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Acupuncture reference (3)
As an
acupuncturist, you learned how to choose acupuncture points
for treatment. You know how to choose the acupuncture points
by the distribution of meridians, by Five-element plus Wei-Qi-Ying-Xue
diagnosis, by Ba Hui Xue (Eight-Crossing points), by Jing-Xin-Shu-Jing-He
principles. Here are some more choices: to choose the
acupuncture points by experience. Some of the experience you
may have heard before. For example, to choose Jianjing point
for breast infection (abscess) or use Fuliu for dry mouth or
extreme thirsty. The data are from old and famous book
<<Zhou Hou Ge>>. It is originally in Chinese. Clinic
experience tells us that it is indeed that some acupuncture
points have relatively more specific healing effects for
some clinic conditions.
<< Zhouhou
Ge>>
Zhiyin: for
all problems in face and head;
Fengfu: for
all problems in leg and feet;
Shaofu: for
problems in chest and heart;
Ququan: for
problems in belly (stomach area);
Zhongzhe:
for problems in shoulder;
Jiaoxing:
for problems in lower back and knee;
Houxi: for
pain in side of body and in legs;
Taichong:
for swelling in knees;
Baihui: for
swelling and enlargement, in front of
Yongquan:
for pain in the top of head, so pain as not be able to open
eyes;
Chize: for
disinformation, swelling and pain in the knees; (the healing
effect will be better when combining the use of Quchi and Fengfu);
Chize: for
stiff and spasm in elbow;
Quchi: for
stiff and spasm in back;
Chengshan:
for all kinds of piles (hemorrhoid);
Fenglong:
for asthma; (acupuncture needle should be inserted deeper);
Jianshi: for
madness, night sweat, psychological problems;
Lingdao: for
cold feeling deeper as in bones;
Jianshi
through Zhigou: for hot-cold-hot shift, e.g. clinic condition as
in malaria; (with moxibustion on Dazhui), if it onsets every
day, use Jingmen too. If it comes once every three days, patient
feels cold first then hot, without other symptoms, use Fuliu. If
he feels more hot and less cold, use Jianshi.
Jieque:
For acute epidemiologic diseases. Patient feels fever, has stiff
jaws to open mouth, and has stiff neck to reverse bend the neck,
and has eye steering front forwards;
Fuliu:
For acute epidemiologic diseases. Patient feels very cold in
hands and feet. His pulse is hard to feel.
Xuanzhong:
with supplying technique: for cold (pulse is deeper and thin);
with depletion technique: for fever (pulse is floating and big);
Hegu:
used when patient is with tight closed mount and closed eye, the
condition is called Baihe Bing in TCM; If patient has ulcer in
mouth and in vagina, herbs such as Huanglian and Xijiao should
also be used.
Dicang:
for worms in belly;
Yongquan:
for bloating feeling in chest, without no sweat and blurring
vision; Yongquan creates sweat to expel the stagnated Xue Qi in
the body.
Qimen:
for hard and bloating feeling in upper middle and upper side of
stomach with pain.
Hegu:
to create sweat;
Fuliu:
to stop sweat;
Zhigou:
to release stagnated Qi in the belly (patient feels bloating,
may or may not have nausea, vomiting, or gas);
Shaoshang:
for condition similar to tetanus; reverse bend of body and neck,
with tightly closed eye and mouth (due to muscle spasm), and
with red face due to fever. If it is typical tetanus,
acupuncture the broken skin area first, then acupuncture the
point of Chengshan.
Yinbao:
for bloating, nausea, pain in upper stomach;
Dadu:
for chronic pain in the lower back and knee;
Kunlong
and Taixi: for chronic pain in the knee and ankles;
Dazhu
and Quanquan: for chronic arthritis;
Zhigou:
for pain in the feet and the area under the ribs;
Weizhong:
for weakness of lower back;
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