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rx
point
SI-5: II-5: yang gu
acupuncture
definition
yang gu = yang valley
Jing River, Fire and Horary point of the Hand Tai Yang (Small Intestine) channel
location: On the ulnar aspect of the wrist, between the ulnar styloid process and the triquetral bone.
actions: clears Heat; dispels Wind-Heat; pacifies the Shen; clears the Brain; calms fright; opens the sensory Orifices; "very effective in helping the person to gain clarity and a sense of direction in life" (Maciocia, p. 274); spreads Lung Qi; transforms Phlegm; regulates Qi of the Small Intestine; reduces swelling, esp. disperses Damp-Heat in the knees (Finkelstein, p. 34)
indications: insanity; mania; fears and fright, esp. in children; excessive or inappropriate laughing; loquacity; delirium; depression; weakness; epilepsy; spasms or convulsions in infants and children; parotitis; fever; lightheadedness; dizziness; deafness; tinnitus; eye redness and pain; incoherent speech; stomatitis; tongue stiffness; gingivitis; toothache; children cannot suckle; intercostal neuralgia; painful hemorrhoids; cannot raise arm; pain in the wrist and lateral aspect of the arm; neuralgia of arm and wrist; scabies
needle technique: perpendicular or slanted insertion, 0.3 - 0.6 cun, producing a local sensation of soreness and distension, possibly spreading to palm
moxa: 3 cones of direct moxa; 10 - 20 minutes of indirect moxa with a pole
combinations:
» with GV-24, GV-23, GV-22, GV-21, GV-19, GB-19, GB-20, Sp-2, UB-67, UB-63, UB-62 and St-36 for dizziness (Shanghai, p. 686).
footnotes
Reprinted from The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, Giovanni, p. 274, 1989, by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone, a division of Elsevier Limited.