Governing Vessel Flashcards

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What is the governing vessel understood as?

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It is understood to be the channel that ascends through the spine to the brain.

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What does the governing vessel enter?

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Ascends both inside the spine and alongside the spine
Primary channel enters the brain at DU16 and at the vertex
Primary channel enters the kidneys, passes through the heart, winds around the anus, winds around the external genitals.

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What are the actions of the Governing Vessel?

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Connected to the pathways and relationships with the kidneys, heart and brain.

  1. Treats diseases of the anus, rectum and intestines. Haemorrhoids, prolapse of rectum and intestinal disorders.
  2. Treating diseases of the genitals and urinary system, and uterus. Painful urinary dysfunction, urinary retention or difficultly seminal emission and menstrual disturbance.
  3. Treats disorders of the spine.
  4. Treats febrile diseases and reduces heat in the body.
  5. Treats diseases of ZangFu
  6. Treats disorders of exterior or interior wind
  7. Treats disorders of the sense organs
  8. Treats disorders of heart zang
  9. Treats disorders of the brain and spirit.
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What is GV1 / DU1?

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CHANGQIANG / Long Strong
Luo-connecting point of the GV
Meeting point of GV with CV, GB and KID

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What are the actions of GV1?

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Treats haemorrhoids
Benefits two lower yin
Activates the channels and alleviates pain
Calms the spirit

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What are the indications of GV1?

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  1. Haemorrhoids, blood in stool, prolapse of rectum
  2. Painful urinary dysfunction, difficult urination, dark urine
  3. Pain of lumbar region, stiffness of spine
  4. Mania, fright, epilepsy
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What is GV4?

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MingMen / Gate of Life

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What are the functions of GV4?

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Clears heat
Regulates governing vessel
Tonifies the kidneys
Benefits the Lumbar spine

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What are the indications of GV4?

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  1. Heat in the body, absence of sweating, malaria with alternating chills and fever
  2. Tinnitus, dizziness, headache, epilepsy
  3. Seminal emission
  4. Prolapse of rectum, haemorrhoids, blood in the stool
  5. Stiffness of lumbar spine, pain of lumbar radiating to abdomen, kidney deficiency lumbar pain
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What is GV6?

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JiZhong / Centre of the Spine

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What are the actions of GV6?

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Fortifies the Spleen and drains damp

Benefits the spine

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What are the indications of GV6?

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  1. Abdominal fullness with no pleasure to eat, abdominal masses, jaundice, diarrhoea, blood in stool
  2. Stiffness of lumbar spine, wind epilepsy, warm febrile disease
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What is GV8?

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JinSuo / Sinew Contraction

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What are the actions of GV8?

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Soothes the Liver, pacifies wind and relieves spasm

Calms the spirit

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What are the indications of GV8?

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  1. Upward staring eyes, clonic spasm, epilepsy, stiffness of the spine and pain of the heart
  2. Mania, mad walking, incessant talking, jaundice, anger infuriating the liver.
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What is GV11?

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ShenDao / Spirit pathway

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What are the actions of GV11?

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Tonifies the Heart and Lung and calms the spirit

Clears heat and pacifies wind

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What are the indications of GV11?

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  1. Sadness and anxiety, poor memory, fright palpitations, timidity with SOB, lack of qi
  2. Childhood wind epilepsy, clonic spasm, childhood fright wind
  3. Fever due to injury by cold with headache, heat in the Liver
  4. Pain and cold sensation of upper back.
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What is GV12?

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ShenZhu / Body Pillar

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What are the actions of GV12?

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Clears heat from the Lung and Heart
Calms the Spirit
Pacifies Wind

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What are the indications of GV12?

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  1. Heat in the chest, dyspnoea, sudden cough with lumbar pain, heat in the body, dry mouth, agitation with thirst, headache and sweating
  2. Delirious raving, seeing ghosts, rage with desire to kill people
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What is GV14?

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DazHui / Great Vertebra
Meeting point of the governing vessel with the six yang channels of the hand and foot
Point of the sea of qi

23
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What are the actions of GV14?

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Expels wind and firms the exterior 
Clears heat 
Treats malaria 
Tonifies deficiency 
Pacifies wind
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What are the indications of GV14?

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  1. Injury by cold leading to high fever, aversion to wind with shivering, chills and fever, warm malaria
  2. Deficiency sweating, night sweating, steaming bone disorder
  3. Epilepsy, chronic and acute, insomnia, vomiting blood
  4. Stiffness of the spine, stiffness of the nape and neck with the inability to turn the head.
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What is GV15?

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YaMen / Gate of Muteness
Meeting point of the governing and yang linking vessels
Point of the sea of Qi

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What are the actions of Gv15?

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Benefits the tongue and treats muteness
Eliminates wind
Benefits the neck and spine

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What are the indications of GV15?

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  1. Stiffness of the tongue with inability to speak, loss of voice
  2. Heaviness of the head, head wind, loss of consciousness from windstroke, epilepsy
  3. Absence of sweating, chills and fever, nosebleed that does not stop
  4. Stiffness of the neck, stiffness of the spine, sprain of the spine
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What is Gv17?

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NaoHu / Brains Door

Meeting of the Gv vessel with the bladder channel

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What are the actions of Gv17?

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Eliminates wind and alleviates pain
Benefits the eyes
Calms the spirit

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What are the indications of GV17?

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Heaviness of the head, head wind, aversion to wins in the head, stiffness and pain of the head
Dimness of vision, short sightedness, eye pain, yellow eyes
Mania, epilepsy, loss of voice.

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What is GV20?

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BaiHui / Hundred meetings
Meeting point of GV, bladder, GB, SJ and Liver channel
Point of the Sea of Marrow

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What are the actions of GV20?

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Pacifies wind and subdues yang 
Raises yang and counters prolapse 
Benefits the head and sense organs 
Nourishes the sea of marrow 
Benefits the brain and calms the spirit
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What are the indications of GV20?

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Head wind, one sided headache, pain of the vertex, heaviness of the head, dizziness, tinnitus, protruding eyes, blindness
Windstroke, loss of consciousness
Prolapse of rectum, prolapse of uterus

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What is GV24?

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ShenTing / Courtyard of the spirit

Meeting point of the GV with the Bladder and Stomach channels

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What are the actions of GV24?

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Benefits the brain and calms the spirit
Eliminates wind and benefits the head
Benefits the nose and eyes

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What are the indications of GV24?

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Mania-depression, insomnia, loss of consciousness, tongue thrusting
Wind dizziness. head wind, headache with chills and fever
Nasal discharge, nasal congestion

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What is GV26?

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RenZhong / Mans middle
Meeting point of GV with LI and Stomach channels
Sun Si-Miao Ghost point

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What are the actions of GV26?

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Restores consciousness and calms the spirit
Benefits the face and nose, expels wind
Benefits the spine and treats acute lumbar sprain

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What are the indications of GV26?

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Sudden loss of consciousness, coma, mania depression, epilepsy, ceaseless nosebleed, clear nasal discharge, stiffness and pain of the spine