Class Four: Stomach

Question 1

Stomach 1 / Cheng Qi

Use:

Answer 1

Local point for the eyes

Expels wind
Brightens the eyes
Dissapates heat or cold
Treats twitching of the eyelids
Used for treating facial paralysis

Treats night blindness, myopia, conjunctivitis, and stops lacrimation

Question 2

Stomach 4 / Dicang

Use:

Answer 2

Used for treating wind and can be used with ST 6 for treating facial deviation.

Treats deviation of the mouth
Expels interior or exterior wind locally
Removes obstructions from the channel
Frees Qi stagnation

Used for treating facial paralysis, post stroke patients, and salication

Question 3

Stomach 6 / Jiache

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Answer 3

Used for treating wind and can be used with ST 4 for treating facial deviation.

Used for facial paralysis
Expels wind (especially exterios with LI 4)
Invigorates and removes obstructions from the channels
Regulates the Qi

Treats mumps (w/LI 4), trismus (masseter muscle spasms), toothache, and trigeminal neuralgia

Question 4

Stomach 7 / Xiaguan

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Answer 4

Used for local pain and treatment of TMJ

Treats facial pain
Used for jaw motor impairment
Benefits the ears
Clears obstructions from the channel

Used for TMJ, tinnitus, toothache, deafness, trigeminal neuralgia, otorrhea, and facial paralysis

Question 5

Stomach 8 / Touwei

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Answer 5

Used for Yang Ming headache, phlegm, and emotions

Treats frontal Yang Ming headache
Used for dizziness from phlegm
Addresses phlegm misting the head
Clears heat

Invigorates the channels
Dispels wind
Used for treating eye pain

Used for treating opthalmalgia (pain in the eye), and headache

Question 6

Stomach 9 / RenYing

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Answer 6

Regulates qi and blood; part of 4 Sea of Qi and Window of Sky

Regulates blood and Qi
Used for dizziness
Removes masses (locally)
Relieves swelling
Benefits the throat

Used for treating goiters, regulates high blood pressure, hypertension, sore throat, asthma, and dizziness

Question 7

Stomach 12 / Quepen

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Answer 7

All ZangFu channels except the Urinary Bladder cross here. Directs downward (rebellious qi)

Subdues and regulates rebelious qi; creates a strong downward qi movement

Question 8

Stomach 21 / Liangmen

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Answer 8

Similar use to Ren 12; used for Middle Jiao excess and regulation

Regulates the Middle Jiao
Harmonizes Spleen and Stomach
Stops vomitting
Relieves pain

Clears Stomach heat (especially excesses)
Addresses excess Stomach heat, damp, fire, etc.

Used for treating gastric pain, vomitting, diarrhea, abdominal distention, and anorexia

Question 9

Stomach 25 / Tianshu

Use:

Answer 9

Front Mu point for the Large Intestine

Used for constipation, diarrhea, dysentery, borborygmus, and edema

Treats intestinal problems, excess of deficiency of the Large Intestine, abdominal pain and distension.
It regulates qi, resolves food retention, irregular menses, and clears heat in the Large Intestine.
Addresses feelings of insecurity and instability (earth)

Question 10

Stomach 28 / Shuidao

Use:

Answer 10

Strong influence on water

Opens the water passages
Benefits urinary function
Regulates qi stagnation leading to menstrual probelms
Used for lower abdominal distention

Stops pain
Clears damp heat
Disinhibits the Low Burner

Question 11

Stomach 29 / Guilai

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Answer 11

Used for blood issues including regulation of menses

Used for blood stagnation, irregular menses due to blood stagnation, and abdominal pain

Treats dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, uterine prolapse, and hernia leukorrhea

Question 12

Stomach 30 / Qichong

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Answer 12

Part of the 4 Sea of Nourishment, Meeting Point for Chong Mai

Used to support the Jing, fertility, qi, and blood

Promotes essence
Tonifies the seas of food-nourishement
Regulates the Stomach qi
Regulates qi and blood in the lower abdomen and genitals

