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POINT: M-UE-1  

NAME: SHIXUAN

English: Ten Diffusions
Also Known As: Ten Declarations
Ten Drainings
Ten Spreadings

LOCATION:

  • On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 cun from the fingernail.

NEEDLING:

  • Prick to bleed. This may be followed by moxibustion.
  • Puncture 0.1 to 0.2 cun superficially or prick to cause bleeding.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

ACTIONS:

  • Opens the Orifices
  • Revives consciousness
  • Drains Heat
  • Pacifies Wind

INDICATIONS:

  • Loss of consciousness
  • Windstroke
  • Summerheat stroke
  • Febrile disease
  • Swelling and pain of the throat
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Febrile convulsions
  • Heatstroke
  • Seizures
  • Shock
  • Paralysis and weakness of the hands
  • Coma
  • Fainting
  • Heat exhaustion
  • Throat moth
  • Acute childhood fright Wind
  • Clonic spasm
  • Epilepsy
  • Mania
  • Numbness or pain of the fingers
  • Insanity
  • Childhood convulsions
  • Closed-type coma
  • Sore throat
  • Numbness of the fingertips
  • Apoplexy
  • Acute tonsillitis
  • High fever
  • Hysteria

COMBINATIONS:

DU-14
Dazhui
M-HN-10
Erjian

Heat exhaustion due to high fever

 

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • These points are almost exclusively used for acute conditions.