Clinical Usages

• Harmonize the triple warmer
• Treats damp heat conditions effecting the lower warmer
• disperse for difficult urination, tonify for urinary incontinence.
• Frees the UB channel - lumbar pain, lower intestinal distention
• Manage hemorrhoids
• Swellings in the axillary region
• Local point for knee issues

Associations Lower He Sea Point of the TH

Note: This point is sometimes more effective than UB40 - specially in weakness of lumbar & pelvic floor muscles

English Name: Great Tower Gate

Clinical Usages

• Any Shen or Heart issue arising from an Excess or a Deficiency.
• Front Mu Point of the HT - angina, pain/tightness in the Heart area.
• Nausea, reflux, acid regurgitation, vomiting, abdominal a/or epigastric pain.
• Shen disturbances arising from Phlegm "misting the mind" - manic depression, muddled thinking, anger outbursts, poor memory, anxiety, palpitations, panic attacks, epilepsy.
• Descends lung qi - cough, asthma.
• Swellings in the axillary region
• Local point for knee issues

*NOTE *
This point is important for all individuals above 50 years ... it boosts cardio-pulmonary immunity and prevents complications A good idea to massage this point DAILY

English Name: Extending Vessel

Clinical Usages

• Spine Pain & stiffness With SI 3 for low back pain, difficulty walking
• wind-cold effecting the taiyang channels: stiff neck a/or shoulders, occipital headache, etc.
• Insomnia, nervousness (especially late at night), combine with KD 6.n.

UB 62 Associations
Yang Qiao Master Point (coupled with SI 3 Du Mai Master Point)

English Name: Shang Hill

Clinical Usages
Tonifies the spleen and resolves dampness - lethargy, desire to lie down, abdominal distention.
Calms the spirit - manic depression, anxiety, excessive thinking.
Speech disorders, stiffness at root of tongue.

SP 5 Point Associations
Jing River Point
Metal Point

Sp5 balance the following Patterns:
Spleen Qi Deficiency