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Bladder Flashcards

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Command Chart

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67: Jing Well, Metal, Mother
66: Ying-Spring, Water
65: Shu-Stream, Wood, Chils
64: Yuan Source
63: Xi-Cleft
60: Jing River, Fire
58: Luo

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BL-1***

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Actions:

  • Benefits the eyes
  • Expels wind and clears heat

Indications:
+ Eye disorders of any kind
–Redness, swelling, and pain of the eyes, vision problems

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BL-2***

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Actions:

  • Eliminates wind and clears heat
  • Benefits the eyes
  • Clears the head and alleviates pain
Indications:
\+Eye Disorders
\+Frontal headache (esp in eyebrow region)
\+Facial Paralysis
\+Pain of hemorrhoids
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BL-7**

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Actions:

  • Benefits and regulates the nose
  • Clears the had

Indications:
+Nose disorders of any kind (+GV23)
+Vertex headache (+GV20)

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BL-10**

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Actions:

  • Regulates qi and pacifies wind
  • Benefits the head and sensory orifices
  • Calms the spirit
  • Activates the channel and alleviates pain

-Window of Heaven-

Indications:
+Main point for occipital h/a, stiff neck and shoulders
+Disorders of the sensory orifices
+Interior wind

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BL-11***

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Actions:

  • Benefits the bones and joints
  • Expels pathogenic factors and firms the exterior
  • Regulates Lung-Qi and alleviates cough
  • Hui meeting point of bones*
  • Point of sea of blood (+ST37, 39)*
  • Influence on neck, back, and upper respiratory*

Indications:
+Bone and joint disorders
+Local pain
+Attack of exterior pathogenic wind-cold

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BL-12**

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Actions:

  • Expels wind and releases the exterior
  • Strengthens defensive qi and firms the exterior
  • Disseminates and descends LU-Qi
  • Benefits the nose

“Wind Gate” (bias toward exterior wind)

Indications
+Exterior pathogenic wind attacks (cold/flu)
+Nose disorders of all kinds
+Stiff neck, lumbar pain

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BL-13** - BL42

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BL-13 (Back Shu of the LUNG)

  • Tonifies LU qi and nourishes LU-yin
  • Descends and disseminates LU-Qi
  • Clears heat from the LU
  • Releases the exterior

Indications:
+All patterns of disharmony of the LUNG organ
–All deficiency LU patterns
–All excess LU patterns
–EPF affecting the LU
+Disorders of the throat, nose, skin, sweating

BL-42

  • Tonifies and nourishes the LU
  • Soothes dyspnea and cough
  • Activates teh channel and alleviates pain

Indications:
+LU disorders
+Local pain

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BL-15** - BL-44

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BL-15 (Back-Shu of the HT)

  • Tonfies and nourishes the HT
  • Regulates HT-Qi
  • Calms the spirit
  • Unbinds the chest and resolves blood stasis
  • Clears HT fire

Indications:
+All patterns of disharmony of the HEART organ
–Heart: oppression, pain, palp., irregular heart beat
–Spirit: insomnia, poor memory - “Happy Point”
+Disorders of the eyes tongue sweating

BL44

  • Unbinds the chest and regulates Qi
  • Activates the channel and alleviates pain

“Hall of the Spirit”

Indications:
+Disorders of the chest
+Local pain

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BL-18** - BL47

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BL-18 (Back Shu of the LIVER)

  • Spreads LV-Qi
  • Tonifies and nourishes LV blood
  • Pacifies wind
  • Cools fire and clears damp-heat
  • Benefits the eyes and sinews

Indications:
+All patterns of disharmony of the LIVER organ
+Eye, sinews or mental disorders characterized by LV pathology
+Local pain

BL-47

  • Spreads LV-Qi and relaxes the sinews
  • Harmonizes the middle jiao

“Gate of the Ethereal Soul”

Indications:
+Local pain
+Contraction of the sinews
+Disorders of the SP/ST

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BL-20** - BL-49

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BL-20 (Back Shu of the SPLEEN)

  • Tonifies SP-Qi and SP-yang
  • Resolves dampness
  • Raises SP-qi and holds blood
  • Regulates and harmonizes the qi of the middle jiao

Indications:
+All patterns of disharmony of the SPLEEN organ
+Local back pain (worse w/ cold and damp)

