PRESCRIPTIONS FOR REGULATING FLUID
FLUID
-Thin fluid
-Circulated in organs
-Marrow
-Brain
-Moisten joints
-Nourish organs and marrows
-Thick fluid
-Water metabolism
-From water, liquid diet
-Stomach (depends on the spleen)
-Sweat
-Urine
STOMACH, spleen transformed, sent to lung, descends to kidney (which dominates the water)
-Clear
-Turbid
-Sweat
-Turbid qi (exhalation)
-Urine
Liver
-Qi circulation
PATHOGENIC FACTORS
-Damp
-Phlegm
-Water
-Edema
RESOLVE: let the phlegm disappear by metabolism
RELIEVE: help to move the phlegm from one place to another in the body
PRESCRIPTION FOR RESOLVING PHLEGM
RN 12 (Zhong Wan)
-Front mu of stomach
-Influential point
-Fu meeting point
-Regulate 6 fu organs
ST 40 (Feng Long)
-Luo connecting point
-Regulate stomach and spleen to resolve phlegm
-Empirical point to treat phlegm
FUNCTION:
-Transforming phlegm and dampness
-Clearing phlegm from the lung and alleviating cough and wheezing
-Related to lung qi
-Clearing phlegm from the heart and calming the spirit
-Harmonizing middle jiao and descending rebellion
MANIPULATIONS
-Reducing method at ST 40
-Reducing or even method at RN12
-Puncture perpandicularly
-Scrape lower to upper to reduce
INDICATIONS:
-cough with copious phlegm, wheezing, dyspnea, asthma, fullness, oppression and pain of the chest, edema
-Resolve phlegm in the lung
-Abdominal pain, vomiting, difficulty in passing urine and stools
-Phlegm obstructing kidney qi transmitting function
-Mania-depression, dementia, epilepsy, hypertension
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
RN 12: Regulates middle jiao and qi
ST 40: Resolves phlegm and descending turbid
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS:
-Goiter
-Resolving phlegm and promoting circulation
-Combine with RN 22, ST 9
-Depression
-Accompanied with dementia due to stagnation of qi and blood
-Combine with DU 20, PC 6 (pc 6 connects with ying wei meridian, which connects to the heart)
-Dizziness
-Combine with LR 3 to move qi stagnation
PRESCRIPTION FOR RELIEVING PHLEGM AND OPENING ORIFICES
DU 24 (Shenting) "Spirit Place"
DU 26 (Renzhong) (in ancient time called "Gui Shi" or "Ghost Place")
ST 40 (Fenglong) "Here is where muscle is strong."
FUNCTIONS:
-Restoring consciousness and calming spirit
-resolving phlegm and opening orifices
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reducing method at ST 40 and DU 26
-Reducing or even method at DU 24
INDICATIONS:
-Sudden loss of consciousnes, coma, loss of consciousnes from windstroke, deviation of the face and mouth
-Mania-depression, epilepsy, inappropriate laughter, unexpected laughter and crying, insomnia
-Epilepsy: use with RN 15
-Lou connecting point of Ren
-Yuan source point, Gao-Huang (Bing Ru- if disease infects Gau Huang -below the heart- it is very difficult to treat)
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
DU 24: Dissolves the phlegm and calms the spirit
DU 26: Opens the orifices and activates the collaterals
ST 40: Removes and dissovles the phlegm, calms the mind and spirit
CLINICAL APPLICATION:
Mania-Depression
-Phlegm obstruction in brain
-Disease changes as phlegm moves
-Difficult diseases with unknown etiology are often phlegm diseases
PRESCRIPTION FOR INDUCING DIURESIS TO ALLEVIATE EDEMA
SP 9 (Yinlingquan)
-Famous point to resolve dampness
-He Sea point of the spleen
RN 9 (Shuifen) "Water depart"
-Usually use moxa
KI 7 (Fuliiu)
-Jing River point of kidney
-Empirical point to nourish the kidney
FUNCTIONS:
-Tonifying spleen and draining dampness
-Inducing diuresis to alleviate edema
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reinforcing or even method, moxa is available
INDICATIONS:
-Edema, distribute on the face, or at the legs, or even the whole body
-Difficulty in micturition (emptying bladder)
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
SP 9: Warms and dissovles the dampness
RN 9: Tonifies spleen ang and dissolves water retnetion
