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yin channel element order
empirical food retention
yang channel element order
4 needle deficiency syndrome
4 needle excess syndrome
aphasia and tongue stiffness

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Yin Channel element order - Answer- JW -- Wood
YS -- Fire
SS -- Earth
JR -- Metal
HS -- Water

Yang Channel element order - Answer- JW -- Metal
YS -- Water
SS -- Wood
JR -- Fire
HS -- Earth

4 needle -- deficiency syndrome - Answer- tonify horary point on mother channel

tonify mother element on affected channel

sedate the horary point on controlling channel

sedate controlling element on affected channel

4 needle -- excess syndrome - Answer- tonify the horary point on the controlling
channel

tonify the controlling point on the affected channel

sedate the horary point on son channel

sedate son point on affected channel

K-8 - Answer- Xi Cleft of Yin Qiao

2 cun above K3, 1/2 cun anterior to K7

BL-59 (bp) - Answer- Xi Cleft of Yang Qiao

3 cun superior to BL-60

GB-35 (bp) - Answer- Xi Cleft of Yang Wei

7 cun above top of lateral malleolus, posterior border of fibula

K-9 (bp) - Answer- Xi Cleft of Yin Wei

5 cun above K3

Ren Luo point - Answer- Ren15

,7 above umbilicus

Du Luo point - Answer- Du 1

middle point between coccyx and anus

when there is invisible phlegm missing HT, which point best opens orifices? -
Answer- H9 (jing, wood)

LU9 (bp) - Answer- Shu Stream
Earth
Yuan Source
Influential: Vessels

on transverse crease of wrist, in depression on radial side of radial artery

aphasia and tongue stiffness - Answer- H5 and Du15, Ren23

HT points - Answer- H4 Jing River, metal
H5 aphasia, Luo
H6 night sweats, Xi Cleft
H7 insomia, Shu Stream, earth
H8 tongue sores, Ying Spring, fire

P-4 (bp) - Answer- Xi Cleft
(acute chest pain)

5 cun proximal to P-7, between tendons

P-5 (bp) - Answer- (empirical: malaria)
Jing River
Metal

3 cun proximal to P-7, between tendons

empirical food retention - Answer- Inner NeiTing

Liv5 nerve caution - Answer- saphenous nerve

P-6 nerve caution - Answer- medial nerve

LU-10 (bp) - Answer- Ying Spring
Fire

midpoint of 1st metacarpal bone, between red/white skin

LU-11 (bp) - Answer- Jing Well
Wood

,radial side of thumb, 0.1 cun posterior to nail

LI-20 (bp) - Answer- Exit

in nasiolabial sulcus, at level of inferior border of nostril

LI-18 (bp) - Answer- Window of the Sky

level with tip of laryngeal prominence, between sternal and clavicular heads of SCM

LI-11 (bp) - Answer- He Sea
Earth
Ghost

midway between LU-5 and lateral epicondyle of humerus, lateral end of transverse
cubital crease

LI-7 (bp) - Answer- Xi Cleft

5 cun proximal to LI-5, on line connecting LI-5 and LI-11

LI-6 (bp) - Answer- Luo Connecting

3 cun proximal to LI-5, on line connecting LI-5 and LI-11

LI-5 (bp) - Answer- Jing River
Fire

in the center of the hollow formed by tendons of extensor pollicis longus and brevis

LI-4 (bp) - Answer- Entry
Yuan Source
Command: face/head

at bulge of muscle between thumb/index, level with end of crease

LI-3 (bp) - Answer- Shu Stream
Wood

radial side of index finger, in depression proximal to head of second metacarpal

LI-2 (bp) - Answer- Ying Spring
Water

radial side of index finger, in depression distal to metacarpo-phalangeal joint

LI-1 (bp) - Answer- Jing Well
Metal

posterior-radial corner of index finger nail

, ST-1 (bp) - Answer- Entry
Meeting: ST, Yang Qiao, Ren

directly below pupil, between eyeball and infraorbital ridge

ST-9 (bp) - Answer- Window of the Sky
Sea of Qi

Meeting: ST, GB

level with tip of laryngeal prominence, at anterior border of SCM

ST-25 (bp) - Answer- Front Mu of LI

2 cun lateral to umbilicus

ST-30 (bp) - Answer- Meeting: ST, Chong
Sea of Water and Grain

2 cun lateral to midline, at superior border of pubic symphisis

ST-34 (bp) - Answer- Xi Cleft

2 cun proximal to lateral superior border of patella

ST-36 (bp) - Answer- He Sea
Earth
Sea of Water and Grain
Command: abdomen

3 cun inferior to ST-35, 1 finger lateral to tibial crest

ST-37 (bp) - Answer- Lower He Sea of LI
Sea of Blood

3 cun inferior to ST-36, 1 finger lateral to tibial crest

ST-39 (bp) - Answer- Lower He Sea of SI
Sea of Blood

3 cun inferior to ST-37, 1 finger lateral to tibial crest

ST-40 (bp) - Answer- Luo Connecting
Empirical: phlegm (substantial/insubstantial)

midway between tibiofemoral joint and lateral malleolus, 2 fingers lateral to tibial
crest

ST-41 (bp) - Answer- Jing River

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