Lung Channel Flashcards

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Where does the lung primary channel originate?

A

Middle jiao in the region of the Stomach

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What does the lung primary channel descend to and connect with?

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Large intestine

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The lung primary channel connects with the following zangfu?

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Stomach, Large intestine, Lung

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What are the pathological symptoms of the Lung sinew channel?

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Cramping and pain along the course of the channel. When severe there is accumulation of lumps below the right lateral costal region, tension along the lateral costal region and spitting of blood

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Where is the Lung sinew channel, and which points does it attach to?

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Originates at Lu11. Emerges in region of St12, travels to L15

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The Lung has 5 principle functions, which?

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* Governing qi and controlling respiration * Controlling disseminating and descending * Regulating the water passages * Controlling the skin and body hair * Opening into the nose

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Summarize some of the symptoms that the Lung channel can treat

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Respiratory disorders (coughing, dyspnoea, wheezing, asthma, shortness of breath) Nasal disorders (nose bleed and obstruction) Treating the throat (dryness, soreness, congestion, swelling and pain) Treating oedema and obstructed urination when this is caused by impairment of the Lung’s function of regulating the water passages and controlling disseminating and descending Treating vomiting due to rebellion of Stomach qi

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What are the actions of Lu1?

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Disseminates and descends Lung qi and alleviates cough and wheezing Transforms phlegm, clears heat and regulates water passages Descends Stomach qi

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What are indications for Lu1?

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Cough, dyspnea, asthma, fullness of chest, breathing with raised shoulders, oppression of the chest and difficulty breathing Heat in chest, aversion to cold, chills and fever, sweating Throat painful obstruction, nasal congestion, swelling of the face Difficult ingestion, vomiting, Gall Bladder heat vomiting, retching, abdominal distention Skin pain, running piglet qi with lumbar pain, goitre, pain of upper back and shoulders

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10
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How do you needle Lu1?

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Transverse-oblique, 0,5-1 cun medially allong the intercostal space

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How do you needle Lu2?

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Transverse-oblique 0,5-1 cun

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What are the actions of Lu2?

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Clears Lung heat and disseminates and descends Lung qi. Dispels agitation and fullness

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What are the indications of Lu2?

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Respiratory symptoms Pain lateral costal region and back Pain of the back and shoulders Pain of the shoulder with inability to raise the arm Pain of the supraclavicular fossa

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14
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Where is Lu3?

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3 cun inferior to the axillary fold and 6 cun superior to Lu-5, in the depression between the lateral border of the biceps brachii and the shaft of the humerus

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Location note of Lu3, if you divide the distance between the axillary fold and the cubital crease of the elbow into equal thirds, where is the Lu3?

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At the junction of the upper and middle third

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What are the actions of Lu3?

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Clears Lung heat and descends Lung qi Cools blood and stops bleeding Calms the corporeal soul

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What are the indications of Lu3?

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Respiratory symptoms, nosebleed, spitting blood, coughing blood Somnolence, insomnia, sadness, weeping, disorientation, and forgetfulness, floating corpse ghost-talk, melancholy crying ghost talk Goitre, swelling of throat, pain inner aspect of upper arm, dizziness, swelling and distention of the body, malaria, visual dizziness, short-sightedness

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What is the location of Lu4?

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4 cun inferior to axillary fold, the depression between the lateral border of biceps and shaft of humerus

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19
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How to needle Lu4?

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Perpendicular 0,5-1 cun

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What are the actions of Lu4?

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Descends Lung qi Regulates qi and blood in the chest

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What are the indications for Lu4?

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• Cough, dyspnoea, asthma, shortness of breath • Heart pain, palpitations, agitation and fullness, retching • Pain in medial aspects of the arm, purple-white wind blotches

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22
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Where is Lu5?

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Cubital crease of elbow, in the depression at the radial side of the tendon of biceps

23
Q

When needling Lu5 should you needle slightly lateral or immediately next to the biceps tendon? Why should you needle with the elbow flexed?

