Spleen Flashcards
Command Chart
1: JingWell
2: YingSpring
3: ShuStream
4: Luo
5: JingRiver
6: Meeting pr of SP LV and KD
8: XiCleft
9: HeSea
21: Great Luo
1***
- Stops Bleeding
- Regulates the SP
- Calms the HT and Spirit, restores consciousness
- Unbinds the Chest
JingWell, Wood, Ghost Pt
+Hemorrhage (Trickling and flooding menorrhagia)
+Mental Disorders
–Insomnia w excessive or restless dreams and nightmares
+Dampness swelling and fullness pertain to the SP
+Fullness below the HT
2**
- Regulates the SP
- Resolves dampness and damp-heat
- Harmonizes the middle burner and CLEARS HEAT
Ying Spring, fire, mother pt, bias towards EXCESS
+Excess dampness/damp heat w/ underlying SP def
+Heat in the ST and intestines
+Febrile disease with absence of sweating
+Local disorders of big toe
3***
- TONIFIES the SP, rsolves dampness/damp heat
- Harmonizes the SP and ST
- Regulates Qi
ShuStream = Yuan Source, earth, bias toward DEFICIENCY
+SP DEFICIENCY with consequent dampness or obstruction of Qi
- -Digestive disorders
- -Heaviness of the body and pain of the joints
4**
- Fortifies the SP and harmonizes the middle burner, regulates Qi and resolves dampness
- Benefits the HT and Spirit
- Regulates the PENETRATING VESSEL
Luo, confluent pt of penetrating vessel, bias toward EXCESS conditions
\+Disorders of the SP, ST and intestines --Epigastric pain, abdominal distention/pain (+PC6) \+Disorders of the HT and Spirit -Heart pain, chest pain (+PC6) \+Disorders of the Chong Mai (+PC6) \+Local
5**
- Fortifies the SP and Resolves damp
- Benefits the sinews and bones
- Calms the spirit
JingRiver, metal, favore for EXCESS conditions
\+Dampness (exterior/interior --Thick greasy T couating and slippery pulse \+Damp painful obstruction \+Tongue - stiffness and pain at the root \+Mental disorders
6**
- Tonifies the SP/ST, resolves dampness
- Harmonizes the lower burner (SP, LV, KD)
- –Regulates Urination
- –Benefits the genitals
- –Regulates teh menses and induces labor
- Benefits the HT and calms the spirit
- Harmonizes, invigorates and cools blood
- Activates channel and alleviates pain
- Meeting Pt of SP, LV, KD*
- Contra in pregnancy*
\+SP disorders of any kind --Dysfunction of transportation and transformation --Blood Def --Qi sinking --Qi not holding blood --Dampness \+All disorders of the lower burner --OB/GYN, sexual/genital, urinary \+Insomnia of any kind (+HT7) \+Skin diseases (+SP10, BL17) \+Local
1 vs 3 vs 4 vs 6
1:
-Focus on “wrapping blood” and stops bleeding
3:
-More TONIFYING, bias toward SP deficiency
4:
-More MOVING, keep in mind its relationship with Chong Mai/Penetrating Vessel, good for abdominal pain, bias to EXCESS
6:
-Tonifies and moves, keep in mind it is the meeting pt of SP, LV, KD, DEF AND EXCESS, widest range of indications among the SP points
8***
- Regulates menstruation and invigorates blood
- Harmonizes SP and Resolves dampness
- Moderates acute conditions
Xi-Cleft
+GYN disorders
+Acute conditions
+Dampness
9**
- Regulates SP and resolves damp
- Opens and moves the waterways
- Benefits the lower burner
HeSea, Water
+Dampness (damp-heat, cold-damp)
–Lower, Middle, Upper burner, edema
+Local
SP9 vs CV3 vs CV9
SP9:
- TRANSFORMS dampness by regulating the SPs function of transportation and transformation
- Focus more on the MIDDLE AND LOWER burner
CV3:
- DRAINS dampness by promoting the bladder’s function of Qi transformation and diuresis
- Focus more on LOWER AND MIDDLE burner
CV9:
- Regulates the water passages by working on the SMALL INTESTINE’s function of “seperating the clear from the turbid”
- Better for edema of the ABDOMINAL region
10**
- Invigorates blood and dispels stasis
- Cools blood
- Harmonizes menstruation
- Benefits the skin
“Sea of Blood”
Cool and moving in nature
+GYN disorders
+Skin disorders
+SP10 can treat all blood diseases***
+Local
15**
-Moves Qi and regulates the intestines
+Intestinal disorders
- -Constipation
- -Diarrhea
21**
- Regulates Qi and Blood, firms the sinews and joints
- Unbinds the chest and benefits the lateral costal region
Great Luo connecting Pt
+Pain of the whole body, weariness of the four limbs: GB34, LI11, BL10
+Pain in the chest and lateral costal region
+Cough, wheezing
