POINT: LI-11 (LARGE INTESTINE-11)
| English: | Crooked Pond |
| Also Known As: | Pool at the Crook Corner Pond Crooked Pool Guitui (Ghost Leg) |
- When the elbow is flexed, the point is in the depression at the lateral end of the transverse cubital crease midway between LU-5 Chize and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus.
- Puncture perpendicularly 1 to 1.5 c.un.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
- Join to HT-3 Shaohai, if desired (2-2.5 cun). Sensation: local distention and soreness, sometimes an electric numb sensation extending to the shoulder or fingers.
- Oblique insertion towards the hand 1.5 to 2.5 cun. If after obtaining Qi, the needle is twirled rapidly, the sensation can be perceived along the forearm to the shoulder.
- Angled toward the elbow joint 0.5 to 1 cun, foe paralysis of the upper limb. Sensation: numb, electric sensation extending to the fingertips.
- He-Sea Point of the LI channel
- Earth point of the LI channel
- Tonification point
- Reinforcing point of the Large Intestine channel
- Upper Meeting point
- Mental precision point
- Antispasmodic point
- Ma Dan-Yang Heavenly Star point
- Ghost point
- Alleviates Exterior conditions
- Dispels Wind, Wind-Heat and Wind-Dryness
- Alleviates Dampness
- Alleviates itching
- Reduces fever
- Clears Fire
- Clears Heat
- Clears Summerheat
- Cools Blood Heat
- Moistens Dryness
- Stimulates sweating
- Transforms Damp-Heat
- Transforms Damp-Summerheat
- Invigorates the Blood
- Facilitates Qi and Blood flow
- Regulates and moistens the Large Intestines
- Regulates the Lungs (especially Lung Qi)
- Drains pathogenic influences from the Lungs
- Softens hard masses
- Benefits the shoulders
- Twelfth of thirteen Ghost Points for the treatment of psychosis and epilepsy
- Removes obstruction from the joints
- General tonifying effect
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HT-9 |
ST-36 |
SP-6 |
Fever |
Stimulates digestion and general metabolism Hypertension |
Diseases of the uterus General inflammation |
Measles |
Hypertension |
High fever |
Toothache |
Soreness and pain in the hand and arm Hemiplegia following Windstroke Clonic spasm of the upper limb |
Hematemesis |
GB-39 |
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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura |
Injury by cold with great Heat that does not recede (reducing method) |
Manic raving, fear and fright |
Malaria with much Cold and little Heat |
Malaria with much Heat and little Cold |
Toothache with aversion to cold |
GB-34 |
GB-34 |
LI-4 |
Hemiplegia |
Hemiplegia |
Diseases of the head, face, ears, eyes, mouth and nose |
LI-15 |
SJ-1 |
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Windstroke with one-sided withering and incessant pain |
Contraction of the arm with tightness of the sinews of both hands |
Pain in the elbow, maybe Cold |
SJ-15 |
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Pain and Cold of the arm |
Atrophy disorder Numbness of the arm |
Pain and heaviness of the shoulder with inability to raise the arm |
LU-5 |
GB-21 |
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Hypertension |
Contraction of the elbow with pain |
Pain of the forearm |
Pain of the forearm |
Hypertension |
Bacillary dysentery |
- This is the best point for chronic constipation.
- This point treats internal devils.
- It is excellent for providing stability in epilepsy, depression and insanity.
- This point brings stability to the Large Intestine and is especially good for alternating diarrhea and constipation.
- This point clears out accumulated mental rubbish causing a person's thinking to be muddled.
- This is an antibiotic point. It can be used before surgeries to decrease the likelihood of post-op infection.
- Although this point does have some actions on the Large Intestine, for disorders of the Large Intestine, the lower he-Sea point of the Large Intestine, ST-37 Shangjuxu is preferred.
- this point is often in Liver Fire patterns with hypertension.