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Alternate names: 绝阳 jué yáng, Yang Extremity

Channel: LI, hand yáng brightness (yáng míng) large intestine channel

Modern location: An acupoint located a little more than 1 fēn below the base of the nail on the radial side of the index finger.

Classical location: On the inside of the index finger, the width of a garlic chive leaf from the corner of the nail. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The arterial and venous network formed by the dorsal and digital arteries and veins. The palmar digital proprial nerve derived from the median nerve.

Action: Resolves the exterior and abates heat; clears the lung and disinhibits the throat; courses and discharges yáng brightness (yáng míng) evil heat; opens the orifices and revives the spirit.

Modern indications: Deafness; toothache; painful swollen throat; clear-eye blindness; swelling of the submandibular region; numbness and tingling of the fingers; febrile disease; clouding reversal (loss of consciousness).

Classical indications: Febrile disease with sweating; blindness; deafness and tinnitus; throat impediment (hóu bì) preventing speech; shoulder and back pain reaching into the clavicle; cold and heat malaria; qì fullness in the chest.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.1 cùn upward oblique insertion; bleed as for LU-11 (shào shāng). Moxa: 1‒3 cones; pole 5 min.

Point groups: Well (jǐng) (metal) point.

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