GB Channel Flashcards
GB channel is called the
Foot Shaoyang
Which confluence is GB channel ?
3rd confluence
Luo-connecting GB channel: Excess =
Fainting
or
heat sensation of the lower leg, knee pain, numbness of the body, propensity to grind teeth ???
Luo-connecting GB Channel: Deficiency =
Weak and flaccid foot muscle - making it difficult to stand
or
atrophy disorder of the legs with difficulty in standing after sitting????
Metal (Jing well)
GB 44
Water (Ying spring)
GB 43
Wood (Shu stream)
GB 41
Fire (Jing river)
GB 38
Earth (He sea)
GB 34
GB 1 is the crossing point of:
GB/SI/SJ
GB 3 and GB 4 are crossing points of:
GB/ST/SJ
GB 5 and GB 6 are crossing points of:
GB/ST/SJ/LI
GB7, GB 8, GB 9, GB 10, GB 12, GB 23, GB 30 are all crossing points of:
GB/UB
GB13-GB21 are all crossing points of:
GB/Yangwei
GB 13, GB 16, GB 17, GB 18, GB 19 are all crossing points of only:
GB/Yang wei
GB 14 is a crossing point of:
GB/ Yang wei / SJ/ST/LI
GB 15 is a crossing point of:
GB/Yang wei/UB
GB 20 is a crossing point of:
GB/Yang wei/Yang qiao/SJ
GB 21 is a crossing point of:
GB/Yang wei/SJ/ST
Front mu of GB and Crossing point of GB/SP:
GB 24
Front mu of KD:
GB 25
GB 26 - GB 28 are crossing points of:
GB/Dai channel
GB 30 and GB 34 are:
Ma Dan Yang Heavenly Star points
GB 30 is a crossing point of:
GB/UB
Influential point of sinews and tendons:
GB 34
He-sea point:
GB 34
Xi cleft point of Yang Wei channel and crossing point of 3 yang channels on the leg:
GB 35
Xi cleft point of GB:
GB 36
Luo connecting point:
GB 37
Jing river point:
GB 38
Influential point of marrow:
GB 39
Source point:
GB 40
Shu-stream point:
GB 41
Confluent point of Dai channel
GB 41
Yin Spring point:
GB 43
Jing well point:
GB 44
Font mu point of GB:
GB 24
Back shu point of GB:
UB 19
Which point is a local point for all kinds of eye problems; Including LV fire, LYR, LV channel wind-heat; and eliminates the wind ?
GB 1
Which point is a local point for ear problems due to LYR, LV Fire, or wind-heat and expels exterior wind, and clears heat ?
Also, removes obstruction from the channel and alleviates pain (dislocation of the jaw, ups, toothache, wind-stroke, pain of the mandibular joint, deviation of mouth and eye).
GB 2
Eliminates wind and benefits the ear (tinnitus, deafness, facial pain, chills and fever)
Activates the channel and alleviates pain (lockjaw, headaches, clonic spasm)
GB 3
Which point:
- Eliminates wind and clears heat
- Activates the channel and alleviates pain (migraines, vertigo, tinnitus, earache, WRIST pain, joint wind with sweating, inability to flex wrist) — Also a great point with ST 44 to treat grinding of the teeth
GB 4
Which point:
- Expels wind and clears heat
- Activated the channel and alleviates pain (migraine, pain in the outer cants, facial swelling, toothache, nosebleed, rhinitis)
GB 5
Which point:
- LOCAL POINT for TEMPORAL HEADACHES, MIGRAINE
- Removes obstructions from the channel (migraine, pain of outer cants, swelling and redness of facial skin) - FOR EAR PROBLEMS EXTENDING TO THE SIDE OF THE HEAD, ALONG THE GB CHANNEL
- Benefits the ear (tinnitus) - Expels wind and clears heat
(febrile disease with ABSENCE of sweating, sneezing, agitation of the HT with no desire to eat, heat in the MJ)
GB 6
Which point:
- Eliminates wind and benefits the MOUTH and JAW (headache, pain in temporal region, aphasia, infantile convulsion, stiff neck with inability to turn head)
GB 7
Which point:
- Removes obstruction from the channel and benefits the ears — WIDELY USED LOCAL POINT FOR EAR PROBLEMS (tinnitus, deafness)
- Eliminates wind, benefits the head and alleviates pain – IMPORTANT POINT FOR PARIETAL OR TEMPORAL H/A AND HEAVINESS
-FOR EXTERIOR WIND ATTACK, LYR, LV FIRE, LV WIND
(migraine h/a, heaviness of the head, head wind, dizziness) - Harmonizes the diaphragm and ST and alleviates vomiting - MAIN POINT TO TREAT H/A WITH VOMITING, but don’t need to have h/a or a migraine to be able to use this point
(incessant vomiting, cold ST, inability to eat) - Treat alcohol intoxication
(injury by alcohol with vomiting)
GB 8
Which point:
- Removes obstructions from the channel (toothache, swelling and pain of the gums)
- Subdues rising Qi - FOR MIGRAINE H/A D/T LYR, LV FIRE, OR LV WIND (h/a, tinnitus, damp itching of the ear)
- Eliminates interior wind
a. calms spasms - FOR INTERIOR WIND
* convulsions
* epilepsy
* contraction of muscles
b. calms the mind - for disturbance of movement and speech d/t CNS problems
GB 9
Which point:
- Clears the head and benefits the neck region
- Activates the channel and alleviates pain
a. head (h/a, tinnitus, deafness, chills and fever, toothache)
b. neck (stiffness and pain of the neck, goiter, throat painful obstruction, swelling and pain of the neck)
c. chest (fullness of the chest with dyspnea, chest pain, cough with expectoration of phlegm and form)
d. extremities (pain of the shoulder and arm, inability to raise the arm, flaccidity of the legs with inability to walk)
GB 10
Which point:
- Clears the head and benefits the SENSE organs (headaches, dizziness, ear pain, ear ache, bleeding from the root of tongue, stiff tongue, nauseating butter taste in the mouth)
- Activates the channel and alleviates pain (goiter, pain in the head and neck, pain of the lateral costal region)
- Clears heat and eliminates the wind (cough, absence of sweating, bone taxation)
GB 11
Which point:
- Eliminates wind and calms spasms - LOCAL POINT FOR WIND (EXTERIOR OR INTERIOR)
(otitis media, hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eyes, clenched jaw, epilepsy malaria, sweating without aversion to cold, shaking of the head) - Subdues rising Qi and benefits the head - A LOCAL POINT FOR MIGRAIN HEADACHES
*along GB channel
* d/t LYR, LV Wind
(headache, head wind with pain behind the eat, toothache, throat painful obstruction) - Calms the mind
(insomnia, mania, agitation of the HT, dark urine)
* famous point for SLEEP
GB 12
Which point:
- IMPORTANT POINT FOR MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
1. Calms the mind (schizophrenia, split personality, feelings of jealousy and suspicion, anxiety, constant worry, fixed thought)
2. Eliminate wind and resolve phlegm and epilepsy (for internal wind) - wind stroke, epilepsy, dizziness
3. Gathers essence to the head and clears the brain - BRINGS UP THE KD ESSENCE TO NOURISH AND CLEAR THE BRAIN (H/A, visual dizziness)
GB 13
Which point:
- Eliminates wind, benefits the head and alleviates pain
- Subdues rising Qi
- facial paralysis (difficulty forming ridges on the forehead by raising the eyebrows)
- twitching
- chills
- w-c headache
- lacrimation on exposure to wind
- night blindness
GB 14