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POINT: SI-5 (SMALL INTESTINE-5)

NAME: YANGGU

English: Yang Valley
Also Known As: Valley of Yang

LOCATION:

  • In the depression at the ulnar end of the transverse crease, on the dorsum of the wrist, between the styloid process of the ulna and the triquetral bone.
  • At the ulnar border of the wrist, in the depression between the head of the ulna and the triquetral bone.

NEEDLING:

  • Straight or slanted insertion 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Perpendicular insertion 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Jing-River point
  • Fire point
  • Horary point

ACTIONS:

  • Clears Heat
  • Reduces swelling
  • Calms the Shen
  • Clears the mind
  • Clears the channel
  • Expels Exterior Damp-Heat

INDICATIONS:

  • Wrist pain
  • Parotitis (Mumps)
  • Fever
  • Insanity
  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Mania
  • Mad walking
  • Clonic spasm
  • Pain of the chest or lateral costal region, with difficulty breathing
  • Febrile disease with anhidrosis
  • Chills and fever
  • Scabies
  • Convulsions
  • Delirium
  • Tongue stiffness
  • Fright
  • Fainting
  • Facial neuralgia
  • Intercostal neuralgia
  • Excessive talking
  • Varicose veins
  • Swelling of the neck and submandibular region
  • Lockjaw
  • Stiffness of the tongue in babies preventing suckling
  • Tongue thrusting
  • Toothache in both the upper and lower jaws
  • Visual dizziness
  • Redness, swelling and pain of the eye
  • Hand pain
  • Arm pain
  • Shoulder pain with inability to dress oneself
  • Painful hemorrhoids
  • Depression
  • Incoherent speech
  • Dyspnea
  • Gingivitis
  • Bell's Palsy
  • Excessive laughter
  • Flies into a rage
  • Stuttering or stammering

COMBINATIONS:

GB-17
Zhengying

SJ-2
Yemen
LI-1
Shangyang
LI-2
Erjian
SJ-9
Sidu

GB-43
Xiaxi

Toothache of the upper jaw

Toothache of the lower jaw

Swelling of the submandibular region with lockjaw

ST-7
Xiaguan
SJ-1
Guanchong
SJ-2
Yemen
LI-5
Yangxi

UB-58
Feiyang

HT-7
Shenmen

Tinnitus and deafness

Dizziness

Eye pain

Manic laughter

KI-9
Zhubin
DU-19
Houding
DU-18
Qiangjian
DU-17
Naohu
UB-8
Luoque
UB-9
Yuzhen

DU-16
Fengfu

LI-11
Quchi
SJ-1
Guanchong
LI-10
Shousanli
SJ-3
Zhongzhu
LU-5
Chize

Madness with vomiting

Mad walking

Pain of the elbow, maybe cold

SJ-11
Qinglengyuan

UB-56
Chengjin
UB-36
Chengfu
UB-40
Weizhong

 

Inability to raise the shoulder and put on clothes

Hemorrhoids

Swelling of the axilla

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This point is very useful for its mental effect of clearing the mind and determining the correct path to choose.
  • It can eliminate Dampness from the knees when they are hot.
  • This point is good fir Yang vitality.