Spleen channel Flashcards

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What are the five functions of the Spleen?

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  1. Dominating the transformation and transportation of the liquid and solid products of digestion after they have been rotten and ripened by the Stomach
  2. Controls blood, dominating the first stage of its formation and holding it in its proper place
  3. Dominating the muscles and four limbs, providing vigour and bulk
  4. Opening into the mouth and dominating the sense of taste
  5. Controlling the raising of Qi to counteract sinking and prolapse
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What is SP1?

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Yin Bai / Hidden White
Jing-Well and Wood point
Sun Si-Miao Ghost Point

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What are the actions of SP1?

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o Stops bleeding
o Regulates Spleen
o Unbinds Chest
o Calms the Heart and restores consciousness

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What are the indications of SP1?

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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.

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5
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What is SP2?

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Da Du / Great metropolis

Ying-Spring and Fire point

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What are the actions of SP2?

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o Regulates the Spleen
o Resolves dampness and clears damp-heat
o Harmonises middle-jiao and clears heat
o Calms the Shen

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What are the indications of SP2?

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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.

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What is SP3?

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Tai Bai / Supreme White
Shu-Stream and Earth point
Yuan-Source point

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What are the actions of SP3?

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o	Strengthens the Spleen 
o	Resolves dampness and damp-heat 
o	Harmonises the Spleen and Stomach 
o	Regulates Qi 
o	Stimulates the intellect (Yi)
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What are the indications of SP3?

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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

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11
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What is SP4?

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Gong Sun / Grandfather Grandson
Luo-Connecting Point
Master point of Chong Mai

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What are the actions of SP4?

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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

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What are the indications of SP4?

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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

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14
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What is SP5?

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Shang Qiu / Shang Mound

Jing-River and Metal point

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What are the actions of SP5?

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o Strengthens the Spleen and resolves dampness
o Benefits sinews and bones
o Calms the Shen

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What are the indications of SP5?

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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

17
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What is SP6?

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San Yin Jiao / Three Yin Intersection

Meeting point of Spleen, Liver and Kidney Channels

18
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What are the actions of SP6?

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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

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What are the indications of SP6?

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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

20
Q

What is SP8?

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Di Ji / Earth Pivot

Xi-Cleft point

21
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What are the actions of SP8?

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o Regulates menstruation and invigorates blood
o Harmonises the Spleen and resolves Dampness
o Treats acute conditions and pain

22
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What are the indications of SP8?

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o Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhoea, abdominal masses

o Pain in abdomen, poor appetite, diarrhoea, difficult urination

23
Q

What is SP9?

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Yin Ling Quan / Yin Mound Spring

He-Sea and water point

24
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What are the actions of SP9?

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o Regulates Spleen and resolves dampness
o Opens and moves the water passages
o Benefits the lower jiao

25
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What are the indications of SP9?

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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

26
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What is SP10?

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Xue Hai / Sea of Blood

27
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What are the actions of SP10?

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o Invigorates blood and dispels stasis
o Cools blood
o Harmonises menstruation
o Benefits skin

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What are the indications of SP10?

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o Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhoea, amenorrhoea, uterine bleeding, uterine bleeding with clots
o Urticaria, eczema, herpes zoster, itching of genitals, leukorrhoea, lin syndrome

29
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What is SP15?

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Da Heng / Great horizontal

30
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What are the actions of SP15?

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Moves qi and regulates the intestines

31
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What are the indications of SP15?

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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

32
Q

What is SP20?

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Zhou Rong / Encircling Glory

33
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What are the actions for SP20?

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o Regulates and descends qi and unbinds the chest

34
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What are the indications of SP20?

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o Fullness in chest and costal region, cough and SOB

35
Q

What is SP21?

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Da Bao / Great Wrapping

Great Luo Connecting point of the Spleen

36
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What are the actions of SP21?

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o Regulates qi and blood
o Benefits the sinews and joints
o Unbinds the chest and benefits the lateral costal region

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What are the indications of SP21?

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o Pain of whole body, weakness in the four limbs
o Flaccidity of the 100 joints
o Cough, chest pain