HEART – Hand ShaoYin Acupuncture Meridian (jing luo)

HEART – Hand Shao Yin

HT 1 (jiquan)

angina, palpitations, local pain, loosens chest

Location: in the center of the armpit, medial to the axillary artery.

HT 3 (shaohai)

angina, palpitations, local pain, irritable, mania/withdrawal

Location: at the medial end of the transverse cubital crease when the elbow is flexed.

HT 4 (lingdao)

soothe Liver (sinews), Tonify Heart blood/Yin, loss of voice

Location: on the redial side of the tendon of flexor carpi ulnaris, 1.5 cun proximal to shenmen.

HT 5 (tongli)

Connect to Small Intestine

racing heart, sudden loss of voice, stiff tongue

Location: 0.5 cun distal to lingdao.

HT 6 (yinxi)

Xi Cleft

clear excess or deficiency Heart Fire, Yin deficiency, cardiac pain, vomit/nose blood, steaming bone

Location: 0.5 cun distal to tongli.

HT 7 (shenmen)

Yuan source

insomnia, mania/withdrawal, visceral agitation, cools Ying

Location: on the crease of the wrist, in the depression at the proximal border of the pisiform bone.

HT 8 (shaofu)

urination problems from Heart Fire

Location: on the palm between the 4th & 5th metacarpal bones where the tip of the little finger hits when a fist is made.

HT 9 (shaochong)

opens portals (mind), clouding inversion, resuscitates

Location: 1 fen proximal to the radial corner of the little finger nail.