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Small Intestine Lower He-Sea point • Sea of Blood point

LOWER HE-SEA POINT OF SI: Digestive disorders • Heart heat transferred to SI (separation of clear and turbid). This is the Zang organ getting rid of its excess from HT fire to the Fu organ to deal with. This is a unique problem because of HT fire (mouth and tongue ulcers, high fever, palpitation, yellow urine). When urine becomes painful, this is call HT heat going to the SI. This point reminds the SI what its job is • Chong channel problems.

LOCAL PROBLEMS: Leg pain, limited movement

diarrhea-damp heat, diarrhea-LV Qi yu

ST-40

Luo Connecting Point

LUO: Excess - psycho emotional disorders with phlegm misting the mind or blocking orifices; Deficiency - leg paralysis or atrophy; Rebllious Qi - throat pain, sudden aphasia • LUO connects with SP channel and the side of the neck.

Resolve phlegm, stomach channel local problems, sore and swelling throat, sudden loss of voice, Plumpit Qi, psycho emotional disorders: manic-depression, mad laughter, ascend to high places and sing

LOCAL PROBLEMS: Leg pain, limited movement

Best for phlegm • Best combo: Yuan/Luo - SP-03/ ST-40 - for phlegm

Very safe point. Good sensation. Moxa is good here. Relatively big point. RESOLVE PHLEGM: Dampness happens in a continuum. Moist is normal. Tissues need to be moist, then there's dampness, and there's phlegm. In TCM, tissues need healthy moist. Problem is they need Qi to move fluid around. We move moisture around with warmth. Water can accumulate in the back if you don’t have enough warmth so water accumulates. When moisture accumulates, we call it dampness. When dampness becomes more solid, it becomes phlegm. • Phlegm - 2 flavors: 1) Visible - vomit, sticky saliva, mucus, ovary cyst, nodules, goiters, swollen lymph nodes, plum pit qi, lypoma (all kinds of cysts. all kinds of nodules) Phlegm doesn't hurt. Seaweed can be used to soften nodules (salty things). Goiters are inflammation of the thyroid and seaweed are rich in iodine. 2) Invisible - Pyscho emotional disorders, depression, mania, insomnia. Idea is that people with emotional disorders are not fully in touch with the environment with the orifices/sensory organs. They keep you in touch with the environment. If you are not responding to the environment the normal way, you are not seeing reality as it is, so something must be plucking up. So we call that kind of plug phlegm. Phlegm heat harassing the heart, Phlegm misting the heart orifices • ST40 is to phlegm as LI-11 is to heat (no matter where it's coming from)

ST-41

Stomach Jing-River point

JING-RIVER POINT (fire): 1)Clear heat a) ST organ - excessive hunger, bad breath, constipation, burning stomach ache - worse with spicy food. b) ST channel: gum: bleeding, swollen • Nose: red, bleeding • Face: burning pain or acne • Heart: psycho-emotional, dream disturbed sleep, mania. 2) Cough and dyspnea, chills and fever: No sweating, malaria. 3) Diseases manifesting in voice: stomach heat with raving. 4) Diseases of bones and sinews: sinew painful obstruction, damp pain obstruction, leg atrophy. LOCAL problems

MOTHER POINT: Primarily to reduce excess pathogenic factors from the ST channel and Zang organ. Does not tonify except maybe to benefit the flow of qi and blood in the channel

knee-pain above, knee-pain inside, knee-pain lateral side, knee-pain medial side, knee-pain posterior side

ST-42

Exit point • Stomach Yuan Source point

YUAN SOURCE POINT: Does NOT do anything for the organs. • ST channel problems: Face - burning pain or acne because acne presents in the Yang Ming channel • Heart - psycho-emotional signs like dream-disturbed sleep, mania. Relatively minor point.

LOCAL: Dorsum of foot problems. If someone has lots of foot pain or recent foot surgery, this would be a good point to mitigate the pain and stress on the foot

ST42/KD2 for Plantar Fasciitis

ST-43

Shu-stream point

SHU STREAM POINT: 1)Disorders of the Zang or Fu organs (stomach and intestines) 2) Heaviness of the body and pain of the joints - for general aching due to wind and damp-heat painful obstruction 3) Diseases manifesting intermittently (malaria)

ST CHANNEL heat: nosebleeds, face burning pain or acne

CLEAR HEAT - fever with no sweating, cold shivering with malarial disorders

LOCAL: dorsum of the foot problems.

bi zheng-heat

ST-44

Ying-Spring point • Water Point

YING-SPRING POINT: 1) Stomach Organ Heat - excessive hunger, bad breath, constipation, burning stomach ache that’s worse after spicy food 2) ST channel heat disorders affecting the upper portion of the channel in the face and head • Nose: nosebleed • Face: burning face pain or acne • Gum: bleeding gum, toothache, tongue ulcers, lip ulcers • mastitis • psycho-emotional disorders of dream disturbed sleep and mania • mastitis 3) Intestines: clears heat and damp-heat from the intestines

LOCAL TOE PROBLEMS

Clearing heat in Stomach • Toe problems

constipation-heat-febrile diseases, constipation-heat-LV, constipation-heat-ST&LI, diabetes-middle ST fire & Yin xu, diarrhea-food stagnation, facial pain-blood/qi yu&phlegm, facial pain-eye region, facial pain-general, facial pain-LV fire / ST fire, facial pain-mandibular, facial pain-wind cold/heat, facial pain-yin xu w/yang rising, stomachache-food stagnation, stomachache-ST yin xu

ST-45

Stomach Jing Well point • Stomach Metal point

JING-WELL POINT: Treat the uppermost reaches of the channels: face swelling, upper teeth, toothache, lockjaw, throat painful obstruction, deviation of the mouth (Bell’s Palsy), nosebleed, and yellow nasal discharge, Bi syndrome • Heat at the opposite end of the channel • Treat fullness of the heart: chest and abdomen fullness and distention • Treat disorders of the spirit: insomnia, nightmares, and somnolence

CHILD POINT: reduce excess pathogenic factors from the ST channel and Zang organ

LOCAL TOE PROBLEMS

#2 for clearing heat

insomnia-phlegm heat on HT, stomachache-food stagnation

Tai Yang

Headaches or eye disorders

facial pain-eye region, headache-LV fire, Headache-LV Yang Rising, hypertension-LV fire, hypertension-LV yang rising

Tun Zhong

Local point for sciatic and lower back pain

Opens the BL channel and Luo vessels

Not an official extra point

back pain(lower)-acute, back pain(lower)-chronic, sciatica