Acupuncture and Moxibustion by Ji Zhang & Baixiao Zhao & Lixing Lao

Author:Ji Zhang & Baixiao Zhao & Lixing Lao
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: PMPH-USA
Published: 2017-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Fig. 3-86　LV 1, LV 2, LV 3 and LV 4

Location method. The point is at the junction of a straight line along the lateral corner of the nail and a horizontal line along the bottom of the nail.

Actions. Restore yang to save from collapse, regulate menstruation, and relieve strangury.

Indications. Irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, fooding and spotting, prolapse of the uterus, other gynecologic disorders; enuresis, retention of urine, other urinary conditions; hernia, lower abdominal pain; epilepsy, somnolence.

Manipulation. Acupuncture: 1. Needle obliquely 0.1~0.2 cun; local soreness and pain can be felt. 2. Bleed with a three-edged needle. Moxibustion: Use 3~5 cones of cone moxibustion, or use a moxa stick for 5~10 minutes.

Precautions. Scarring moxibustion is prohibited.

Annotation. The point appeared in The Spiritual Pivot-Fundamental Points (Líng Shū-Běn Shū,灵枢·本输). Dūn means thick; the point is at the end, the thickest part, of the great toe, where the foot jueyin channel begins and the channel qi is at its strongest; hence the name dà dūn, big mound.

Modern clinical application and research. In a case series on dysfunctional uterine bleeding, 60 patients were treated with fve cones of direct moxibustion on LV 1 (dà dūn) once a day or every other day; fve treatments constituted a course. After two courses, bleeding significantly subsided. Of the 40 patients who returned for a six-month follow up, 28 (70%) had had no recurrence; 6 (15.0%) had benefited; 6 had not benefited (15.0%).1

LV 2 (Xíng Jiān, 行间)

Ying-spring point

Location. On the dorsum of the foot between the first and second toes, proximal to the web and at the border of the red and white fesh (Fig. 3-86).

Actions. Calm the liver and subdue yang, drain heat and calm the mind, cool blood and stanch bleeding.

Indications. Headache; dizziness; redness; eye swelling and pain; optic atrophy; deviation of the mouth; other disorders of head, face, and fve sensory organs due to wind heat in the liver channel; stroke, epilepsy, convulsion, other conditions due to wind; coughing of blood, spitting of blood, nosebleed, other blood disorders; pain of the vulva, strangury, seminal emission, impotence, pruritus vulvae, other conditions of the external genitalia; dysmenorrhea, flooding and spotting, profuse menstruation, amenorrhea, abnormal vaginal discharge, other gynecological disorders; distending pain in chest and hypochondrium, cough, asthma.

Manipulation. Acupuncture: Needle perpendicularly or obliquely 0.5~0.8 cun. The needling sensation can be felt locally and can pass to the dorsum of the foot. Moxibustion: Use 3~5 cones of cone moxibustion, or use a moxa stick for 5~10 minutes.

Precautions. See LV 1 (dà dūn).

Annotation. The point appeared in The Spiritual Pivot-Fundamental Points (Líng Shū-Běn Shū,灵枢·本输). Xíng means travel. The point is on the margin of the web between the first and second toes where channel qi enters. Thus the point is called xíng jiān, travels between.

LV 3 (Tài Chōng, 太冲)

Shu-stream point; yuan-source point of the liver

Location. On the dorsum of the foot between the first and second metatarsal bones in the depression distal to the junction of the bases of the two bones and over the dorsalis pedis artery (Fig. 3-86).

Location method. The point

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