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Test #1- Who am I? Flashcards

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Actions:

  • Benefits the Tongue & Regulates Salivation
  • Descends Qi & Alleviates Cough (seldom use)

Indications:

  • Tongue disorders
  • Salivation issues

LOCAL POINTS FOR TONGUE & SALIVATION

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CV23 ***

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Actions:

  • Soothes the LV, Pacifies Wind & Relieves Spasm
  • Calms the Spirit

‘SINEW CONTRACTION’

Level w/ BL18(back-shu of LV)

Particular function on wind related to muscles & tendons

Indications:

  • LV-Wind
  • ‘Anger injuring the LV’
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GV8 **

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Actions:

  • Tonifies the HT & LU & Calms the Spirit
  • Clears Heat & Pacifies Wind
  • ‘SPIRIT PATHWAY’*

Level w/ BL15 (back-shu of HT)

Indications:

  • Deficiency of Gathering Qi
    • HT: fright palpitation, HT pain, insomnia, amnesia, muddled thinking, anxiety, stress
    • LU: short of breath, sadness, cough, dyspnea
  • Internal wind
  • Epilepsy, clonic spasm, childhood fright wind, lockjaw
  • Local pain of the upper back

* deficiency, sadness, anxiety, more to tonify

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GV11 ***

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Actions:

  • Benefits urination
  • Regulates the Lower Warmer
  • Warms & invigorates KD

Indications:

  • Genito-urinary
  • Lower abdominal pain
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CV2 **

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Actions:

  • Clears Heat & Detoxifies Poison
  • Circulates LU-Qi & Alleviates Cough/Wheezing

Level w/ BL16 (back-shu of GV) // BLOOD-HEAT & TOXICITY

Indications:

  • Empirical point for furuncles
  • Lung disorders
  • Local back pain/stiffness
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GV10 **

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Actions:

  • Warms Yang & Rescues collapse
  • Warms & Harmonizes the intestines

Indications:

  • Collapse of Yang
  • “Deficient cold abdomen” (SP-Yang def.)
  • Extreme weakness or deficiency
  • Adjunctive therapy - herbal plaster
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CV8 ***

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Actions:

  • Benefits the Bladder, regulates Qi transformation, drains dampness/Damp-Heat
  • Benefits the Uterus and regulates menstruation
  • Dispels stagnation and benefits the Lower Warmer
  • (Fortifies the Kidneys)

‘This point has a COOLING quality’ // ‘Favored for excess patterns’

Front-Mu pt of the BL

Indications:

  • Urinary system
  • Edema, diarrhea, jaundice
  • Reproductive system
  • Local stagnation or accumulation of cold/heat

* cooling quality, best for damp-heat conditions (UTIs)

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CV3 ****

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Actions:

  • Regulates & Benefits Gathering Qi
  • Descends Rebellious Qi of the LU & ST
  • Benefits the Breasts & Promotes Lactation

Front-Mu pt of the PC

Hui-Meeting pt of QI

Point of the SEA of QI

Indications:

  • Deficiency of Zong Qi
  • Rebellion of Qi
  • Breast disorders
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CV17 ****

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Actions:

  • Descends Rebellious Qi & Alleviates Cough/Wheezing
  • Benefits the Throat & Voice
  • Point of the Window of Heaven*

Indications:

  • Rebellious Lung-Qi (esp. w/ phlegm in throat)
  • Throat disordersWindow of Heaven points: sudden onset of disorders
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CV22 ***

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Actions:

  • Harmonizes the Middle Warmer and Descends Rebellion
  • Tonifies the ST & SP
  • Regulates Qi & Alleviates Pain

Front-Mu pt of the Stomach // Hui-Meeting pt of FU organs

Indications:

  • All diseases of ST, deficiency/excess, cold/heat, exterior/interior
  • Deficiency of SP
  • All Phlegm disease, all types of Phlegm-Fluid
  • Mental / neurological related problems

* acts on ANY ST issue, entire ST

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CV12 ****

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Actions:

  • Regulates the Heart & Alleviates Pain
  • Transforms Phlegm & Calms the Spirit
  • Descends Lung-Qi & Unbinds the Chest
  • Harmonizes Stomach & Descends Rebellion

Front-Mu of the Heart

Indications:

  • Diseases of Heart Zang-organ
  • Mental disorders (esp. Phlegm Misting the HT)
  • Rebellious Qi of the LU or ST

* Descending property

* acts on any HT issue or spirit-related issue… deals with ST issues, but more geared to combined ST and emotional issues

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CV14 ***

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Actions:

  • Expands the Chest & Diaphragm, Alleviates Cough (upper)

Level with ‘Diaphragm Shu’(BL17) (diaphragm)

  • Fortifies the Spleen & Drains Dampness (middle)
  • Treats Jaundice

‘REACHING YANG’

‘BOTTOM OF THE LUNG’: GV9/10

Indications:

  • Middle Warmer
    • Jaundice (yin/yang type, hepatitis, cholecystitis)
    • Cold in ST/SP: epigastric pain, inability to eat, emaciation, heaviness of four limbs, general malaise
  • Upper Warmer
    • Fullness of chest & lateral costal region, cough, dyspnea
  • Local pain/stiffness of spine
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GV9 **