BL-49

  • Clears damp-heat
  • Regulates the SP and ST

“Abode of Thought”

Indications:
+Damp-heat
+Disharmony of the ST and SP
+Local back pain

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BL-23** - BL-52*

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BL-23 (Back Shu of the Kidney)

  • Tonifies KD-qi and KD-yang, KD-yin and KD-essence
  • Regulates the water passages and benefits urination
  • Benefits and warms the uterus
  • Benefits the eyes and ears
  • Strengthens lumbar region

Indications:
+All patterns of disharmony of the KD organ
+Dual disharmony of the KD and SP, HT, LV, or LU
+Chronic deficiency, esp in the elderly
+Local pain in the lumbar region

BL-52

  • Tonifies KD and benefits essence
  • Regulates Urination
  • Strengthens lumbar region

“Residence of the Will”

Indications:
+Sexual dysfunction
+Urinary Disorders
+Local pain in the lumbar region

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BL-14* - BL-43**

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BL-14 (Back Shu of the PERICARDIUM)

  • Spreads LV-qi and unbinds the chest
  • Regulates the HT
  • Regulates and descends Qi

Indications:
+Chest and heart disorders d/t LV Qi stagnation
+Heart Dysfunction
+LU/ST Qi rebellion

BL-43 “Vital Region Shu”

  • Tonifies and nourishes the LU, HT, KD, SP and ST
  • Nourishes Yin and clears heat
  • Calms the spirit
  • Fosters the original Qi
  • Resolves phlegm

Indications:
+All kinds of deficiency (LU, HT, KD, SP/ST)
–Phlegm diseases
+Local pain of the back and shoulder

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BL-19***

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Back Shu of the Gallbladder

Actions:

  • Drains damp-heat from the LV and GB
  • Clears pathogenic factors from shaoyang
  • Tonifies and regulates GB-Qi
  • Tonifies deficiency
Indications:
\+Damp heat in the GB and LV
\+Shaoyang syndrome
\+Deficiency of the Qi of the HT and GB
\+Steaming bone disorder, deficiency - taxation
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BL-21***

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Back Shu of the Stomach

Actions:

  • Regulates the ST and descends rebellion
  • Harmonized the middle jiao

Indications:
+All diseases of the ST Fu-organ
+Disharmony of both the ST and SP

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BL-22**

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Back Shu of Triple Warmer

Actions:

  • Moves and regulates the TW
  • Regulates the SP and ST and resolves dampness
  • Regulates the water passages and promotes urination
  • Resolves masses
Indications:
\+Water metabolism disorders
\+Abdominal masses
\+Shaoyang syndrome
\+Local pain of the lower back
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BL-25**

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Back Shu of Large Intestine

Actions:

  • Regulates the intestines
  • Transforms stagnation and alleviates pain
  • Strengthens the lumbar region and legs

Indications:
+Intestinal disorders
+Local back pain or atrophy of the leg

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BL-27***

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Back Shu of the Small Intestine

Actions:

  • Separates the pure from the turbid
  • Regulates the intestines and bladder
  • Drains turbid dampness and clears damp-heat
  • Regulates Small Intestine Qi
Indications:
\+Intestinal disorders esp d/t damp-heat
\+Urinary disorders d/t damp=heat
\+Genital disorders d/t damp-heat
\+Others (SI Qi pain, wasting and thirsting, local pain)
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BL-28***

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Back Shu of the Bladder

Actions:

  • Regulates the bladder
  • Clears damp heat from the lower burner
  • Dispels stagnation and resolves masses
  • Benefits the lumbar region and legs

Indications:
+All kinds of urinary disorders, esp d/t damp-heat
+Damp heat in the intestinal/genital region
+Stiffness/pain of the lumbar region, sacrum, buttocks, coccyx, and lower limbs

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BL-17**

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Actions:

  • Invigorates blood and dispels stasis
  • Cools blood heat and stops bleeding
  • Nourishes and harmonizes blood
  • Harmonizes the diaphragm and descends rebellious Qi

“Diaphragm Shu”
Hui meeting pt of blood

Indications:
+All blood diseases, esp in the upper and middle jiao
+Painful obstruction, skin disorders
+LU/ST Qi rebellion

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BL-26**

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Actions:

