• Ren, Du Chong Crossing point
• Benfit essence
• Red Light district

RN 1

Meeting of Yin

• Front Mu UB
• Lin Syndrome: (+) B28, Sp 9
• Clear damp-heat
• local stagnation: amenorrhea d/t blood stasis
• Comparison: RN 3 (sedate excess) vs RN 4 (Tonify xu)
• Crossing pt SP, K, Lv

RN 3

Central Pole

• tonify yin, yang (moxa), blood
• DU 4 - tonify yang only
• Ren 3 - sedate excess
• Crossing pt SP, K, Lv

RN 4

Origin Pass

• Tonify qi and yang
• Raise Yang qi : Bu zhong yi qi tang
• Regulate Qi: GI tract
• Rn 6: Move Qi (MJ, LJ), tonify qi (whole body)
• Ren 17: move qi (UJ)
• Tonify yuan qi
• xform damp and regulate pulse

RN6
Sea of Qi

Chong channel

RN7

Yin Intersection

• Moxa only
  • Salt - rescue yang
  • garlic - skin issues
  • fu zi - K yang xu
• strengthen spleen
• Don't needle - RN8, S17, LV12

RN8
Spirit gate

• Promote transformation of fluids
• Controls the water passages
• Indication: damp, edema, tan-yin, ascites
• Water metabolism points: RN9, S28, B39, RN5, B22, LI6, K7, DU26, LU7, SP9, LI4, SJ4

RN9
Water divide

• Anatomy of ST
  • Fundus: RN13 (Descend Qi) (St Qi Rebellion)
  • Body: RN12 (regulate Qi) tonify, sedate, harmonize
  • Pylorus: RN10 (Descend Qi) Food Stagnation
• RN 12 crossing point of ST & SI & SJ
• RN 13 crossing point of ST & SI
• RN 17 crossing w SJ, SP, K, SI

RN 10, 12, 13

• Front Mu of ST
• Influential point of Fu
• Combinations
  • RN12, S36 - abdominal problem
  • RN12, S36, PC6 - Epigastric problem

RN12

Central Venter

• Front Mu of Heart
• Palpitations & mental symptoms
• Stomach issues

RN14

Great Tower Gate

• Luo connecting point of Ren - itching abdominal skin
• calm the mind
• Neddling - .4 - .6 OD

RN15

Turtledove Tail

• PC front mu
• influential point of qi
• Regulate Zong Qi: circulation respiration
• Local point: chest breast

RN17

Chest Center

• Benefit throat
• soothe asthma
• stop cough
• Needling - 0.2 perp then .5 - 1.0 down

RN22

Celestial Chimney

• local point for tongue: aphasia, slurred speach
• Aphasia - RN23, HT5

RN23

Ridge Spring

• Local point for facial problem - paralysis

RN24

Sauce Receptacle

• Regulate DU Channel
• Supporting point for rectal prolpase
  • S36, RN6, DU20, DU1

DU1

Long Strong

• Basic point for lower back pain
  • B40, DU3, B23
• Yao yang is 3.5 cun lateral

DU3

Lumbar Yang Pass

• Tonify K Yang
• Warm the Mingmen
• Tonify Yang only
• A line around the body
  • DU4, B23, B52, Jing Gong, GB26, SP15, St25, K16, RN8

DU4

Life gate

• Jaundice: yin chen hao
• Resolve damp-heat in GB/LV

DU9

Extremity of Yang

• Empirical point for boils

DU10

Spirit Tower

• shen issues

• Eliminate internal wind: spasm, convulsion, tremor epilepsy
• Tonify LU: DU12, B13, B43
• Located below T3

DU12

Body pillar

• Malaria

• 6 yang crossing
• Clear heat (ext. & shaoyang)
• Release exterior wind-heat
• warm four limbs (moxa)

DU14

Great Hammer

• stimulates speech
• aphasia: DU15, Ht 5
• Needling 0.5 - 0.8 perpendicular or downward
• Crosses yang wei

DU15

Mute's gate

• Ext & Int wind
  • Int & ext - GB20, LI4
  • Ext. only - B12
  • Int. only - GB31
  • fang feng, chan tui, gou teng, bai ji li
• Too deep needling into Medulla oblongata

DU16

Wind Mansion

• clear mind
• lift spirit
• Ascend SP Yang: xu above, excess below
• Promote resuscitation
• Eliminate interior wind

DU 20

Hundred Convergence

• Open the nose : LU7, LI4, DU23, LI20
• Bai zhi, xin yi hua, cang er zi, xi xin
• Contraindicated in babies and anyone whose fontanel has not closed (Du 21 - Du23) (metopism)

DU23

Upper Star

• Location: tip of the nose
• Loss of consciousness d/t ETOH

• Promote resuscitation
• Traumatic lower back pain
• facial edema: yang edema
• Crossing point for ST & LI (Yangming)