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Actions:

  • Eliminates Wind(INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR WIND)/Named ‘PALACE OF WIND’
  • Nourishes the Sea of Marrow & Benefits the Head & Neck(POINT OF SEA OF MARROW, POINT OF WINDOW OF HEAVEN, MEETING OF GV & YANG-LINKING)

-Calms the Spirit (GHOST POINT)

Indications:

“All types of Wind disease”
- Exterior Wind: common cold(aversion to cold, cold

           shivering with sweating); ‘wind painful obstruction’

          - _Interior Wind_: h/a, head wind, dizziness, blurred vision,

           upward staring eyes, windstroke, numbness, twitching, 

            tremors, seizures
  • “the hundred diseases of the head” =
    Exterior/interior, occipital/temporal/frontal, exc./def.
  • Stiffness/pain of the neck
  • Mental disorders
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GV16 ***

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Actions:

  • Tonifies & nourishes the KD; fortifies original Qi & benefits the Essence; fortifies KD-Yang(Fire of Gate of Life) & restores collapse of Yang
  • Regulates the Lower Warmer: benefits the Bladder, Uterus, regulates Small Intestine Qi
  • Warms & fortifies the SP

“THE ONLY POINT THAT TONIFIES QI, BLOOD, YIN & YANG”

Front-Mu pt of the Small Intestine

Indications:

  • Strong tonification effect for any profound deficiency of Zang-Fu organs, Qi, blood, Yin or Yang
  • Kidney deficiency(Yin, Yang, Qi, Essence)
  • Urinary system
  • Reproductive system(assisting conception)

* tonifies qi, blood, yin, and yang (builds theKD)… and best for deficient and cold conditions

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CV4 ****

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Actions:

  • Harmonizes the ST & Regulates Qi
  • Dispels Food Stagnation

Indications:

  • Food stagnation

* “lower cavity”… acts on the lower ST, affects pyloric spincter

* scatters the qi

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CV10 **

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Actions:

  • Tonifies Qi (Orinial Qi), moves Qi & regulates Qi
  • Tonifies the Kidneys & fortifies Yang, rescues collapse of Yang
  • Harmonizes blood*BUILDS QI & MOVES QI

*Strong QI &YANG restoring // Yuan-Source of ‘HUANG’

Indications:

  • Qi disorders
    • Deficiency(Original Qi, Qi of five Zang organs), sinking, collapse:
    • Stagnation or rebellion:
    • Urinary
    • Reproductive
    • Digestive

* tonifies qi and yang (builds the KD), activates original qi, builds qi and moves qi… more of a moving quality

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CV6 ****

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Actions:

  • Regulates Yang
         Subdues Yang & Pacifies Wind

Raises Yang & Counters Prolapse

* MEETING of GV with BL, GB, TW & LV, also named ‘3 Yang 5 Meetings’

  • Benefits the Head, Brain, the Sea of Marrow, Sense Organs
  • Calms the Spirit

POINT OF SEA OF MARROW

Indications:

  • Interior Wind, uprising of excess Yang —bleeding
  • Sinking of deficient Yang —Moxa
  • Psycho-emotional disorders
  • Nasal congestion/discharge/bleeding
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GV20 ****

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Actions:

  • Harmonizes the ST & Regulates Qi
  • Descends Rebellion & Alleviates Vomiting
  • Regulates the HT

Indications:

  • ST issues
  • HT or mental disorders (secondary to CV14)

* “upper cavity”… acts on fundus of ST

* descends rebellion (of STqi)

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CV13 **

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Actions:

  • Benefits the Brain & Calms the Spirit‘COURTYARD OF SPIRIT’
  • Benefits the Head & Eliminates Wind
  • Benefits the Nose/Eyes

Indications:

  • Spirit issues
  • Wind syndromes
          - Interior Wind: upward staring eyes, dizziness (esp.                             accompanied by vomiting - GV+ ST, BL), epilepsy
      - Exterior Wind: headache with chills & fever and

           cold sensation of the head
  • Nasal/Eye disorders
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GV24 ***

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Actions:

  • Treats hemorrhoids
  • Benefits the 2 lower yin
  • Activates the channel & alleviates pain
  • Calms the spirit

* Luo-connecting point

Indications:

  • Local disorders of the anus
  • Genito-urinary disorder
  • Spine problems
  • Mental/neurological disorders
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GV1 ***

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Actions:

  • Clears Heat & Treats Malaria
  • Regulates the channel & Clears Wind

FEVER & MALARIA

Indications:

  • Febrile diseases
    • Chills & fever, malaria (considered a main point in malaria treatment ), steaming bone disorder
  • Internal Wind
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GV13 ***

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Actions:

  • Restores Consciousness & Calms the Spirit(GHOST Pt., 6 COMMAND Pt., named ‘MAN’S MIDDLE’)
  • Benefits the Face & Nose, Expels Wind(MEETING Pt. of GV with LI, ST)
  • Benefits the Spine & Treats acute midline lumbar sprain

