People find it interesting that each acupuncture point has several indications. Treatment plans work like a recipe, depending on what ingredients or points are paired with, this dictates what role it plays in the dish or in this case, the treatment.
For example, Large Intestine 4 is wonderful for many different issues. Our of all the 300 plus points, it is one of the most common points we needle. If paired with Stomach points, we can balance any digestion issue. If paired with Kidney points, we can dictate it’s role to allow the body to let go emotionally. Paired with a particular point on the Gall Bladder channel on the top of the shoulder, we can facilitate labor and delivery! There are so many options and directions we can take the body.
Here’s the more specific indications from a Chinese medicine perspective:
Traditional Chinese medicine actions:
Activates defensive qi and adjusts sweating
Expels wind and releases the exterior
Regulates the face, eyes, nose, mouth and ears
Activates the channel and alleviates pain
Induces labour
Restores the yang
Traditional Chinese medicine indications:
Exterior wind-cold patterns, chills and fever, injury by cold with great thirst, copious sweating, absence of sweating, febrile disease with absence of sweating, floating pulse.
Headache, one-sided headache, headahce of the whole head, hypertension.
Redness, swelling and pain of the eyes, dimness of vision, superficial visual obstruction.
Nosebleed, nasal congestion and discharge, rhinitis, sneezing.
Toothache or pain of tooth decay in the lower jaw, mouth ulcers, lotus flower tongue, cracked tongue, rigid tongue, lips do not close, tightness of the lips.
Throat painful obstruction, childhood throat moth, mumps, loss of voice.
Swelling of the face, deviation of the face and mouth, lockjaw, deafness, tinnitus.
Amenorrhoea, prolonged labour, delayed labour, retention of dead foetus.
Dysenteric disorder, childhood nutritional impairment, childhood fright wind, wind rash, malaria, mania.
Painful obstruction and atrophy disorder of the four limbs, hemiplegia, pain of the sinews and bones, pain of the arm, contraction of the fingers, pain of the lumbar spine.