KI 7: Warms the kidney and activates collaterals, induces diuresis
CLINICAL INDICATION:
-Wind edema
-Show in face, upper body, (eye, lips swollen)
-Exterior, aversion to cold, fever
-Combine with LU 7, to promote lung qi descending to kidney, allowing flow of fluids
-Causes yang edema
-Yin edema
-Lower part of the body
-Chronic onset
-Difficult to recover
-Press to make a dent (undents slowly)
-Caused by kidney problem
-Combine with DU, BL points such as DU 4, BL 23, RN 4
PRESCRIPTION FOR NOURISHING FLUID
KI 3 (taixi)
SP 6 (Sanyinjiao)
-Connected with liver, spleen and kidney
SI 6 (Yanglao)
FUNCTIONS:
-Regulating middle jiao to promote fluid
-Nourishing yin and supporting fluid
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reinforcing method
INDICATIONS:
-Dryness of lips, tongue, mouth and throat
-Constipation, short of urination
-Dizziness, loss of memory, tinnitus, five feverish centres, insomnia
-Dry cough
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
KI 3: Benefits kidney,nourishes yin, protects fluid
SP 6: Nourishes liver, kidney and spleen, promotes blood
SI 6: Nourishes and supports fluid
-Helps metabolize blood sugar
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS:
-Constipation
-Combine, ST 25, 36, 37
-Diabetes
-Can be caused by stomach, lung or kidney yin deficiency
-Combine with BL 23, KI 7
-Cough (Dry cough)
-Combine with BL 13, BL 43 (esp with chronic cough without sputum)
-Can use moxa
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR TREATING DISORDERS OF THE LUNG
FUNCTION OF LUNG:
-Dominate qi
-Dominate respiration
-Dominate the "pass-through" qi (of all over the body)
-Zong qi
-Depends on lung's function
-Comes from the stomach and spleen
-Comes from inhalation of clear qi
-Distributed throughout chest, disperses and descends nutrition all over the body
-Helps heart to regulate blood in circulation
-Regulate water passage
-Body fluid
-Sweat (turbid part, goes out of the body)
-Clear qi, disperse lung qi over body to nourish tissues and organs
-Lung
-Kidney (Lung descends water to kidney, which excretes turbid urine)
-Bowel movement (depends on lung qi for sufficient body fluids)
-Nose
-Skin (in tissues)
-Sweat
-Body hair
-Internally/Externally related with Large Intestine
LUNG DYSFUNCTION:
Cough, asthma, wheezing, constipation, exteriors, edema
-Excess
-Defciency
-Lung qi deficiency
-Lung yin deficiency
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR DISPERSING LUNG QI AND EXPELLING EXTERIOR PATHOGEN
LI 4 (Hegu)
-Wind-heat (to treat the fever)
-Yuan source
-Command point of face
LU 7 (Lieque)
-Wind-cold (attacking body)
-Command point of head and neck
-Luo connecting point (LI)
FUNCTIONS:
-Regulating the defensive qi and adjust sweating
-Expelling wind and releasing the exterior
-Regulating the face, eyes, nose, mouth
-LI 4 for facial paralysis
-LU 7 for exerior headache or stiff neck from wind cold
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reducing method
INDICATIONS:
-Exterior wind-cold or wind-heat pattern, chills and fever, injury by heat with great thirst, copious sweating or absence of sweating, floating pulse
-Headache, swelling of the face, deviation of the face and mouth, acute conjunctivitis
-LI 4 to expel heat
PRESCRIPTION ANALYISIS:
LI 4: Expels the wind-heat, relieve fever
-Wind heat
-Combine with SJ 5, GB 20, DU 14 (with cupping), LI 11
-Wind cold
-Combine with GB 20, BL 12 ("Wind Gate")
Deficiency type
-ST 36, RN 6, BL 13
LU 7: Expels exterior pathogen and disperses lung qi
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
-Common cold
-Bloodletting method
-LI 1, LU 11
-Combine with LI 20 to treat the nose
-Sweating: KI 7, LI 4
-Damp: SP 9
-Constipation: LI 11, ST 37
PRESCRIPTION FOR DESCENDING LUNG QI AND STOPPING COUGH
BL 13 (Feishu)
-Lung back-shu point
-Descending and dispersing function
LU 1 (Zhongfu)
-Front-mu of lung
LU 7 (Lieque)