Treating running piglet disease
Treats abdominal pain
Used for swelling and pain in the genitalia

Used for treating borborygmus, hernia, impotence, dysmenorrhea, and irregular menses

Question 13

Stomach 34 / Liang Qiu

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Answer 13

Xi Cleft Point

Used for knee pain and numbness
Treats motor impairment of the lower extremities
Addresses rebellious Stomach qi and obstructions from the channel
Treats wind damp Bi syndrome

Used for gastric pain, hiccup, vomiting, belching, and mastitis

Question 14

Stomach 35 / Dubi

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Answer 14

Local point for knee pain

Used for pain and numbness and motor impairment of the knee
Treats local pain and Bi syndrome

Used for arthritis and beriberi

Question 15

Stomach 36 / Zusanli

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Answer 15

He Sea, Lower He Sea, Command Point for the Abdomen, 4 Sea of Nourishment/Grain

Tonification point, used for qi, blood, and Middle Jiao

Possibly the best primary channel point (ZangFu acupoint) to tonigy post-natal qi and blood

Benefits Stomach and Spleen
Tonifies qi and blood
Tonifies post-natal qi, wei qi, and ying qi

Used for gastric pain
Treats knee and leg pain
Used for cough
Treat emaciation

Used in treating mania
Raises the Yang

Resolves damp
breaks thoracic blood stagnation
Prevents disease

Used for treating morning sickness, vomiting, hiccup, borborygmus, diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, mastitis, dizzines, insomnia, edema, indigestion, gastric pain, enteritis, cough, asthma, hemiplegia and beriberi

Question 16

Stomach 37 / Shang Ju Hu

Uses:

Answer 16

Large Intestine Lower He Sea, 4 Sea of Blood

Eliminates damp heat
Addresses food retention
Regulates the function of the intestines

Calms asthma
Opens the chest
Relaxes the breath

Used for treating borborygmus, diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, enteritis, and beriber

Question 17

Stomach 38 / Tiao Kou

Uses:

Answer 17

Used in treating the shoulder

Treats weakness and motor impairment of the shoulder

Question 18

Stomach 39 / Xiao Ju Hu

Uses:

Answer 18

Small Intestine Lower He Sea, 4 Sea of Blood

Used for lower abdominal pain
Eliminates damp heat
Addresses backache referred from the testis
Clears heat

Regulates the function of the Stomach and intestines
Clears the bowels and transforms stasis

Treats borborygmus and flatulence

Question 19

Stomach 40 / Fenglong

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Answer 19

Luo point, Used for phlegm and heat

#1 point in TCM for treating phlegm
Calms the spirit and clears the mind

Clears Stomach heat
Clears spirit disposition

Used for treating asthma, headache, dizziness, vertigo, cough, excessive sputum, mania, and constipation

Question 20

Stomach 41 / Jiexi

Uses:

Answer 20

Tonifies the Stomach, Jing River; Used for treating heat

This point can untie obstruction in the channel

Tonfies Stomach; Fire point on an Earth Channel

Used for ankle joint pain, muscular atrophy, and motor impairment; clears heat and clears Stomach heat

Question 21

Stomach 42 / ChongYang

Uses:

Answer 21

Yuan Source Point

Used for muscular atrophy and motor impairment of the foot
Tonifies Stomach and Spleen
Calms the mind and shen

Treats obstructions from the channel
Treats pain of the upper teeth
Support earth
Transforms damp

Question 22

Stomach 44 / Neiting

Uses:

Answer 22

1 distal point for Stomach heat (organ or channel)

Ying Spring; Used for Stomach Heat

Used for treating pain in the face and deviation of the mouth along the channel
Treats foot swelling or pain
Used for febrile disease

Relieves rebellious Stomach Qi
Promotes digestion
Eliminates wind from the face

Used for treating conjunctivitis, sore throat, bleeding gums, toothache, epistaxis, gastric pain, acid regurgitation, diarrhea, and dysentery