A

Slightly lateral, flexed to avoid cubital vein

24
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How to needle Lu5?

A

Perpendicular 0,5-1 cun

25
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What are the actions of Lu5?

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• Clears heat from Lung and descends rebellious qi • Regulates the water passages • Activates the channel • Relaxes the sinews and alleviates pain

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What are the indications for Lu5?

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• Cough, asthma, wheezing, dyspnoea, shortness of breath, agitation, fullness of chest • Tidal fever, taxation fever, shivering, malaria, dry mouth and tongue, throat painful obstruction, tendency to sneeze • Spitting blood, coughing blood, nosebleed, vomiting blood •Vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal distention • Swelling of the four limbs, enuresis, frequent urination • Pain of lateral costal region, Heart pain, agitation of Heart, sobbing with grief, acute and chronic childhood fright wind, epilepsy, chronic spasm • Coldness of the shoulder, pain of upper arm and shoulder, inability to raise the arm to the head,

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Q

How to needle Lu6?

A

Perpendicular or oblique 0,5-1,5 cun

28
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What is a good way to remember location of Lu6?

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Divide distance between Lu9 and Lu 5 into half, Lu6 is palpable depression 1 cun proximal to this midpoint

29
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What are the actions of Lu6?

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• Disseminates and descends Lung qi • Clears heat and moistens the Lung • Clears heat and stops bleeding • Moderates acute coniditions

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What are the indications of Lu6?

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• Cough, wheezing, asthma, chest pain, swelling and pain of the throat, loss of voice, febrile disease with absence of sweating • Coughing blood, spitting blood, vomiting blood, hiccup • Severe pain of the elbow and upper arm, inability to raise the arm above the head, difficulty in flexing and extending the fingers, epigastric pain, haemorrhoids, headache, clonic spasm

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Lu7 is situated about 1,5 cun proximally to Li5, in the cleft between which tendons?

A

Brachioradialis and abductor pollicis longus

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How to needle Lu7?

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Pinch up the skin over the point, needle transversaly in a proximal or distal direction, 0,5 to 1 cun, avoiding the cephalic vein

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What is the actions of Lu7?

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• Releases the exterior and expels wind • Promotes the descending function of the Lung • Pacifies the wind and phlegm • Benefits the head and nape • Opens and regulates the Conception vessel • Regulates the water passages • Activates the channel and alleviates pain

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What are the indications of Lu7?

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• Chills and fever, nasal congestion and discharge, nasal polyps, flaring of the nostrils, throat painful obstruction, cough, coughing up phlegm, wheezing, dyspnoea, asthma, diminished qi and shortness of breath, heat of the chest and back, shivering and cold of the chest and back, sweating, sudden swelling of the four limbs, thirst, inversion counterflow of the four limbs • Headache and stiffness of the neck and nape, onesided headache, lockjaw, hemiplegia, deviation of the mouth and eye, tootache, epilepsy, childhood fright-epilepsy, acute childhood fright wind, loss of consciousness, vomiting of foamy (watery) saliva, wind painful obstruction, hypertension • Retention of lochia, retention of the dead foetus, postpartum inability to speak, blood in the urine, hot and painful urination, difficult urination, pain of the penis, pain of the genitals, seminal emission • Poor memory, palpitations, propensity to laughter, frequent yawning and stretching, tension of the chest and back, fullness of the lateral costal region, breast abscess • Weakness or pain of the wrist and hand, pain of the thumb, shoulder pain, heat in the palm, malaria

35
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On Lu7, the direction of the needle is dependent upon?

A

Whether treating the hand (toward the hand) or treating all other purposes (toward the elbow)

36
Q

Where is Lu8?

A

Above the wrist, in the depression at the base of processus styloideus of radius and on the radial side of the radial artery

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What are the indications of Lu8?

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• Cough, asthma, wheezing, dyspnoea, distention and pain of the chest and upper back, sore throat, throat painful obstruction, febrile disease with abscence of sweating, febrile disease with breathlessness, heat in the palms • Heart pain with vomiting, wrist pain, malaria, much yawning, pain in the soles of the feet

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Pain in the sole is usually due either to?

