Point Combos Large Intestine

Question 1

Promote resuscitation and clear heat

Answer 1

Li 1
All jing wells have action of promote resuscitation

Clinically, needle Li 2 for children’s fever, and bleed Li 1 for severe children’s fever

Question 2

What are the three cases in which we use the four gates?

Answer 2

Excess pattern
Internal Liver Wind (like pans syndrome)
Dysmenorrhea (qi and blood stagnation)
Syncope

Question 3

which point is used for both external and internal wind?

Answer 3

Li 4

Question 4

External Wind

Answer 4

Li 4
Lu 7
(As you can see, this is particularly good for wind cold, but for test purposes it’s now just all external wind)

Gb 20 (wind pond)
Du 16 (wind palace)
Ub 12 (wind gate)

Question 5

Internal Wind

Answer 5

Li 4
Lv 3
(Four gates, I guess they are talking about excess wind)

Question 6

Bell’s Palsy

Answer 6

Li 4 (command point of face)
Thread St 4-6 (local)

Question 7

Toothache

Answer 7

Li 4 (command point of face)
St 4 (local to mouth)
St 44 (because St 44 and Li 4 are the distal face points)

Question 8

Easy Labor
(When she has qi and blood stagnation)

Answer 8

Sp 6
Ub 67
(These are the basic labor points)

Add Li4 for qi and blood stagnation

(Note: if it’s due to qi and blood deficiency — she has no “power to push” — use St 36 instead of Li 4)

Question 9

Which point(s) on Li channel are contraindicated during pregnancy?

Answer 9

Li 4

Question 10

Yang Edema

Answer 10

Li 6 (Luo connecting)

Lu 7
Li 4
(Wind cold)

Ub 39 (lower he sea of san jiao)

If it’s local to the face, add Du 26 (local point of the face)

Question 11

Which is the xi cleft?

Answer 11

Li 7

Clinically, use this for acute LI pain! (Don’t need to know this for exams.) it’s called warm flow

Question 12

Tonify Qi and Blood

Answer 12

Li 10
St 36

Hand and foot three village points on yang ming channels
Yang ming channels have abundant qi and blood