-Lou connecting point with LI
LU 5 (Chize)
-He sea point of lung
-Treats both empty and excess heat
FUNCTIONS:
-Clearing heat from the lung
-LU 5
-Descending and dispersing lung qi
-BL 13 LU 1
Back-shu and front-mu combination
-Regulating water passages and resolving phlegm from the lung
-BL 13, LU 7
-Add ST 40 for obstructions
MANIPULATIONS:
Reducing or even method
-Bloodletting on LU 5 for asthma
INDICATIONS:
-Cough, pesistent cough, coughing phlegm, asthma, wheezing, dyspnea, agitation and fullness of the chest, chest pain, difficult breathing on lying down
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
BL 13 and LU 1: Back-shu and Front-mu combination, regulate the lung qi activity to descend lung qi, resovles lung phlegm
-Can use Jia ji point T3 instead of BL 13
-LU 1 oblique insertion toward the outside
LU 7: Disperses and descends lung qi
LU 5: Descends lung qi and clear away heat from lung
-Oblique or perpandicular insertion
CLINICAL APPLICATION:
-Cough
-Exterior cough (acute)
-LI 4, BL 12
-Interior cough (chronic, more difficult to treat, usually accompanied by deficiency symptoms)
-ST 40 (for phlegm-?) bl 23 (to help decending qi) SP 9 (to eliminate dampness)
-Spleen deficiency cough with sputum
-Kidney deficiency cough with asthma or wheezing
PRESCRIPTION FOR LUNG HEAT
LU 10 (Yuji)
-Excess heat (exterior)
-Shu stream point
LU 5 (Chize)
-Deficiency (empty heat)
FUNCTIONS:
-Clearing away heat from the lung
-For excess heat, (usually)
-Cough without sputum, thick, sticky, difficult to expectorate, yellow sputum
-Fever
-Dry nose
-Bleeding nose
-Heat sensation nose
-Acne
-Constipation
-Activating collaterals and benefiting throat
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reducing method
INDICATIONS:
-cough, sore throat, dry throat, loss of voice
-Spitting blood, coughing blood, nosebleed
PRESCRPTION ANALYSIS:
LU 10: Clears away heat from lung and benefit throat
LU 5: Clears lung heat and nourishes lung yin
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS:
-Sore throat
-Cough
-Combine K 3
-Heat with fever, use bloodletting method
PRESCRIPTION FOR TONIFYING LUNG QI
BL 13 (Feishu)
-Back shu of lung
LU 9 (Taiyuan)
-Shu stream point
-Mother point of lung
-Vessel meeting point
BL 20 (Pishu)
-Back shu of spleen
-Post natal qi
ST 36 (Zusanli)
-Tonify postnatal qi
FUNCTION:
-Tonifying the lung qi and stopping cough
-Strengthening spleen and resolving phlegm
-Caused by spleen qi deficiency (not transporting fluids)
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reinforce method
-Can also use moxa on back shu points
INDICATIONS:
-Cough, cough with watery phlegm, asthma, dyspnea, shortness of breath with no desire to speak, chest pain, fullness of the chest
-Spontaneious sweating, aversion to wind, easy to catch common cold, fatigue
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS
BL 13: Tonifies lung qi and stops cough
LU 9: Mother point of lung meridian, tonifies lung qi
BL 20: Tonifies spleen to nourish lung
ST 36 Strengthens health qi to nourish lung
CLINICAL APPLICATONS
-Cough, chronic asthma
-Fatigue
PRESCRIPTION FOR REDUCING LUNG AND SUBSIDING WHEEZING
RN 17 (Tanzhong)
DINGCHUAN "Subsiding wheezing"
ST 40 (Fenglong)
LU 6 (Kongzui)
FUNCTIONS:
-Descending the rebellious lung qi
-Expelling phlegm and subsiding wheezing
MANIPULATIONS
-Reducing method
INDICATIONS:
-Asthma, wheezing, cough
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
RN 17: Eight influential point of qi, can open the chest, regulate qi activity, and descend the rebellious qi
DINGCHUAN: Subsides wheezing and removes phlegm
ST 40: Resolves phlegm
LU 6: Xi-Cleft point of the lung meridian, empirical point in treating acute asthma
CLINICAL APPLICATION:
-Asthma
-Wheezing
ASTHMA
-Phlegm
-Lung qi deficiency
-Allergic
-Wind cold attacking
LUNG
-Excess
-Exterior attacking body
-Heat from the lung
-Phlegm
-Deficiency
-Lung qi deficiency
