Spleen channel Flashcards
What are the five functions of the Spleen?
- Dominating the transformation and transportation of the liquid and solid products of digestion after they have been rotten and ripened by the Stomach
- Controls blood, dominating the first stage of its formation and holding it in its proper place
- Dominating the muscles and four limbs, providing vigour and bulk
- Opening into the mouth and dominating the sense of taste
- Controlling the raising of Qi to counteract sinking and prolapse
What is SP1?
Yin Bai / Hidden White
Jing-Well and Wood point
Sun Si-Miao Ghost Point
What are the actions of SP1?
o Stops bleeding
o Regulates Spleen
o Unbinds Chest
o Calms the Heart and restores consciousness
What are the indications of SP1?
o Uterine bleeding, blood in the urine, blood in the stool, vomiting blood, nosebleed.
o Abdominal distension, sudden swelling of four limbs, sudden diarrhoea, vomiting
o Agitation, heat or fullness in chest, sadness, mania depression, excessive dreaming, insomnia, loss of consciousness
o Fever without sweat, cold feet, cold in lower limbs.
What is SP2?
Da Du / Great metropolis
Ying-Spring and Fire point
What are the actions of SP2?
o Regulates the Spleen
o Resolves dampness and clears damp-heat
o Harmonises middle-jiao and clears heat
o Calms the Shen
What are the indications of SP2?
o Swelling of limbs, body heaviness
o Abdominal pain and distension, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, sudden turmoil
o Agitation, insomnia, heart pain, fever without sweating, cold hands and feet
o Lumbar pain with inability to turn, disorders of big toe, heat in soles of feet.
What is SP3?
Tai Bai / Supreme White
Shu-Stream and Earth point
Yuan-Source point
What are the actions of SP3?
o Strengthens the Spleen o Resolves dampness and damp-heat o Harmonises the Spleen and Stomach o Regulates Qi o Stimulates the intellect (Yi)
What are the indications of SP3?
o Spleen/Stomach deficiency, heavy body, heaviness in four limbs, borborygmus, diarrhoea, constipation, hemorrhoids
o Abdominal pain, chest and Heart pain
o Febrile disease with fullness and inability to lie down
o Pain in knee and thigh, joint pain, lumbar pain, atrophy disorder
What is SP4?
Gong Sun / Grandfather Grandson
Luo-Connecting Point
Master point of Chong Mai
What are the actions of SP4?
o Strengthens the Spleen and Harmonises the Middle Jiao
o Regulates Qi and resolves Dampness
o Benefits the Heart and chest, calms the Shen
o Regulates the Chong Mai
What are the indications of SP4?
o Epigastric pain, vomiting, no desire to eat, diarrhoea, tenesmus
o Mania-depression, manic raving, insomnia, Heart pain, gallbladder deficiency with much sighing
o Irregular menstruation, ob/gyn disorders, retention of placenta
o Swelling of head and face, oedema, jaundice, malaria
What is SP5?
Shang Qiu / Shang Mound
Jing-River and Metal point
What are the actions of SP5?
o Strengthens the Spleen and resolves dampness
o Benefits sinews and bones
o Calms the Shen
What are the indications of SP5?
o Spleen deficiency, somnolence, lethargy, abdominal distension, diarrhoea, constipation, jaudince, yellow face
o Stiffness and pain in root of tongue, impaired speech, cough, infertility, hemorrhoids
o Mania-depression, excessive thinking, laughter, nightmares, melancholy
o Pain and contraction of sinews, lockjaw, ankle pain, pain in inner thigh
What is SP6?
San Yin Jiao / Three Yin Intersection
Meeting point of Spleen, Liver and Kidney Channels
What are the actions of SP6?
o Tonifies Spleen and Stomach
o Tonifies blood and yin
o Resolves Dampness
o Harmonises Liver and tonifies Kidney
o Regulates urination and benefits genitals
o Calms the Shen
o Invigorates blood
o Activates the Channel and alleviates pain
o Regulates menstruation and Induces labour
What are the indications of SP6?
o Spleen/Stomach deficiency, heavy body, oedema, diarrhoea
o Irregular menstruation, uterine bleeding, dysmenorrhoea, abdominal masses, uterine prolapse
o Infertility, restless fetus, delayed labor
o Seminal emission, nocturnal emission, erectile dysfunction, contracted testicles
o Difficult urination, enuresis, lin syndrome
o Palpitations, insomnia
o Dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, hypertension
o Leg pain, bi syndrome, atrophy
What is SP8?
Di Ji / Earth Pivot
Xi-Cleft point
What are the actions of SP8?
o Regulates menstruation and invigorates blood
o Harmonises the Spleen and resolves Dampness
o Treats acute conditions and pain
What are the indications of SP8?
o Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhoea, abdominal masses
o Pain in abdomen, poor appetite, diarrhoea, difficult urination
What is SP9?
Yin Ling Quan / Yin Mound Spring
He-Sea and water point
What are the actions of SP9?
o Regulates Spleen and resolves dampness
o Opens and moves the water passages
o Benefits the lower jiao
What are the indications of SP9?
o Abdominal distension, pain in lower abdomen, jaundice, diarrhoea
o Oedema, swelling of limbs, retention of urine, difficult urination, enuresis
o Seminal emission, leukorrhea, pain in genitals, fullness below heart, fullness in lateral costal region
o Lumbar pain and swelling of knee
What is SP10?
Xue Hai / Sea of Blood
What are the actions of SP10?
o Invigorates blood and dispels stasis
o Cools blood
o Harmonises menstruation
o Benefits skin
What are the indications of SP10?
o Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea, uterine bleeding, uterine bleeding with clots
o Urticaria, eczema, herpes zoster, itching of genitals, leukorrhoea, lin syndrome
What is SP15?
Da Heng / Great horizontal
What are the actions of SP15?
Moves qi and regulates the intestines
What are the indications of SP15?
o Lower abdominal pain, diarrhoea, constipation, sadness, inability to raise the four limbs, copious sweating
o Chronic diarrhoea with mucus in the stools, chronic constipation due to deficiency
What is SP20?
Zhou Rong / Encircling Glory
What are the actions for SP20?
o Regulates and descends qi and unbinds the chest
What are the indications of SP20?
o Fullness in chest and costal region, cough and SOB
What is SP21?
Da Bao / Great Wrapping
Great Luo Connecting point of the Spleen
What are the actions of SP21?
o Regulates qi and blood
o Benefits the sinews and joints
o Unbinds the chest and benefits the lateral costal region
What are the indications of SP21?
o Pain of whole body, weakness in the four limbs
o Flaccidity of the 100 joints
o Cough, chest pain