A

Deficiency of the Kidneys or to phlegm and dampness pouring downards

39
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How to needle Lu8?

A

Oblique proximal or perpendicular insertion 0,3-0,5 cun, avoiding the radial artery

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What are the actions of Lu8?

A

Descends Lung qi and alleviates cough and wheezing

41
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Where is Lu9?

A

Wrist joint, depression between radial artery and tendon of abductor pollicis longus

42
Q

How to needle Lu9?

A

Perpendicular 0,3-0,5 cun avoiding the radial artery

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What are the actions of Lu9?

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• Tonifies the Lung and transforms phlegm • Promotes the descending function of the Lung • Regulates and hormonises the one hundred vessels • Activates the channel and alleviates pain

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Indications for Lu9?

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• Cough, cough with watery phlegm, asthma, wheezing, dyspnoea, shortness of breath, much yawning, heat in the palms, dry throat, oppression and agitation of the chest with difficult breathing and inability to lie down • Spitting blood, coughing blood, vomiting blood, agitation with Heart pain accompanied by choppy pulse, manic raving, pulseless syndrome • Rebellion of Stomach qi, belching, superficial visual obstruction, redness and pain of the eyes, cold shivering, cold inversion, tootache, head wind, swelling of the face • Weakness or pain of the wrist, pain of the shoulder and back, pain of the supraclavicular fossa, pain in the inner aspect of the arm, breast pain

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What is the single most important point in the Lung channel to tonify the qi or yin of the Lung channel? And why?

A

Lu9, it is the earth and thus mother point of the metal zang

46
Q

What is the location of Lu10?

A

Thenar eminence of the hand, in a depression between the midpoint of the shaft of the first metacarpal bone and the thenar muscles

47
Q

How to needle Lu10?

A

Perpendicular 0,5-1 cun

48
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What are the actions of Lu10?

A

Benefits the throat Clears Lung heat Descends rebellious qi Harmonises the Stomach and Heart

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What are the indications for Lu10?

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• Throat painful obstruction, sore throat, dry throat, loss of voice • Cough with absense of sweating, cough leading to hypogastric sacral pain, cough accompanied by hiccup, shortness of breath with Heart painful obstruction, diminished qi with Heart painful obstruction, chest painful obstruction with inability to catch the breath • Deficiency heat, heat in the body, aversion to cold, attack of wind and cold after intake of alcohol leading to chills and fever • Coughing blood, vomiting blood, blood in the urine • Agitation of the Heart, sadness and fear, anger and mania, sadness and anger with counterflow qi, Heart painful obstruction with fear and fright • Yellow tongue coating, breast abscess, tootache, lacrimation, visual dizziness, genital damp itching, impotence with abdominal distention, headache, malaria, tetany • Abdominal pain with inability to eat or drink, sudden turmoil disorder, oesophageal constriction due to middle jiao deficiency, vomiting, childhood nutritional impairment • Heat and pain of the palm and thumb, contraction of the elbow with distention and fullness of the arm

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Where is Lu11?

A

On the extensor aspect of thumb, along the radial border of the nail and the base of the nail, approximately 0,1 cun from the corner of the nail

51
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How to needle Lu11?

A

Perpendicular or oblique insertion directed proximally 0,1-0,2 cun, or prick to bleed

52
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What are the actions of Lu11?

A

• Revives consciousness • Clears heat and benefits the throat

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What are indications for Lu11?

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• Loss of consciousness from windstroke, loss of consciousness, cold inversion, hot inversion • Sore throat, throat painful obstruction, childhood throat moth, mumps, lotus flower tongue, nosebleed, dry lips with desire to drink, febrile disease with cold shivering • Agitation (of the Heart) with cough and dysponea, fullness of the Heart with sweating, fullness below the Heart, mania, childhood fright wind, malaria, vomiting • Pain and contraction of the wrist, pain of the thumb, heat of the palms, painful obstruction of the upper arm, pain of the front of the ear