-Lung yin deficiency
-Thin fluid
-Circulated in organs
-Marrow
-Brain
-Moisten joints
-Nourish organs and marrows
-Thick fluid
-Water metabolism
-From water, liquid diet
-Stomach (depends on the spleen)
-Sweat
-Urine
STOMACH, spleen transformed, sent to lung, descends to kidney (which dominates the water)
-Clear
-Turbid
-Sweat
-Turbid qi (exhalation)
-Urine
Liver
-Qi circulation
PATHOGENIC FACTORS
-Damp
-Phlegm
-Water
-Edema
RESOLVE: let the phlegm disappear by metabolism
RELIEVE: help to move the phlegm from one place to another in the body
PRESCRIPTION FOR RESOLVING PHLEGM
RN 12 (Zhong Wan)
-Front mu of stomach
-Influential point
-Fu meeting point
-Regulate 6 fu organs
ST 40 (Feng Long)
-Luo connecting point
-Regulate stomach and spleen to resolve phlegm
-Empirical point to treat phlegm
FUNCTION:
-Transforming phlegm and dampness
-Clearing phlegm from the lung and alleviating cough and wheezing
-Related to lung qi
-Clearing phlegm from the heart and calming the spirit
-Harmonizing middle jiao and descending rebellion
MANIPULATIONS
-Reducing method at ST 40
-Reducing or even method at RN12
-Puncture perpandicularly
-Scrape lower to upper to reduce
INDICATIONS:
-cough with copious phlegm, wheezing, dyspnea, asthma, fullness, oppression and pain of the chest, edema
-Resolve phlegm in the lung
-Abdominal pain, vomiting, difficulty in passing urine and stools
-Phlegm obstructing kidney qi transmitting function
-Mania-depression, dementia, epilepsy, hypertension
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
RN 12: Regulates middle jiao and qi
ST 40: Resolves phlegm and descending turbid
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS:
-Goiter
-Resolving phlegm and promoting circulation
-Combine with RN 22, ST 9
-Depression
-Accompanied with dementia due to stagnation of qi and blood
-Combine with DU 20, PC 6 (pc 6 connects with ying wei meridian, which connects to the heart)
-Dizziness
-Combine with LR 3 to move qi stagnation
PRESCRIPTION FOR RELIEVING PHLEGM AND OPENING ORIFICES
DU 24 (Shenting) "Spirit Place"
DU 26 (Renzhong) (in ancient time called "Gui Shi" or "Ghost Place")
ST 40 (Fenglong) "Here is where muscle is strong."
FUNCTIONS:
-Restoring consciousness and calming spirit
-resolving phlegm and opening orifices
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reducing method at ST 40 and DU 26
-Reducing or even method at DU 24
INDICATIONS:
-Sudden loss of consciousnes, coma, loss of consciousnes from windstroke, deviation of the face and mouth
-Mania-depression, epilepsy, inappropriate laughter, unexpected laughter and crying, insomnia
-Epilepsy: use with RN 15
-Lou connecting point of Ren
-Yuan source point, Gao-Huang (Bing Ru- if disease infects Gau Huang -below the heart- it is very difficult to treat)
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
DU 24: Dissolves the phlegm and calms the spirit
DU 26: Opens the orifices and activates the collaterals
ST 40: Removes and dissovles the phlegm, calms the mind and spirit
CLINICAL APPLICATION:
Mania-Depression
-Phlegm obstruction in brain
-Disease changes as phlegm moves
-Difficult diseases with unknown etiology are often phlegm diseases
PRESCRIPTION FOR INDUCING DIURESIS TO ALLEVIATE EDEMA
SP 9 (Yinlingquan)
-Famous point to resolve dampness
-He Sea point of the spleen
RN 9 (Shuifen) "Water depart"
-Usually use moxa
KI 7 (Fuliiu)
-Jing River point of kidney
-Empirical point to nourish the kidney
FUNCTIONS:
-Tonifying spleen and draining dampness
-Inducing diuresis to alleviate edema
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reinforcing or even method, moxa is available
INDICATIONS:
-Edema, distribute on the face, or at the legs, or even the whole body
-Difficulty in micturition (emptying bladder)
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
SP 9: Warms and dissovles the dampness
RN 9: Tonifies spleen ang and dissolves water retnetion
