Baza wiedzyPunkty akupunkturowe
SI-3
Houxi
Back Stream
Inne nazwyBack Creek · Back Ravine · Creek at the Rear
- Kanał
- Jelito cienkie
- Klasyfikacja
- Shu-Strumień, Pięciu Przemian, Punkt zbiegu, Punkt sprzężony, Tonizujący, Punkt krzyżujący
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Lokalizacja
- 01On the hand's ulnar edge, in the pronounced hollow proximal to the fifth metacarpal head; locate it with the hand clenched into a fist.
- 02With the hand made into a fist, the point lies behind and to the side of the fifth metacarpal head, at the highest point of the crease the clenched fist forms.
- 03With a loosely closed fist, find it at the ulnar end of the distal palmar crease, proximal to the fifth metacarpophalangeal joint, where the crease ends at the red-white skin junction.
Nakłucie
- 01Needle perpendicularly, 0.5 to 2 cun deep, aiming toward LI-3 Sanjian; the hand should be loosely fisted with the metacarpal bones aligned in one plane.
- 02Puncture 0.5 to 0.7 cun deep.
- 03Moxibustion may be used.
Funkcje punktu
- Shu-Stream point of the Small Intestine channel
- Wood point of the Small Intestine channel
- Confluent (Master) point of the Governing vessel (DU channel)
- Coupled Point of the Yangqiao channel
- Tonification point
- Vitality point
- Reunion point of the SI, LI, ST, SJ, GB, LU, REN and DU channels
Działania
- Benefits occiput, neck and back
- Frees the channel
- Relieves pain
- Clears Wind-Heat
- Treats malaria
- Resolves jaundice
- Clears Fire, Heat and Summerheat
- Calms Shen
- Treats epilepsy
- Benefits the sensory orifices
- Regulates the Governing Vessel (DU channel)
- Removes Interior Wind from the Governing Vessel
- Benefits the sinews
- Benefits the joints
- Resolves Dampness
- Clears the mind
- Eases the Sinew channels
- Drains pathogenic factors from the Heart
- Regulates sweating
Wskazania
- Neck or upper-back stiffness and pain
- Trouble turning the neck
- Unilateral headache
- Headache on both sides
- Back pain
- Shoulder pain
- Pain in the elbow and arm
- Elbow contracture
- Finger contracture and pain
- Pain across all the fingers
- Lumbar and knee pain
- Hemiplegia
- Malaria
- Night sweats
- Shivering with cold
- Fever with chills
- Febrile illness without sweating
- Aching along the spine and back
- Psychosis
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Red, painful eyes
- Red eyes with a filmy veil over vision
- Eye congestion
- Calm-type madness
- Dermatosis
- Markedly poor digestion
- Forearm pain
- Severe depression
- Sore throat
- Scabies
- Dizziness
- Conjunctivitis
- Muscle tetany
- Whiplash
- Neck spasm
- Hypertension
- Neuralgia between the ribs
- Chest fullness
- Common cold
- Plague
- Cold abscess
- Febrile disease with no sweating
- Vertigo
- Fullness in the chest region
- Jaundice
- Dark urine with hesitancy
- Epilepsy
- Manic depression
- Disorders of the Governing Vessel
- Deafness
- Tinnitus
- Superficial visual obstruction
- Eye redness and pain
- Eye swelling with tearing
- Nosebleed
- Toothache
- Throat and cheek swelling
- Both cheeks red, swollen and painful
- Voice loss after a Windstroke
- Seizures
- Hysteria
- Deaf-mutism
- Conjunctival problems
- Tidal fever
- Intense fearfulness
- Greasy stool
- Delayed recovery following shock or surgery
- Multiple sclerosis
- Paralysis
- Dry mouth
- Bi syndrome with generalized aching
- Occipital headache
- Neck and head pain
- Neck rigidity
- Keratitis
- Manic psychosis
- Depressive psychosis
- A film over the eye
- Neuralgia of the lower limb
- Tremor of the hand
- Itchy skin conditions
Połączenia
For severe night sweating
Clears both Exterior and Interior Heat from the Small Intestine channel as it reaches the head, particularly the ears and eyes, benefiting the sensory orifices
- SJ-16
For neck stiffness with an inability to turn the head
For headache
For head and eye pain
For forearm pain
For elbow contracture
For shoulder and back pain
For malaria with predominant Heat and slight Cold
For the five types of epilepsy
For epilepsy
For epileptic convulsions, aimless wandering, insomnia and Heart agitation
For mania with an urge to climb to high places and sing, tearing off clothes and running about
- PC-5
- LI-4
For sudden-onset mania
For deafness
For nosebleed with labored breathing
For jaundice
Frees the Governing Vessel and can influence the entire spine in both acute and chronic conditions (not for one-sided pain); tonifies the Kidneys (mainly in men) and promotes release of ACTH and sex hormones
For chronic lower-back pain in women
For tertian malaria
For lower-back spasm
For leg pain
For tidal fever with chills predominating over heat
- LI-4
Paired with SI-3 for finger spasm
Uwagi
- This point has a notable effect on the spine overall, and is commonly used for pain in the upper spine, scapula and lumbar region.
- It can be needled deeply toward LI-3 when all four fingers are involved.
- It is a valuable point for expelling febrile disease.
- It works best in acute cases rather than chronic ones.
- Use reinforcing technique to induce sweating during fever.
- Use reducing technique to stop night sweats.
- It serves as a first-aid point for convulsions, particularly intestinal spasm with loss of consciousness.
- For regulating sweating: reduce to stop sweating, reinforce to induce it.