Lung Channel Of Hand Taiyin

Question 1

Actions

-Clears LU-HEAT and Descends LU-Qi

♦️COOLS BLOOD and Stops bleeding

Calms the corporeal soul ( ‘Po’)

(WINDOW OF HEAVEN POINT)
⭐️these points treat sudden onset…

Indications
🔹LU Heat, esp (LV)- WOOD-FIRE Scorching the Metal
- bouts of spasmotic coughing with a red face, dyspnea or asthma induced/ worsened by anger, thirst.

NOSEBLEED. Spitting blood (+ LI 4)

🔸’Window of Heaven’

• Goitre, eye disorders (visual dizziness, short-sightedness)
• Children who get asthma from nightmares
• Somnolence, sadness, weeping, muddled thinking

🔸Pain in medial upper arm

Answer 1

LU 3

Question 2

Actions

♦️Special Point For Clearing Phelgm!!

• Disseminates and Descends LU-Qi
  TRANSFORMS PHLEGM, CLEARS HEAT
  Alleviates cough and wheezing
• Regulates the water passages
• Descends ST-Qi

Front-Mu Point ➡️ LU organ, + BL 13
Meeting point of LU and SP ➡️ Phlegm

Indications

Deficiency/ EXCESS patterns of all LU disorders,
Bias towards HEAT penetrating deeply into chest,
esp with accumulation of PHLEGM ( focus is on clearing excess phlegm)
–coughing/wheezing/dyspnea/fullness of chest
Heavy yellow/green phlegm, fever

‘Upper source of Water’ - lid of teapot
- Yang edema, acute swelling of the face d/t attack of exterior wind

Dual disharmony of the LU and ST
- difficult digestion, vomiting, abdominal distention

Answer 2

LU 1

Question 3

Actions

• Clears LU- HEAT (excess/def), Descends REBELLIOUS QI (LU/ST)
• Regulates Water Passages
• Activates the LU Channel
• Relaxes the sinews and Alleviates pain

🔹He-Sea, Water, Child Point
🔹Best for excess conditions of LU

Indications

*Used for Diarrhea and Vomiting
♦️All forms of LU Heat
🔺 excess/deficient, exterior/interior, acute /chronic
- excess heat: fullness in the chest, expectoration of heavy yellow/
green/brown phlegm, agitation
(+ST 40, LU 1: to resolve phlegm and clear heat)
- Deficient Heat: tital fever, taxation heat dry mouth
( + LU 9, BL43, KD 3: to nourish yin and moisten the lung)

🔹’Counterflow Qi and Diarrhea’ —ST-Qi Rebellion
- vomiting, abdominal distention, diarrhea

🔹Bleeding from Heat
-Coughing/ spitting/ vomiting blood, nosebleed

🔹Disorders of Water Metabolism ( upper limb or the whole body)

• Excess: urinary retention, swelling of four limbs
  
  • Deficiency: enuresis, frequent urination

🔹Heart (LU/HT: Upper burner)

🔹Swelling and Pain in Upper limb or the whole body
- tennis elbow, wind painful obstruction syndrome
- ‘cranes knee wind’ ( cross- connection needling)
- ‘5 types of lumbar pain’ ( mirror point of BL 40)
(Elbow and knees are mirror joints) LU 5 and BL 40 are (2 command points for lower back) used for mirroring

Answer 3

LU 5

Question 4

• Disseminates and Descends LU-Qi
• Clears heat and Moistens the lung
• Clears heat and Stops 🔹BLEEDING🔹
• Moderates 🔹ACUTE🔹Conditions

🔹XI CLEFT Point

• -ACUTE Conditions and PAIN
• -BLEEDING Disorders

Indications
For🔺Acute Cough, Wheezing, Asthma
–From EXTERIOR Pathogens of Wind- Heat or Wind-Dryness
🔺All Kinds of BLEEDING from the Lungs
– Hemoptysis d/t Wind-Dryness, Wind- Heat,
Phlegm-Heat, LV-LU Disharmony, Yin Def.
🔹Pain along the LU Channel
-Pain in the chest, elbow and Arm, Difficulty in Flexing and
extending the fingers, inability to Raise the arm above the
head.

Answer 4

LU 6

Question 5

• Releases the 🔺EXTERIOR🔺 and Expels WIND
• Pacifies wind and Descends Phlegm
• Benefits the 🔺HEAD and Nape of NECK🔺

🔹LUO CONNECTING Point
🔹FOUR COMMANDS POINTS

-Promotes Descending function of LU
-Regulates the Water Passages
-Activates Channel and Alleviates Pain
-Opens and Regulates 🔺REN MAI🔺
🔹CONFLUENT PT of Conception Vessel, LU 7 +
KD 6

Indications
♦️EXTERIOR/INTERIOR WIND DISORDERS ♦️
- 🔹Exterior Wind-Cold, Wind-Heat, Wind-Dryness:
Chills, fever, H/A, Neck/Shoulder/Back pain
Cough, Asthma, Wheezing, Acute Swelling of
face or limbs.
♦️MAIN POINT FOR COMMON COLD♦
♦️the MOST EXTERiOR Acting of LU CH. PTs
+LI 4, TW5, GB20, GV16, BL12 to Strengthen the
action of expelling Wind.
–🔹Interior Wind-Phlegm
( facial paralysis, lockjaw,epilepsy, hemiplegia)
–🔹Other: Wind painful obstruction, numbness of
The whole body.

