANNEL – EXTERNAL CHANNEL eg. “Fence for Yard”
Treat YANG Pathogens – e.g. Wind
How many points on BL channel?
67
What are points tested on Head and Neck? What do they do?
BL 10
BL 1,2
BL 7
-Eliminates wind, Clear heat, benefit sensory organs of head/face (eyes,nose)
Benefits Eyes
Expels wind and Clears heat
Redness, swelling & pain of the eyes, vision problems
BL 1 ***
Internal or External conditions - Xs or Xu conditions
Eliminates wind and clears heat
Benefits eyes
Clears head and alleviates pain
Especially effective at treating External Pathogenic disorders
Frontal HA, Facial paralysis, hemorrhoids, and Hiccups
BL 2 ***
Use Through needling to BL 1
Frontal HA (through needling with Yuyao)
Hiccups - holographic Nose – Chest = BL 2
Benefits and regulates the Nose, Clears the Head
Nose disorders of any Kind
BL 7 **
DU 20 (Vertex HA)
REgulates Qi and Pacifies Wind (Int/Ext), Benefits the head and sensory orifices
Calms the spirit, activates channel and alleviates pain, Occipital HA, Stiff neck and shoulders, Interior Wind (dizziness, epilepsy)
“Celestial Pillar”
BL 10 **
Window of Heaven - Psychoemotional disorders
AT Posterior Hairline (we were taught 0.5 cun above Post Hairline)
SUDDEN contraction, epilepsy with inability of the legs to support the body, select BL 10
Which BL points on Back?
BL 11- 35, 41-54
Benefits the bones and joints (Rheumatic, arthritic dis.)
Expels pathogenic factors and Firms the Exterior
Regulates LU Qi and alleviates cough
BL 11 ***
HUI MEETING POINT OF BONES
PT of SEA OF BLOOD (+ST 37, 39)
Influence on Neck, Back and upper Respiratory (Proximity to BL 12,13)
Not as strong at Exterior (BL 12), Not as strong at LU (BL 13)
Expels Wind and Releases Exterior, strengthens defensive Qi and Firms the exterior
Disseminates and Descends LU-Qi, Benefits Nose
“Wind Gate”
BL 12 **
Bias towards Exterior Wind (PREVENT Exterior syndrome - immune sys), Shares LU-Qi action of BL 13
DIFF. BTW BL 12 and BL 13 – EXTERIOR WIND (Cold/Flu), whereas BL 13 Back Shu of LU - INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR of LU
What are Sensory Organ, Body Tissue, Fluorish, Fluid, Spirit of LU HT LV SP KD
LU - Nose - Skin/B Hair - B Hair - Nasal disch - Po
HT - Tongue- Blo Vessels - Face - Sweat - Spirit/Shen
LV - Eyes - Tendons - Nails - Tears - Hun
SP - Mouth - Muscles - Lips - ‘Xian’ - Yi (Thought)
KD - Ears (2 lower Yin) - Bones/Teeth - Hair - ‘Tuo’ - Zhi
What are Back Shu and Front Mu points?
LU - BL 13, LU 1 PC - BL 14, CV 17 HT - BL 15, CV 14 LV - BL 18, LV 14 SP - BL 20, LV 13 KD - BL 23, GB 25
Tonifies LU-Qi (Xu), Nourish LU-Yin, D and D LU-Qi
CLEARS Heat from LU, RELEASE EXT (ALL DISORDERS Int/Ext, Xs/Xu, Heat/Cold)- Throat, nose, skin, sweating
What point is level?
BL 13 ** (Back Shu of LU)
BL 42 - Tonifies and Nourishes LU + Local Pain (More supportive)
‘Door of Corporeal Soul’
Spreads LV-Qi and unbinds chest, Regulates HT, Regulates and Descends Qi (Treat HT AND LV)
What point is level with this point?
BL 14 ‘Jueyin Shu’ - Back Shu of PC
BL 43 ** (only one on outer line) - Tonifies and Nourishes LU, HT, KD, SP, ST ‘Shu of Gao and Huang’ (Untreatable area under chest)
Nourishes Yin and Clears heat, Calms Spirit, Fosters original Qi, Resolves Phlegm — ALL KINDS OF Xu - 5 types of taxation, 7 injuries
Tonifies and Nourishes HT, Regulates HT Qi, Calms Spirit, Unbinds Chest and Resolves Blo stasis, Clears HT fire, Disorders of Eyes, Tongue, Sweating
BL 15 ** - Back Shu of HT
All patterns of disharmony of HT (Xu of Qi, Blo, Yin or Yang; HT fire, Blo stasis, Obstruction due to phlegm)