KI 7: Warms the kidney and activates collaterals, induces diuresis
CLINICAL INDICATION:
-Wind edema
-Show in face, upper body, (eye, lips swollen)
-Exterior, aversion to cold, fever
-Combine with LU 7, to promote lung qi descending to kidney, allowing flow of fluids
-Causes yang edema
-Yin edema
-Lower part of the body
-Chronic onset
-Difficult to recover
-Press to make a dent (undents slowly)
-Caused by kidney problem
-Combine with DU, BL points such as DU 4, BL 23, RN 4
PRESCRIPTION FOR NOURISHING FLUID
KI 3 (taixi)
SP 6 (Sanyinjiao)
-Connected with liver, spleen and kidney
SI 6 (Yanglao)
FUNCTIONS:
-Regulating middle jiao to promote fluid
-Nourishing yin and supporting fluid
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reinforcing method
INDICATIONS:
-Dryness of lips, tongue, mouth and throat
-Constipation, short of urination
-Dizziness, loss of memory, tinnitus, five feverish centres, insomnia
-Dry cough
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
KI 3: Benefits kidney,nourishes yin, protects fluid
SP 6: Nourishes liver, kidney and spleen, promotes blood
SI 6: Nourishes and supports fluid
-Helps metabolize blood sugar
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS:
-Constipation
-Combine, ST 25, 36, 37
-Diabetes
-Can be caused by stomach, lung or kidney yin deficiency
-Combine with BL 23, KI 7
-Cough (Dry cough)
-Combine with BL 13, BL 43 (esp with chronic cough without sputum)
-Can use moxa
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR TREATING DISORDERS OF THE LUNG
FUNCTION OF LUNG:
-Dominate qi
-Dominate respiration
-Dominate the "pass-through" qi (of all over the body)
-Zong qi
-Depends on lung's function
-Comes from the stomach and spleen
-Comes from inhalation of clear qi
-Distributed throughout chest, disperses and descends nutrition all over the body
-Helps heart to regulate blood in circulation
-Regulate water passage
-Body fluid
-Sweat (turbid part, goes out of the body)
-Clear qi, disperse lung qi over body to nourish tissues and organs
-Lung
-Kidney (Lung descends water to kidney, which excretes turbid urine)
-Bowel movement (depends on lung qi for sufficient body fluids)
-Nose
-Skin (in tissues)
-Sweat
-Body hair
-Internally/Externally related with Large Intestine
LUNG DYSFUNCTION:
Cough, asthma, wheezing, constipation, exteriors, edema
-Excess
-Defciency
-Lung qi deficiency
-Lung yin deficiency
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR DISPERSING LUNG QI AND EXPELLING EXTERIOR PATHOGEN
LI 4 (Hegu)
-Wind-heat (to treat the fever)
-Yuan source
-Command point of face
LU 7 (Lieque)
-Wind-cold (attacking body)
-Command point of head and neck
-Luo connecting point (LI)
FUNCTIONS:
-Regulating the defensive qi and adjust sweating
-Expelling wind and releasing the exterior
-Regulating the face, eyes, nose, mouth
-LI 4 for facial paralysis
-LU 7 for exerior headache or stiff neck from wind cold
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reducing method
INDICATIONS:
-Exterior wind-cold or wind-heat pattern, chills and fever, injury by heat with great thirst, copious sweating or absence of sweating, floating pulse
-Headache, swelling of the face, deviation of the face and mouth, acute conjunctivitis
-LI 4 to expel heat
PRESCRIPTION ANALYISIS:
LI 4: Expels the wind-heat, relieve fever
-Wind heat
-Combine with SJ 5, GB 20, DU 14 (with cupping), LI 11
-Wind cold
-Combine with GB 20, BL 12 ("Wind Gate")
Deficiency type
-ST 36, RN 6, BL 13
LU 7: Expels exterior pathogen and disperses lung qi
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
-Common cold
-Bloodletting method
-LI 1, LU 11
-Combine with LI 20 to treat the nose
-Sweating: KI 7, LI 4
-Damp: SP 9
-Constipation: LI 11, ST 37
PRESCRIPTION FOR DESCENDING LUNG QI AND STOPPING COUGH
BL 13 (Feishu)
-Lung back-shu point
-Descending and dispersing function
LU 1 (Zhongfu)
-Front-mu of lung
LU 7 (Lieque)