DU26

Water Trough Mansion

• Front mu vs Back Shu
  • Front-Mu: Collecting evil qi (sedate)
  • Back shu: Transmit good qi (tonify)
  • LU1 - Excess (Zhi bei mu)
  • B13 - xu ((chuan bei mu)

• LU5 vs S40
  • LU5 - phlegm in the lung
  • S40 - Phlegm anywhere (even invisible)
• LU5 vs LU10\
  • LU5 - phlegm heat - Ding chuan tang
  • LU10 - HEAT - MA XING SHI GAN TANG

LU5

Cubit Marsh

• Stop hemoptysis (coughing blood) - LU6, B17
• Tx Hemorrhoid - Moxa LU6

LU6

Collection Hole

• Luo connecting and confluent point
  • LU7 - Ren
  • PC6 - Yin Wei
  • SP4 - Chong
  • SJ5 - Yang Wei
• Command point for head and neck
• Exit point

LU7

Broken Sequence

• Disperse Wind-cold - + LI4, B12
• Ren Confluent pt - K6
• Open water passeges for yang edema
• Command point for head and neck - Ge Gen Tang

LU7 (cont)

Broke Sequence

• Yuan Source - Tonify LU
• Vessel influential  - Benefit HT
• Sheng Mai San - Target LU/HT
• LU7 vs LU9
  • LU7 - int, ext / excess, deficiency / water
  • LU9 - interior / deficiency            / phlem

LU9

Great Abyss

• Ying Spring : clear Lu heat and sore throat
• Clear LU heat herbs: Huang qin, sang bai pi, di gu pi

LU10

Fish Border

• Bleeding to Tx sore throat (Yin qiao san)
• One of the ghost pts
  • mental problem, manic disorder

LU11

Lesser Metal

• LI4 -
  
  • Move qi
  • located at yin yang transition
  • Most yang
• LV3 -
  
  • Move blood
  • located and yang to yin transition
  • Most Yin

LI4 + LV3

Four gates

• Disperse exterior wind
  • WC & WH - LI4, B12, DU16, GB20
  • W-C: LU7
  • W-H: LU10, LU11, SJ6
• Tx internal wind
• stop pain
• command point of face
• Promote delivery during labor

LI4

Union Valley

• Open LU water passage
• LU7, LI7, B39 - Yang edema, wind water
• Yang Edema - ????
• Yin Edema - pitted, below belt, from SP & K Yang xu

LI6

Slanting Passage

• LI10 + ST 36 = arm 3 mile + foot 3 mile
• powerful qi and blood tonic
  
  • only ton. pt on LI
• Both are yangming (Big qi and blood)
• Both are locted elboe/knee : tonify/balance

• Clear heat
  • organ heat: lv, ht, st, lu
  • Other: W-H, blood-heat, T-H, D-H
• Possible tongue and pulse
  • red w/yellow coat, rapid
• The Fire engine point

LI 11

Crooked Pond

• Benefits sinews
• Promote circulation of channels
• stop pain
• expel wind

LI 15

Shoulder Transporting Point

• LI 20, LU 7, LI4 = open nasal orifice
  • xin yi hua, bai zhi, cang er zhi, xi xin

LI 20

Welcome Fragrance

• St 4 - St 6 : thread 1.0 - 1.5 cun
• facial paralysis, Bell's Palsy : + LI4

ST 4

Earth Granary

• Major local point
• Dizziness d/t damp phlegm
  • ban xia bai zhu tian ma tang
• Yangming Headache

ST 8

Head Spport

• Thoracic outlet
• Crossing of all Yang except UB, + yang wei

• Local pt for breast problems
  • mastitis, pre-menstrual swelling, lump
• Nursing Mother : regulate lactation
  
  • ST18, RN17, SI1

ST 18

Breast Root

• level w/ RN 12
• ST prolapse local point

ST 21

Beam Door

• acute/chronic constipation + SJ6, K6, ST25, B25
• acute diarrhea + ST36
• Basic point for diarrhea : ST36
• Weight loss
  • 4 doors - RN12, 6, ST 25
  • 8 doors - RN 10, 13, 4, SP15 (I know it doesn't add up)

ST 25

Heavenly Pillar

• ST27 - Qi
• ST28 - Water
• ST29 - Blood
• ST30 - Chong

• Open the water passage
• Water metabolism Points
  • ST28, RN9, SJ4, B22, B39
• Men's issues

ST 28

Water Passage

• excess case o gynecological disease (blood stasis)
• Remove blood stasis and regulate menses
• Amenorrhea d/t blood stasis
• ST 29 = Dang gui
• SP6 - basic point for amenorrhea

ST 29

Returns

• xi-cleft point - stop pain
• Da jian zhong tang

ST 34

Beam Mound

• Majr pt to tonify qi and blod
• Regulate abdomen
• Any etiology : excess/deficiency, heat/cold
• He sea and Horary pt