  • Strengthens the lumbar region
  • Regulates the lower burner

“Gate of origin Shu”

Indications:
+All cases of lumbar pain
+Disorders of the lower burner with underlying KD deficiency

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Liao Points - BL 31,32,33,34

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  • Regulates the lower jiao and facilitates urination and defecation
  • Regulates menstruation and stops leukorrhea
  • Benefits the lumbar region and legs
  • Important points for inducing labor
32 - Labor pain
32, 33 - Urinary Disorders
32, 33 - Pain in the lumbosacral area, pain/atrophy of the legs
34 - Intestinal Disorders
34 - GYN/genital disorders
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BL-35**

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Actions:

  • Clears Damp Heat and Regulates the lower jiao
  • Benefits the coccyx and treats hemorrhoids

Indications:
+Anal Disorders
+Local pain of the coccyx or lumbar region
+Damp-heat in the lower jiao

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BL-54***

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Actions:

  • Benefits the lumbar region, activates the channel and alleviates pain
  • Regulates urination and treats hemorrhoids

Indications:
+Channel disorders
+Urogenital disorders
+Anal disorders

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BL-36***

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Actions:

  • Activates the channel, relaxes the sinews and alleviates pain
  • Regulates the lower jiao and alleviates pain
  • Treats hemorrhoids

Indications:
+Disorders of the lower limb
—-Main point for upper hamstring injury
+Hemorrhoids

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BL-37**

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Actions:

  • Activates the channel and alleviates pain
  • Benefits the lumbar region

Indications:
+Disorders of the lower limb and lumbar spine
–Sciatica

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BL-39***

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Actions:

  • Harmonizes the triple burner and regulates urination
  • Activates the channel and alleviates pain

Lower HeSea pt of TW

Indications:
+Urinary disorders
+Local pain of the leg/foot

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BL-40**

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Actions:

  • Benefits the lower back and knees, activates the channel, alleviates pain
  • Cools blood
  • Cools summer heat and stops vomiting and diarrhea
  • Benefits the bladder

“Blood Xi-Cleft”
Lower HeSea pt for lumbar region and back

Indications:
\+Disorders of the lumbar region and lower limbs
\+Heat in the blood level
\+Counterflow qi and diarrhea
\+Urinary disorders
\+Hemorrhoids
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BL-57**

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Actions:

  • Relaxes the sinews, activates the channel and alleviates pain
  • Benefits the calf and heel
  • Treats Hemorrhoids

Indications:
+Primary distal pt for all kinds of hemorrhoids
+Main point for calf cramps
+Important point for heel pain
+Sciatica pain radiating to the calf region

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BL-58***

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Actions:

  • Harmonizes the upper and lower
  • Expels wind from Taiyang channel
  • Treats Hemorrhoids
  • Activates the channel and alleviates pain

Luo connecting pt

Indications:
\+Lower limb problems
\+"Excess above + deficiency below"
\+Mania and epilepsy, hemorrhoids
\+Exterior syndrome in taiyang stage
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BL-60***

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Actions:

  • Clears heat and lowers yang
  • Pacifies wind and leads down the excess
  • Activates the entire channel and alleviates pain
  • Relaxes the sinews and strengthens the lumbar spine
  • Promotes labor

Contraindicated in pregnancy
Jing-River, Fire point

Indications:
+Heat, excess yang or wind in the head
+Pain and contraction anywhere along the channel (occipital h/a)(pain of the back and spine use SI3)
+Prolonged labor

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BL-62**

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Actions:

  • Pacifies the interior wind and expels exterior wind
  • Calms the spirit and treats epilepsy
  • Benefits the head and eyes
  • Opens and regulates yang qiao
  • Activates the channel and alleviates pain

Confluent pt of the Yang Qiao Mai
SI3+BL62: inner canthus of the eye, hear, nape of the neck, scapula

Ghost point

Indications:
\+Wind disorders
\+Mental disorders
\+Heat in the head
\+Pain of the lumbar region and hip
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BL-67**

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Actions:

  • Expels wind and clears the head and eyes
  • Turns the fetus and facilitates labor

Contraindicated in pregnancy
“Reaching yin”
Jing-Well point

Indications:
+Fullness and heat in the head
+Malposition of the fetus
+Delayed/prolonged labor, retention of placenta

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