Spleen Foot Taiyin Flashcards
- Regulates the Spleen
- Resolves Dampness and Damp-Heat
- Harmonizes the middle burner and CLEARS HEATMOTHER POINT
– Bias toward EXCESS Conditions
Indications
🔹Excess Dampness/Damp Heat, w/underlying SP Def
- Sudden Swelling of limbs, Heaviness of the body with
pain of bones, oppression of chest
🔹Heat in the ST and Intestines
-Abdominal distention, epigastric pain, vomiting, diarrhea/Constipation
-Agitation when hungry and dizziness when full.
🔹”Febrile Disease with absence of Sweating”
🔹Local Disorders of big toe: “Gout”
🔸🔸🔸Spleen 2 (Ying Spring)
♦️STOPS BLEEDING ♦️ * Regulates the Spleen ♦️CALMS the HEART and SPIRIT * Restores Consciouness * Unbinds the Chest
Ghost point
Indications
🔺Hemmorrhage: Chronic ( sp def) lower burner, moxa
🔹Flooding and Trickling, menorrhagia ( LV 1); Blood in the
Urine/ stool, nosebleed, vomiting blood
🔺Mental Disorders
🔹 Insomnia w/ excessive or restless dreams and
nightmares ( ST 45), mania-depression, swelling of limbs,
diarrhea
🔹”Dampness, Swelling and Fullness pertain to SP🔹
- Acute abdominal distention, swelling of limbs, diarrhea
🔹”Fullness Below the Heart”
- Fullness in the chest and lateral coastal region, dyspnea
🔸🔸🔸Spleen 1 (Jing well)
♦️TONIFIES the Spleen, Resolves dampness/damp-heat
- Harmonizes the SP and ST
- Regulates Qi
🔹Earth Point of EARTH Channel
🔹Bias towards SP Deficiency
Indications
♦️SP Deficiency with Consequent Dampness or Obstruction
of Qi
- Digestive Disorders: Poor appetite, indigestion, vomiting
Epigastric/abdominal distention and Pain, Borborygmus
Diarrhea, undigested food in the stool, dysenteric
Disorder, constipation
- “Heaviness of the Body and Pain of the Joints”
Febrile disease with fullness/oppression and inability
To lie down or begins with heaviness of the head,
Wind-Damp Painful Obstruction, leg Qi, local joint
🔸🔸🔸SP 3 ( Shu Stream, Yuan Source)
-Fortifies the SP and Harmonizes the Middle Burner;
Regulates Qi and Resolves Dampness
-Benefits the HT and Spirit
-Regulates PENETRATING VESSEL
CONFLUENT PT of Penetrating Vessel
-Bias towards EXCESS Conditions
PENETRATING VESSEL/Chong Mai
- Counterflow Qi
- Abdominal and Chest Pain
- Dyspnea
- GYN Disorders
- Leg Atrophys
Indications
🔹Disorders of the SP, ST and Intestines
-Epigastric Pain, Abdominal Distention/Pain (+ PC 6)
Vomiting, borborygmus, diarrhea, dysenteric disorder,
Sudden turmoil disorder.
🔹Disorders of the HT and Spirit
-Heart Pain, Chest Pain (+ PC 6)
-Mania-Depression
🔹Disorders of Chong Mai (+ PC 6)
-Vomiting, Hiccup, running Piglet Qi, GYN Disorders
-Edema/Swelling of the face
🔹Local: Foot Inversion, foot drop, foot pain
🔸🔸🔸🔸SP4 (Luo Connecting point)
- Fortifies the SP and Resolves Damp
- Benefits the Sinews and Bones
- Calms the Spirit
🔹Metal, Child Point- Favored for EXCESS Conditions
Indications
🔹Dampness ( External/ Interior)
- Loss of Appetite, Abdominal Distention, Heaviness of Body
Swelling of the Face, Diarrhea
T: thick greasy coating
P: Slippery–EXCESS
🔹Damp Painful Obstruction involving ankle joint
- Tongue: Stiffness and Pain at the toot of tongue
- Mental Disorders
🔸🔸SP 5 ( Jing River)
- Tonifies the SP/ST, Resolves Dampness
- Harmonizes the LOWER Burner (SP, LV, KD)
- Regulates Urination
- Benefits the Genitals
- Regulates menses and induces labor
- Benefits the HT and Calms the spirit
- Harmonizes, invigorates and cools BLOOD
- Activates Channel and Alleviates Pain
🔹Meeting Point of SP, LV, KD
CONTRAINDICATED IN PREGNANCY
Indications
🔹SP Disorders of any kind
- Dysfunction of Transportation and Transformation :
Abdominal Distention and Fullness, Indigestion,
borborygmus, diarrhea, undigested food in stool
- Blood Def: Palpatations, Insomnia, blurred vision
Amenorrhea, post-partum dizziness
- Qi Sinking: Prolaspe of Uterus
- Qi not holding Blood: Flooding and trickling, menorrhagia
- Dampness: Heaviness of the body and limbs, edema,
Diarrhea, leukorrhea, leg Qi
🔹All Disorders of the Lower Burner
- GYN/OB Disorders: irregular menstruation, abdominal
masses, menorrhagia, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea,
Leukorrhea, infertility, delayed/prolonged labor, rentention
of Placenta, post-partum dizziness.