ST 36

Foot 3 mile

• ST36 + RN12 - abdomen
• ST36 + RN12  + PC6 - Epigastrium
• ST36 + SP 3 - Tonify middle jiao
• ST36 + LI10 - Boost up immune System
• ST36 + GB39(moxa) - prevent stroke (internal wind)
• ST36 + B12(moxa) - prevent cold (internal wind)

• ST37 - Regulate LI (damp-heat, heat)
• ST39 - Regulate SI (SI qi pain, SI qi tied)
• B39 - Regualte SJ (water metabolism)

• Empirical distal point for Shoulder pain

ST 38

Narrow Opening

• Luo pt
• Any phlegm - visible and invisible
  • Mental issues
• Herbs - Ban xia/yuan zhi
• Formulas - er chen tang, wen dan tang

ST 40

Abundant Bulge

• ST Heat (+LI11) - Bleeding gums etc
• Distal point (+LI4) - facial paralysis, trigeminal neuralgia, yangming headache
• Inner Nei ting (just below) for food stagnation

ST 44

Inner courtyard

• Moxa SP 1 - Uterine Bleeding (also LV 1)
  
  • Gui pi tang/Gu Jing Wan/ Wen Jing Tang / Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan
• Insomnia, mental stuff
  

SP 1

Hidden White

• Horary pt - Earth on Earht
• ST 36 + SP 3 = Tonify Sp
  • si jun zi tang, bu zhong yi qi tang, li zhong wan etc

SP 3

Greater White

• Luo, chong confluent
• Remove stagnations of blood, col fod, damp and phlegm

SP 4

Ancestor and Descendant

• local point for foot edema w/ GB41

SP 5

Metal Mound

• Nourish Kd Yin
• Soothe Lv Qi Stag, Lv blood
• Remove SP damp
• Nourish yin, calm shen
• genital area problem - man and women
• amenorrhea
• Insomnia - SP6, ht7, an mian

SP 6

3 yin intersection

• xi-cleft
• Stop pain
  • dysmenrrhea
  • stomach pain

SP 8

Earth Pivot

• Sp 9 for damp
• damp-heat / cold damp
• edema, lin syndrome

SP 9

Yin mound spring

• Cool blood, move blood (+ B17) = chi shao, mu dan pi
• skin problem - + LI11, B40
• Keep the blood in the vessel - Gui pi tang
• Muscle - Vastus medialis

SP 10

Sea of Blood

• same level as ST 25
• support ST 25 for abdominal complaint
• Lv overacting SP type of abdominal pain

SP 15

Great Horizontal

• 1.3 cun below SP 15

• Lateral to ST 18

• Lateral to St 17

• Luo pt of MAJOR collateral channel
  • control all minute blod connecting channels
• Generalized pains : blood stasis, moving muscular pain
• Fibromyalgia

SP 21

Great Embracement

• Ht 5 - qi - tongue - aphasia
• Ht 6 - yin - (night sweating)
• Ht 7 - Blood - (calm shen) - Insomnia
• Ht 8 - Fire - (heat)
• Ht 9 - Orifice

• Luo
• Tonify H Qi
• Aphasia (b/c ht uo goes to tongue)
• Ht heat transmit to SI
  • Mu tong, deng xin cao, dan zhu ye = H8, H5, Rn3

HT 5

Connecting Village

• xi-cleft
• Nourish Ht yin
• Stop night sweating
• Ht 4, 5, 6, 7 are radial side of tendon m. flexor carpi ulnaris

HT 6

Yin Cleft

• Source
• Nourish Ht blood - shen disturbance, palpitation
• Calm shen basic point  - + SP6, An mian (Insomnia)

HT 7

Spiritual Gate

• Clear Ht heat - + LI11
  • tongue - red tip
  • herb - huang lian

H8

Lesser Mansion

• Open heart orifices
• phlegm misting Ht
• Phlegm fire harassing the mind

HT 9

Lesser Surge

• Eyes
• Pu gong yin
• Empirical point - Promote lactation
  • SI 1, RN 17, ST 18, SI 11, PC6

SI 1

Lesser Marsh

• Malaria, Night sweats
• Du confluent = Opening = Master - Neck and spine (+ B62)
• Vertex H/A
  • B67, Lv3, Du 20
  • Gao ben, whu zhu yu

SI 3

Back Ravine

• Brighten the Eyes
• Good for the Elderly
• Styloid process of ulna

SI6

Nursing the Aged

• Luo
• difficulty in Rotating neck (torticullis) (w/ Luo zhen)

SI 7

Branch to the correct

• Breast issues
• shoulder and arm pain

SI 11

• Crossing SJ, GB, SI, LI
  • two intestine and Shao yang

• one to inner canthus, one to outer canthus

• GB, SJ, SI crossing point
• Benefit the ears - tinnitus, deafness

SI 19

Auditory Palace