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DU
Mai
DU1
(changqiang)
- [connect to
Ren] harmonize Yin Yang & bowels, hemafecia,
hemorrhoids,
prolapse
- Location :
between coccyx & anus
DU2
(yaoshu)
- warms low
Jiao, Wind/Damp,
hemorrhoids,
irregular menses
- Location :
in the sacro-coccygeal hiatus
DU3
- warm LR KI,
low Jiao Damp/Cold, sciatica, lumbosacral pain
- Location (yaoyangguan):
below L4
DU4
- tonify KI &
Essence (leukorrhea), soothe sinews, harmonize blood, cold or
5am diarrhea
- Location (mingmen):
below L2
DU9
- tonify Yang
Qi, loosen chest (cough), clear Damp/Heat (jaundice), chest &
back pain
- Location (zhiyang):
below T7
DU11
-
internal/external Wind, calms spirit, impaired memory
- Location (shendao):
below T5
DU12
-
internal/external Wind, clear Heat (Ying, fever, HT, Wind/Heat),
tonify LU
- Location (shenzhu):
below T3
DU13
- expel Wind
Heat, clear LU Heat, tonifies deficiency
- Location (taodao):
below T1
DU14
-
[intersection of 6 Fu]
-
external/internal Heat, severe Yin deficiency (steaming bone,
tidal fever), local problems, frees Yang Qi, clear LU, calm
spirit (HT, epilepsy), common cold
- Location (dazhui):
below C7
DU15
- [9 needle
to return Yang]
- Heat Bi,
clear/open Shen, wind strike, occipital headache
- Location (yamen):
0.5 cun within hairline
DU16
- [Ghost]
- Wind/Cold
or Wind/Heat, calms spirit, drain Fire
- Location (fengfu):
1 cun within hairline
DU20 (baihui)
-
[intersection of 6 Fu]
- LR Wind,
calms spirit, returns inversion, raises Yang Qi, Heat in Yang
Jing, headache (LR deficiency), diarrhea, insomnia, rectal
prolapse
- Location:
at the vertex of the head (highest point)
DU23 (shangxing)
- [Ghost]
- open head &
nose (headache/congestion), eye problems, stop bleeding (nose)
- Location:
1 cun posterior to the anterior hairline
DU24 (shenting)
- calm LR &
LR Wind, calms spirit, nasal congestion, insomnia, headache
- Location :
0.5 cun within anterior hairline
DU26 (renzhong)
- returns
inversion, calm spirit, dispel Wind, stubborn hiccups, lumbar
pain/stiffness
- Location:
above the upper lip on the midline, at the junction of the
upper 1/3 & lower 2/3 of the philtrum.
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