-Lou connecting point with LI
LU 5 (Chize)
-He sea point of lung
-Treats both empty and excess heat
FUNCTIONS:
-Clearing heat from the lung
-LU 5
-Descending and dispersing lung qi
-BL 13 LU 1
Back-shu and front-mu combination
-Regulating water passages and resolving phlegm from the lung
-BL 13, LU 7
-Add ST 40 for obstructions
MANIPULATIONS:
Reducing or even method
-Bloodletting on LU 5 for asthma
INDICATIONS:
-Cough, pesistent cough, coughing phlegm, asthma, wheezing, dyspnea, agitation and fullness of the chest, chest pain, difficult breathing on lying down
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
BL 13 and LU 1: Back-shu and Front-mu combination, regulate the lung qi activity to descend lung qi, resovles lung phlegm
-Can use Jia ji point T3 instead of BL 13
-LU 1 oblique insertion toward the outside
LU 7: Disperses and descends lung qi
LU 5: Descends lung qi and clear away heat from lung
-Oblique or perpandicular insertion
CLINICAL APPLICATION:
-Cough
-Exterior cough (acute)
-LI 4, BL 12
-Interior cough (chronic, more difficult to treat, usually accompanied by deficiency symptoms)
-ST 40 (for phlegm-?) bl 23 (to help decending qi) SP 9 (to eliminate dampness)
-Spleen deficiency cough with sputum
-Kidney deficiency cough with asthma or wheezing
PRESCRIPTION FOR LUNG HEAT
LU 10 (Yuji)
-Excess heat (exterior)
-Shu stream point
LU 5 (Chize)
-Deficiency (empty heat)
FUNCTIONS:
-Clearing away heat from the lung
-For excess heat, (usually)
-Cough without sputum, thick, sticky, difficult to expectorate, yellow sputum
-Fever
-Dry nose
-Bleeding nose
-Heat sensation nose
-Acne
-Constipation
-Activating collaterals and benefiting throat
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reducing method
INDICATIONS:
-cough, sore throat, dry throat, loss of voice
-Spitting blood, coughing blood, nosebleed
PRESCRPTION ANALYSIS:
LU 10: Clears away heat from lung and benefit throat
LU 5: Clears lung heat and nourishes lung yin
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS:
-Sore throat
-Cough
-Combine K 3
-Heat with fever, use bloodletting method
PRESCRIPTION FOR TONIFYING LUNG QI
BL 13 (Feishu)
-Back shu of lung
LU 9 (Taiyuan)
-Shu stream point
-Mother point of lung
-Vessel meeting point
BL 20 (Pishu)
-Back shu of spleen
-Post natal qi
ST 36 (Zusanli)
-Tonify postnatal qi
FUNCTION:
-Tonifying the lung qi and stopping cough
-Strengthening spleen and resolving phlegm
-Caused by spleen qi deficiency (not transporting fluids)
MANIPULATIONS:
-Reinforce method
-Can also use moxa on back shu points
INDICATIONS:
-Cough, cough with watery phlegm, asthma, dyspnea, shortness of breath with no desire to speak, chest pain, fullness of the chest
-Spontaneious sweating, aversion to wind, easy to catch common cold, fatigue
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS
BL 13: Tonifies lung qi and stops cough
LU 9: Mother point of lung meridian, tonifies lung qi
BL 20: Tonifies spleen to nourish lung
ST 36 Strengthens health qi to nourish lung
CLINICAL APPLICATONS
-Cough, chronic asthma
-Fatigue
PRESCRIPTION FOR REDUCING LUNG AND SUBSIDING WHEEZING
RN 17 (Tanzhong)
DINGCHUAN "Subsiding wheezing"
ST 40 (Fenglong)
LU 6 (Kongzui)
FUNCTIONS:
-Descending the rebellious lung qi
-Expelling phlegm and subsiding wheezing
MANIPULATIONS
-Reducing method
INDICATIONS:
-Asthma, wheezing, cough
PRESCRIPTION ANALYSIS:
RN 17: Eight influential point of qi, can open the chest, regulate qi activity, and descend the rebellious qi
DINGCHUAN: Subsides wheezing and removes phlegm
ST 40: Resolves phlegm
LU 6: Xi-Cleft point of the lung meridian, empirical point in treating acute asthma
CLINICAL APPLICATION:
-Asthma
-Wheezing
ASTHMA
-Phlegm
-Lung qi deficiency
-Allergic
-Wind cold attacking
LUNG
-Excess
-Exterior attacking body
-Heat from the lung
-Phlegm
-Deficiency
-Lung qi deficiency
-Lung yin deficiency
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