SMALL INTESTINE – Hand TaiYang Acupuncture Meridian (jing luo)

SMALL INTESTINE – Hand Tai Yang

SI 1 (shaoze)

promotes lactation, swollen throat, eye screens

Location: 1 fen proximal to the ulnar side of the corner of the little finger.

SI 3 (houxi)

protects Wei Qi, stiff neck/headache, night sweat, arm disorders

Location (houxi): at the end of the crease on the ulnar side of the metacarpal bone when a fist is made.

SI 6 (yanglao)

Xi cleft

blurred vision, arm/neck problems

Location: when the hand is placed on the chest, the point is found on the radial side of the high point of the head of the ulna.

SI 7 (zhizheng)

Connect to Heart

mania/withdrawal, arm problems

Location: 5 cun above the wrist crease between the border of the ulna & the muscle belly of the flexor carpi ulnaris.

SI 8 (xiaohai)

arm/neck/shoulder

Location: in the dip between the ulnar olecranon & the medial epicondyle of the humerus.

SI 10 (naoshu)

arm/neck weak/shoulder

Location: straight above the posterior crease of the axilla, in the depression below the spine of the scapula.

SI 11 (tianzong)

arm/neck/shoulder

Location: one third of the distance from the midpoint of the inferior border of the scaular spine to the inferior angle of the scapula.

SI 12 (bingfeng)

arm/neck/shoulder

Location: above tianzong in the center of the suprascapular fossa (just above the spine), between T2 & the tip of the acromion.

SI 14 (jianwaishu)

neck/shoulder/back

Location: 3 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of T1 (DU 13).

SI 15 (jianzhongzhu)

neck/shoulder/back

Location: 2 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of C7 (DU 14).

SI 17 (tianrong)

deafness/tinnitus, Plum Pit syndrome, sore throat

Location: in the depression between the angle of the mandible & the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle.

SI 18 (quanliao)

facial paralysis, twitching eyelids

Location: directly below the outer canthus, in the depression at the lower border of the zygomatic bone.

SI 19 (tinggong)

meeting point of Small Intestine Gallbladder San Jiao opens ear portals

Location: with mouth open, in the depression between the middle of the tragus & the condyloid process of the mandible.