♦️HEADACHES♦️, Stiffness of The Neck and Nape
🔹Genito-Urinary Disorders ( CONFLUENT point
Of CV)
– Retention of Lochia, Retention of dead fetus.
– Pain of the genitals, seminal emission
– Hot, Painful and difficult urination, blood in urine
🔹Psycho- Emotional Disorders (LUO Point)
– Poor Memory, frequent yawning and stretching,
Propensity to laughter
🔹Disorders of the LU Channel
– Weakness or Pain of the wrist, heat in the palm
Pain of the thumb joint and index finger.

Answer 5

LU 7

Question 6

🔹LU 5: He-Sea point, Water pt, Child pt.
– All forms of LU- Heat

🔹LU 6: Xi-Cleft point
– ACUTE Cough/Asthma/BLEEDING from LU

🔹LU 7: LUO-Connecting pt.

- - the MOST EXTERIOR-ACTING of LU Channel
- -Indicated for ALL WIND Disorders
- -Primary point for the Head and Nape of Neck
- -CONFLUENT Pt. of CV, for GU disorders

Answer 6

LU 5
LU 6
LU 7

Question 7

♦️TONIFIES the Lung (Qi and YIN) Transforms
PHLEGM d/t Lung DEFICIENCY
( Yuan-Source, Shu Stream, Earth, Mother Pt)
-Promotes Defending Function of the Lung
-Regulates and Harmonizes Vessels
🔹HUI-MEETING PT of VESSELS..helps HTN
-Activates Lung Channel and Alleviates Pain

Indications
♦️LUNG DEFICIENCY: Chronic weak coughing/ Wheezing
-LU Qi Def: Sob, Frequent Yawning, COPIOUS WATERY
PHLEGM, Fatigue
-LU Yin Def: Dry cough, with SCANTY DRY PHLEGM,
or streaks of blood, malar flush, 5-Palm heat.

♦️SINGLE MOST IMP POINT TO TONIFY on LUNG Channel♦️

🔹Stagnation of Gathering Qi
- Fullness /Oppression of Chest w/inability to lie down
🔹Disorders of Blood Vessels
- pulseless syndrome, Heart Pain w/Choppy pulse
🔹Pain along the Course of Lung Channel..

Answer 7

LU 9

Question 8

♦️EXTERIOR EXCESS♦️

• Affects Qi.
• EMOTIONAL Component
• Weak at Phlegm Transformation.

                  vs

🔹INTERIOR DEFICIENT🔹

• Affects Qi and Blood
• NO Emotional Component
• Resolves PHLEGM

Answer 8

LU 7 (LUO pt)

Vs

LU 9 (Shu Stream, Mother pt. Tonifys)
         (Earth Corresponds to Dampness)

Question 9

-Benifits the Throat
-Clears LU Heat
(🔹YING-SPRING, FIRE POINT🔹)
-Descends Rebellious Qi
-Harmonizes the ST and HT

Indications
♦️THROAT Disorders Characterized by HEAT/
DRYNESS, no matter Excess or Deficiency
-Pain, Swelling, Congestion, Dryness of throat,
Loss of Voice
♦️LUNG HEAT ( Any Inflammation of the lungs or
Throat)
- Excess Heat, Phelgm-Heat (LU1/5),
Yin Def Heat ( KD6)
- Bleeding d/t heat: coughing blood, vomiting blood
Blood in Urine (LU- Heat–>HT–>SI–>BL)

• LU-Heat–>HT: Agitation, mania, anger
• LU-Heat–>ST: Breast abscess, toothache

🔹Local pain and Heat in Palm/ Thumb

Answer 9

LU10

Question 10

• Clears LU- Heat and Benefits the Throat

🔹Main Point for Extreme SORE THROAT d/t
EXCESS
- Revives Consciousness ( JING WELL, Ghost Pt)
(focus more on excess head and mental
disorders b/c it’s a Jing Well Pt)
♦️All ACUTE THROAT Disorders d/t EXCESS
HEAT or POISON
- Sore Throat d/t wind-heat, tonsillitis, mumps
- 🔺LU 10 vs LU 11: EXCESS and DEF vs Only Excess
- Mental Disorders
- Loss of Consciousness ( from Windstroke), mania
Epilepsy, Childhood fright Wind
- Spasmodic pain of Thumb

Answer 10

LU 11