- Sexual/ Genital disorders: Seminal emission, impotence
Pain of genitals, Shan Disorder, contacted testicles
- Urinary Disorder: difficult/painful urination, enurest
🔹insomnia of any kind ( + HT 7)
🔹Skin diseases ( + SP 10, BL 17)
- Urticaria, Eczema, psoriasis
🔹Local: Pain/ Swelling/ Atrophy/Hemiplegia of the leg
🔸🔸🔸🔸SP 6
SP 1 - Focus on “Wrapping Blood” and stops bleeding
SP 3 - More TONIFYING, bias towards SP Deficiency
SP 4 - More MOVING, keep in mind it’s relationship with
Chong Mai, good abdominal pain, bias to Excess
SP 6 -TONIFIES and MOVES, keep in mind it is the Meeting
Point of SP, LV, KD, Deficiency and Excess, has widest
range of indications among SP Points
SP 1
SP 3
SP 4
SP 6
- Regulates MENSTRUATION and invigorates blood
- Harmonizes SP and Resolves Damp
- Moderate ACUTE CONDITIONS
🔹XI-CLEFT Point
Indications
GYN Disorders d/t Blood Stasis or Damp Obstruction
- Irregular Menstruation (+ SP 6, 10) Abdominal masses
Acute Conditions
- Dysmenorrhea: + LI 4 (electro) - "Flooding and Trickling"
Dampness
- Abdominal Distention, poor appetite difficult urination
edema, leukorrhea
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🔸🔸🔸SP 8
- Regulates SP and Resolves DAMP
- Opens and moves the Waterways
- Benefits the Lower Burner
Indications
DAMPNESS ( Damp-Heat)
- lower burner
Intestines: diarrhea, dysentery
Urinary System: Retention of urine, difficult urination
Painful urination- (KD 10)
Genitals: Pain of genitals leukorrhea - ( LV 8)
- Middle Burner: Jaundice, abdominal Distention, fullness
In the epigastrium, poor appetite - Upper Burner: Fullness of the lateral costal region, Dyspnea
with ability to lie down. - Edema:
- Local: knee pain esp with swelling, painful obstruction
🔸🔸🔸🔸SP 9 ( He-Sea, Water point)
- SP 9 - TRANSFORMS Dampness by regulating the Spleen’s
Function of transportation and transformation
- Focus more on middle and lower burner. - CV 3 - DRAINS Dampness by promoting the Bladder’s
function of Qi transformation and diuresis
- Focus more on Lower and Middle burners - CV 9 - Regulates the Water passages by working on the
Small Intestine’s function of ‘SEPARATING’ the
clear from the turbid
- Better for Edema of the Adominal Region
SP 9
CV 3
CV 9
♦️INVIGORATES BLOOD and Dispels Stasis
♦️COOLS BLOOD
- Harmonizes Menstruation
- Benefits the Skin
🔹” Sea of Blood”
- More of Cooling and Moving Nature
Indications
* GYN Disorders
- Irregular Menstruation, Dysmenorrhea, Amenorrhea,
Menorrhagia, post-partum blood deficiency
* Skin Disorders
- Uticaria, Eczema, Psoriasis, Herpes Zoster, ulceration and
Itching of genitals
♦️”CAN TREAT ALL BLOOD DISEASES”♦️
- Blood Stasis, Blood Heat, Blood Defiency * Local: knee, legumes
🔸🔸🔸🔸SP 10
🔹Moves Qi and Regulates the Intestines
Indications 🔹Intestinal Disorders - Constipation ( Qi Stagnation) - Diarrhea esp of Cold or Damp type - Lower Abdominal Pain
🔸🔸SP 15
- Regulates Qi and Blood, Firms the Sinews and Joints.
- Unbinds the Chest and Benefits the lateral costal region.
🔹GREAT LUO-CONNECTING POINT🔹
Indications
“ The Great LUO of the Spleen…
Where it is is EXCESS, There is PAIN of the whole Body,
When there is DEFIENCY, the hundred joints are Flaccid.
This channel embraces the blood if all the LUO-Connecting
channels”.
Spiritual Pivot
-Pain of the whole body, weariness of the four limbs:
GB 34, LI 11, BL 10
- Pain in the chest and lateral costal region
- Cough, Wheeezing
🔸🔸SP 21
