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POINT: LI-7 (LARGE INTESTINE-7)

English: Warm Flow
Also Known As: Warm Current
Warm Slide
  • Located halfway between LI-5 Yangxi and LI-11 Quchi.
  • With the elbow flexed and the radial side of the arm upward, the point is on the line connecting LI-5 Yangxi and LI-11 Quchi, 5 cun above the crease of the wrist.
  • 5 cun above LI-5 Yangxi on the forearm.
  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Straight insertion, 1 to 1.5 cun.
  • Transverse-oblique insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Xi-Cleft (Accumulating) point
  • Gueki point
  • Clears Heat
  • Detoxifies poison
  • Stops pain
  • Expels Wind
  • Benefits the throat
  • Moderates acute conditions
  • Harmonizes and regulates the Intestines and Stomach
  • Clears Yang Ming Fire
  • Calms the Shen
  • Speech difficulties
  • Tongue thrusting
  • Continuous belching
  • Absolute despair
  • Ulcers of the hand and face
  • Ulcerated Large Intestine
  • Arthritis due to Cold
  • Sore throat
  • Mouth and tongue swelling, pain and inflammation
  • Glossitis
  • Swollen tonsils
  • Redness, swelling and pain of the face
  • Carbuncles
  • Furuncles
  • Borborygmus with abdominal pain
  • Frequent laughter
  • Raving
  • Seeing ghosts
  • Clove sores
  • Stomatitis
  • Abdominal pain and distention
  • Borborygmus
  • Belching
  • Epistaxis
  • Headache
  • Headache with fever
  • Facial edema
  • Swelling and heaviness of the extremities
  • Shoulder and arm ache
  • Parotitis
  • Facial paralysis
  • Deviation of the face and mouth
  • Pain of the teeth and mouth
  • Loss of voice
  • Vomiting of watery saliva and foam
  • Sudden swelling of the extremities
  • Pain and debility in raising the shoulder and arm

LI-11
Quchi

ST-24
Huaroumen
HT-3

Shaohai

LI-5
Yangxi
UB-61
Pucan

Throat Bi with loss of voice

Stiff tongue

Tongue thrusting

Manic raving

Seeing ghosts

LIV-14
Qimen

 

 

Stiffness of the nape of the neck due to Cold

 

 

  • Use lots of moxa to warm the Spirit.
  • Warms the whole person.