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POINT: LI-1 (LARGE INTESTINE-1)

NAME: SHANGYANG

English: Shang Yang
Also Known As: Commercial Sunlight
Musical Yang
Merchant of Yang
Metal Yang
Trade Yang
Metal's Note Yang

LOCATION:

  • About 0.1 cun from the base of the index fingernail at the radial side.
  • On the dorsal aspect of the index finger, at the junction of the lines drawn along the radial border of the nail and the base of the nail, approximately 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail.

NEEDLING:

  • Straight insertion, 0.2 to 0.3 cun, or prick to bleed.
  • Perpendicular or oblique insertion directed proximally 0.1 to 0.2 cun, or prick to bleed.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Metal point
  • Horary point
  • Jing-Well point

ACTIONS:

  • Dispels Wind-Heat
  • Clears Heat
  • Brightens the eyes
  • Benefits the throat
  • Calms the mind
  • Expels Wind
  • Scatters Cold
  • Reduces swelling
  • Alleviates pain
  • Revives consciousness

INDICATIONS:

  • Sensation of swelling in the chest
  • Cough
  • Anhidrosis in febrile disease
  • Dry mouth
  • Fever
  • Heat
  • Deafness
  • Hardness of hearing
  • Shivering
  • Tooth pain
  • Lower jaw toothache
  • Cramps in the back
  • Back stiffness
  • Glaucoma
  • Pain in the subclavicular fossa
  • Sore throat
  • Acute conjunctivitis
  • Numb finger
  • Cerebral hemorrhage
  • Emergency care
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Shock
  • Atrophy of the optic nerve
  • Glaucoma
  • Night blindness
  • Achromatopsia (complete absence of color vision)
  • Vomiting and diarrhea
  • Rheumatic pains of the shoulder and upper arm
  • Swelling of the arm
  • Swelling of the four limbs
  • Pain in the back and shoulders
  • Pain in the shoulder girdle
  • Loss of consciousness from Windstroke
  • Qi fullness of the chest radiating to the lateral costal region
  • Dyspnea
  • Hot malaria
  • Patient gets very cold
  • Can't or won't communicate
  • Blurred vision
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhea
  • Nasal congestion
  • Mental disorders
  • Shoulder, arm and neck problems
  • Frozen joints
  • Patient very stubborn or withdrawn
  • All breathing disorders
  • Difficult digestion
  • Acute stage of Windstroke
  • Bi syndrome of the shoulder
  • Apoplectic coma
  • High fever
  • Swelling of the submandibular region
  • Swelling of the chin
  • Pain and swelling of the maxilla
  • Parotitis (mumps)
  • Diseases due to Cold with fever and delirium
  • Malaria
  • Tinnitus
  • Facial acne
  • Eye dizziness
  • Eye pain
  • Facial neuralgia due to disorders of the muscle channels
  • Fullness of the chest
  • Oppression
  • Throat Bi
  • Pain of the lower cheek
  • Submandibular swelling
  • Pain of the shoulder and back that radiates to the supraclavicular fossa
  • Numbness and Heat of the fingers
  • Asthma
  • Tonsillitis

COMBINATIONS:

LI-4
Hegu
LI-5
Yangxi
GB-43
Xiaxi
ST-45
Lidui
PC-8
Laogong
SI-4
Wangu

KI-3
Taixi

LI-3
Sanjian
SJ-3
Zhongzhu
KI-19
Yindu
HT-3
Shaohai

Febrile disease with absence of sweating

Cold malaria

Malaria with generalized fever

SJ-3
Zhongzhu
GB-40
Qiuxu

LI-6
Zhongzhu
UB-8
Luoque
SI-4
Wangu
SI-2
Qiangu

SJ-3
Zhongzhu
SJ-5
Waiguan
 SJ-22
Erheliao
GB-2
Tinghui
SI-19
Tinggong
LI-4
Hegu
PC-9
Zhongchong

Chronic malaria

Tinnitus

Deafness

UB-19
Danshu
UB-27
Xiaochangshu

KI-3
Taixi
GB-41
Zulinqi

 

Dry mouth and tongue with difficult ingestion

Swelling of the supraclavicular fossa

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • Use moxibustion with caution.

NOTES:

  • This is considered as a "dental point".
  • this point helps to break through to a stubborn, rigid, masked patient and is good for the mental side of Large Intestine problems.
  • This point is effective in Excess patterns to remove obstructions quickly.