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POINT: SJ-2 (SAN JIAO-2) 

NAME: YEMEN

English: Fluid Gate
Also Known As: Fluid's Door
Fluid Secretion Gate
Door of Fluids

LOCATION:

  • Between the ring and little fingers, 0.5 cun proximal to the margin of the web.
    Note: this point is usually found and needled with the hand resting in a loose fist.
  • When the fist is clenched, the point is located in the depression proximal to the margin of the web between the ring and small fingers, at the junction of the red and white skin.

NEEDLING:

  • Perpendicular insertion, 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Puncture obliquely 0.3 to 0.5 cun towards the interspace of the metacarpal bones.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Ying-Spring point
  • Water point

ACTIONS:

  • Disperses Upper Jiao Heat
  • Benefits the ears
  • Calms the Shen
  • Activates the channel
  • Alleviates pain
  • Expels Wind

INDICATIONS:

  • Deafness
  • Sudden deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Earache
  • Headache
  • Red eyes
  • Red face with lachrymation
  • Dry eyes
  • Swelling and pain of the throat
  • Toothache
  • Bleeding gums
  • Pain of the gums
  • Febrile diseases
  • Vertigo
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Pain on both sides of the spine
  • Cold extremities
  • Otitis media
  • Laryngopharyngitis
  • Loss of consciousness with origin in Cold
  • Heat in the arm
  • Hissing in the ears
  • Sea noises in the ears
  • Swollen limbs
  • Laryngitis
  • Arthritis of the wrist joint
  • Hemiplegia
  • Pain, swelling of the dorsum of the hand and fingers
  • Fright
  • Palpitations
  • Raving
  • Mania
  • Propensity toward fright
  • Epilepsy
  • Shortness of breath
  • Malaria
  • Fever with absence of sweat
  • Pain of the arm
  • Inability to raise the arm due to pain
  • Redness and swelling of the dorsum of the hand
  • Contraction of the five fingers
  • Weakness of the wrist
  • Neck pain
  • Loss of voice
  • Paralysis of the hand and fingers
  • Anxiety
  • Delirium
  • Alternation fever and chills
  • Mind wandering with loss of stability
  • Water in the ears
  • Anemic headache
  • Inflammation of the eyes
  • Arm swollen and red up to the hand
  • Divagation
  • Fainting due to bad odors
  • Pharyngitis

COMBINATIONS:

SI-16
Tianchuang
LI-5
Yangxi
SJ-1
Guanchong
SJ-3
Zhongzhu

SJ-1
Guanchong
LI-5
Yangxi
ST-7
Xiaguan
SI-5
Yanggu

SJ-8
Sanyangluo

Ear pain, deafness and tinnitus

Tinnitus and deafness

Sudden deafness

LU-10
Yuji

SI-5
Yanggu
LI-1
Shangyang
LI-2
Erjian
SJ-9
Sidu

SJ-10
Tianjing
DU-20
Baihui
DU-11
Shendao

Throat pain

Toothache of the lower jaw

Fright palpitations

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This point has a pronounced action on the ear.
  • It is also widely used for Bi syndrome of the fingers.
  • This is a key point for all water metabolism problems.
  • This point controls all secretions.
  • This point has a special effect on fainting due to bad odors.