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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 jing well points | restores consciousness, clears heat and stagnation, especially from the opposite end of the channel, calms the spirit (shen), threats fullness below the heart disease affect the yin organs, |
| jing spring points | , clears heat from the channel/organ (fire and water point), effect on the opposite end of the channel (less than jing well), can substitute from jing well,can combine with shu stream to treat zang change inthe complexion color |
| shu stream points | , heaviness and pain of the joints, combine with ying spring to treat the yin organs, yang shu stream channel stragnation, diseases which come and go chronic, disease manifests intermittentlly |
| jing river points | , cough, fever, chills, change in voice, disorders of muscles, tendons, bones and joints, sstagnation in the channels |
| he sea points | , communicates with organs, rebelious qi, diarrhea, abnormal leakage of fluids, skin diseases, treates the fu organs, disease affects the stomack from dietary causes |
| ying spring 7 shu stream | disease at the yin within yin (zang) |
| jing river (yin channels) | disease is at the yin within yang (sinews and bones) |
| he sea (yang channels) | disease is at the yang within yang (skin) |
| yuan source points | original qi surfaces and lingers, dispel varios kinds of excess pathogenic factors and to treat disorders along the pathway of their respective channels |
| luo connecting points | treating disorders of both their interiorly exteriorly related channel or zang-fu and their corresponding zanfu and channel, treating disorders in regions reached by the luo connecting channel, treating psycho emotional disorders |
| method of combining the yuan source and luo connecting points | yuan source point of the first or primarily affected channel is combined with the luo connecting point of its interiorly exteriorly coupled channel (lung and large int for example) |
| xi cleft points | where the qi and blood gather and plunge more deeply, acute conditions and pain, of yin channel also treat disorders of blood |
| back shu points | transport,roughly at the same anatomical level as their related zang or fu. situated in the yang region they treat yin diseases, (deficiency and cold - yin) and diseases of the zang rather than the fu, they do not treat channel disorders |
| front mu points | gather (qi gathers on the anterior surface of the body) diseases of zang and fu, excess, deficiency, hot and cold patterns, can be used diagnostically, treat disordes of their respective zangfu but not theri respective channel |
| hui meeting points | affect certain type of tissue or substance throughout the body |
| lower he sea points | used to treat their respective fu organs, |
| four gates | conmon combination usually indicaated for stagnation of qi and blood, with associated symptoms of pain and emotiona stress LI4 and LIV 3 |
| points of the four seas | sea of qi, sea of blood, sea of water and grain, sea of marrow |
| the sea of qi | when this is in excess there is fullness in the chest, urgent breathing and a red complexion. when this is insufficient, there is scanty energy insufficient for speech |
| sea of blood | when in excess, there is a sensation as if the body were big, one feels disquiet, but does not know what disease there is, when it is insufficient, one has the sensation of one's body being small, one feels reduced but does not know what could be the illness. |
| sea of water and grain | when in excess, abdominal fullness and when insufficient there is hunger and inability to eat |
| sea of marrow | in excess there is lightness of the body and much strenght and a person's self exceeds the normal level, when insuficient there is a whirling sensation of the brain, dizziness, tinitus, pain of the lower legs, impairment of vision, indolence and desire to sleep |
| window of heaven points | , disharmony between the qi of the body and the head, with qi or blood rebelling upwards, scrofula and goiter, sudden onset, pshcho emotional disorders, disorders of the sense organs |
| 13 ghost points of sun si miao | mania disorder and epilepsia |
| exit/entry points | entry where the circulation of qi enters the channel. exit where the circulation of qi exit the channel- cloggged exit will feel full pulse- tense puffed out feeling. empty entry wil feel concave, empty |
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