Indications:

  • Sudden loss of consciousness
  • Spirit issues
  • Mania-depression, epilepsy, unexpected/ inappropriate laughter and crying
  • Face/Nose disorders
  • Acute midline lumbar sprain
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GV26 ***

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Actions:

  • Tonifies Kidney Yang & Builds Fire of Gate of Life
  • Regulates GV
  • Benefits lumbar spine
  • (Clears heat)

‘GATE OF LIFE’ // Level w/ BL23 (back-shu of KD)

STRONGEST POINT FOR TONIFYING KD-YANG

Indications:

  • Kidney-Yang deficiency
  1. Cold (esp. feet), lumbar pain
  2. Genito-urinary:
  3. Digestive: 5AM diarrhea
  4. Respiratory: asthma, allergies
  5. Immune: HIV, cancer
  6. GV: opisthotonos, splitting h/a, epilepsy

* more building, tonifies KD yang, supports Fire of Gate of Life

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GV4 ****

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Actions:

  • Clears Heat & Treats Malaria

MEETING OF GV & 6 YANG CHANNELS

  • Expels (Exterior) Wind & Firms the Exterior
  • Pacifies (Interior) Wind
  • Tonifies (Qi & Yang) Deficiency

POINT OF SEA OF QI: +ST9, CV17, GV15

Also named ‘HUNDERD TAXATIONS’

Indications:

  • Acute febrile diseases(unique ability to clear pathogens from all the three stages) common cold, flu
  • Malaria: main pt. to treat the root and manifestation
  • Summer-heat stroke
  • Wind-Heat skin conditions: itchy rashes, hives
  • Sweating disorders:
  • Deficiency & Exhaustion
  • Local pain & stiffness
  • Interior wind
  • Nosebleed that does not stop
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GV14 ****

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Actions:

  • Regulates the anterior & posterior Yin Orifices
  • Drains Damp-Heat
  • Calms the spirit (Ghost pt.)
  • Revives from drowning

Indications:

  • Urogenital/anal regions
  • Other
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CV1 **

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Actions:

  • Dispels cold-damp
  • Benefits the lumbar region and legs
  • Regulates the Lower Warmer

‘LUMBAR YANG GATE’ // MAIN POINT FOR LOW BACK AND LEG PAIN

Indications:

  • Cold-Damp in Lower Warmer
    ​

* more dispersive, more of a local point for backache

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GV3 ***

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Actions:

  • Clears Heat from LU&HT
  • Calms the Spirit - Pacifies Wind Level w/ BL13 (back-shu of LU)

GOOD AT CLEARING HEAT FROM CHEST

Indications:

  • Heat in the chest LU: cough, dyspnea, fever (pneumonia, bronchitis) HT: spiritual disturbance of excess patterns
  • Internal wind – Childhood fright epilepsy, clonic spasm, opisthotonos * excess, more to clear heat
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GV12 ***

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Actions:

  • Benefits the Tongue & Treats Muteness

*‘MUTENESS DOOR’ //VOICE ISSUES d/t ‘STIFF TONGUE’

  • Eliminates Wind
  • Benefits the Neck & Spine

POINT OF SEA OF QI

Indications:

  • Inability to speak, loss of voice
    Stiffness or flaccidity of tongue, ‘lotus flower tongue’
  • Interior/exterior wind
    Loss of consciousness from windstroke, head wind,
             heaviness of head, epilepsy, clonic spasm
  • Stiffness/pain of the neck or spine
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GV15 ***

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Actions:

  • Benefits the Nose & Eyes (MAIN POINT FOR NOSE ISSUES)
  • Eliminates Wind, Benefits the Head/Face, Dispels Swelling
  • Calms the Spirit(GHOST POINT)

Indications:

  • Nasal disorders
  • Eye disorders (‘Mingtang’-Hall of Brightness)
  • Spirit issues
  • Swelling in the upper region
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GV23 ***

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Actions:

  • Regulates the Heart & Calms the Spirit
  • Descends Lung-Qi & Unbinds the Chest
  • Luo-Connecting point of CV // Yuan-Source point of ‘GAO’*

Indications:

  • Mental or neurological disorders
  • Heart problems
  • Rebellion of LU-Qi
  • Skin conditions(related to Luo pathway)
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CV15 **

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Actions:

  • Regulates the water passages & treats edema
  • Harmonizes the intestines and dispels accumulation

‘WATER SEPARATION’ // PROMOTES CIRCULATION OF FLUIDS IN THE ABDOMEN

Indications:

  • Water diseases, edema, ascites
  • Severe stagnation & rebellion of Qi d/t dysfunction of intestines
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CV9 **

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Actions:

  • Extinguishes wind & benefits the face
  • Regulates the CV

Meeting point of CV, GV, LI & ST

Indications:

  • Facial disorders
  • Excessive salivation with drooling
  • Others:
    • Stiffness & pain of the nape of neck
    • CV: Shan disorder(M), abdominal masses(F)
    • Ghost point: epilepsy, mania-depression
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CV24 **

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