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POINT: KI-3 (KIDNEY-3)  

NAME: TAIXI

English: Supreme Stream
Also Known As: Great River
Supreme Brook
Excessive Brook
Lushi
Great Creek
Greater Mountain Stream
Supreme Valley
Reflecting Sea
Bigger Sea
Greater Stream

LOCATION:

  • In the depression between the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon, level with the prominence of the medial malleolus. Locate in the center of the depression, midway between the prominence of the medial malleolus and the posterior border of the Achilles tendon.
  • In the depression between the tip of the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon.
  • Located in the depression between the medial malleolus and the tendocalcaneus, level with the vertex of the medial malleolus.

NEEDLING:

  • Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun or join to UB-60 Kunlun. Sensation: distention and soreness, possibly a numb sensation extending to the sole of the foot.
  • For pain in the sole of the foot, point the needle slightly toward the medial malleolus, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: an electric, numb sensation extending to the sole of the foot.
  • Puncture perpendicularly0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Shu-Stream point of the Kidney channel
  • Yuan-Source point of the Kidney channel
  • Earth point of the Kidney channel

ACTIONS:

  • Nourishes Kidney Yin
  • Benefits the Kidneys
  • Clears Deficiency Heat
  • Tonifies Kidney Yang
  • Anchors the Qi
  • Benefits the Lungs
  • Strengthens the lumbar spine
  • Strengthens the lower back and knees
  • Cools Heat
  • Promotes the function of them uterus
  • Benefits Jing
  • Regulates the uterus
  • Tonifies Blood
  • Warms Cold
  • Restores collapsed Yin
  • Calms the fetus
  • Strengthens the brain
  • Regulates menstruation
  • Regulates the water pathways

INDICATIONS:

  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Headache
  • Dizziness
  • Toothache
  • Nosebleed
  • Sore throat
  • Pharyngitis
  • Chronic laryngitis
  • Tonsillitis
  • Throat blockage
  • Laryngitis
  • Heat sensation in the mouth that feels like glue
  • Wasting and thirsting disorder
  • Hot disease with copious sweating
  • Chronic malaria
  • Emaciation
  • Seminal emission
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Impotence
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Sexual taxation
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Lumbar pain
  • Pain of the abdomen and lateral costal regions
  • Injury by Cold with inversion counter flow of the hands and feet
  • Swelling and pain of the ankle
  • Cold limbs, especially knees and elbows
  • Suffocation
  • Hiccups
  • Fever
  • Flank pain
  • Diabetes
  • Middle Jiao wasting and thirsting
  • Thirst
  • Pain in the renal region
  • Pain in the lower thoracic region
  • Atony of both legs
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Neurasthenia
  • Breast abscess
  • Mastitis
  • Constipation
  • Spasms of the diaphragm
  • Infantile convulsions
  • Yin hernia
  • Severe jaundice
  • Sticky saliva in the mouth
  • Diarrhea
  • Syrupy painful urinary dysfunction
  • Renal colic
  • Hands icy to the wrist
  • Epilepsy
  • Cough
  • Hemoptysis
  • Emphysema
  • Tuberculosis
  • Cough with no pleasure in eating
  • Wheezing
  • Dyspnea
  • Asthma
  • Chest pain
  • Insomnia
  • Poor memory
  • Excessive dreaming
  • Heat sensations in the palms
  • Stabbing pain in the Heart
  • Frequent, copious urination
  • Enuresis
  • Epigastric pain
  • Heat in the hypogastrium with yellow urine
  • Abdominal distention
  • Difficult defecation
  • Cold Shan disorder
  • Damp, itchy skin lesions on the inner thigh
  • Coldness of the lower limbs
  • Numbness and pain of the legs
  • Swelling and pain of the heel
  • Vomiting
  • Anhydrosis in febrile disease
  • Anorexia
  • Attack of perverse exogenous pathogen
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Pulmonary catarrh
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Somnolence
  • Nephritis
  • Lumbar vertebra pain
  • Paralysis of the lower limb
  • Tiredness and insensitivity of the feet
  • Alopecia
  • Pain in the sole of the foot
  • Uterine diseases
  • Uterine spasms
  • Restlessness and Heart pain
  • Bronchitis
  • Pruritis
  • Sighs a lot
  • Vomiting abundant mucus
  • Inflammation of the mouth
  • Heart pain like a needle with icy limbs
  • Migraines
  • Four limbs heavy and weary
  • Hypertension due to Kidney Yin Deficiency
  • Chronic consumptive disorders
  • Menopausal syndrome

COMBINATIONS:

SI-1
Shaoze

KI-2
Rangu

SJ-3
Zhongzhu

Dry throat

Heat in the mouth with saliva like glue

Swelling of the inside of the throat

Swelling of the throat

REN-19
Zigong
REN-18
Yutang

UB-23
Shenshu
UB-40
Weizhong
UB-30
Baihuanshu

KI-4
Dazhong
LI-13
Shouwuli
 KI-6
Zhaohai
LI-2
Erjian

or

KI-6
Zhaohai
DU-20
Baihui
GB-21
Jianjing
LI-2
Erjian
LI-3
Sanjian
 ST-45
Lidui
UB-18
Ganshu

Cough with rebellious Qi and agitation

Lumbar pain due to Kidney Deficiency

Somnolence

REN-4
Guanyuan

UB-57
Chengshan

KI-10
Yingu
UB-23
Shenshu
REN-6
Qihai
UB-28
Pangguangshu
REN-4
Guanyuan

Ceaseless diarrhea and dysenteric disorder

Difficult defecation

Dark urine

LU-10
Yuji
REN-3
Zhongji
SP-6
Sanyinjiao

UB-60
Kunlun

SP-9
Yinlingquan
GB-30
Huantiao
GB-38
Yangfu
UB-67
Zhiyin

Pain of the penis

Pain of the inner and outer ankle

Paralysis of the lower extremity

UB-60
Kunlun
UB-62
Shenmai

N-HN-54
Anmian
LIV-3
Taichong

 

Redness, swelling and pain of the leg and foot

Aural vertigo

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This is the most important point for treating Yin Deficiency.
  • This is an extremely important point used to tonify any Deficiency of the Kidneys.
  • This point is good for diseases of Nu, a type of alternating chills and fever.
  • This is also said to be a good point for dental pain.
  • This point is good to use if the Heart pulse is deep.
  • This point affects the pancreas.