Acupoint+LU-1+(Zhong+Fu)

** LU1 ** ** • **  **Zhong Fu**  •  **Lung** **1**  Central Treasury, Middle Palace, Gathering Point Celestial Window, Entry Point Front Mu Point of the Lung that connects with Back Shu BL-13. Meeting Point on the Lung Channel with the Spleen Channel.

=Location= The point is lateral and superior to the sternum at the lateral side of the 1st intercostal space, 6 cun lateral to the ren mai channel.

=Point Summary= //Disseminates And Descends Lung Qi Transforms Phlegm Descends Stomach Qi Clears Heat Opens and Regulates the Water Passages// //Alleviates Cough And Wheezing// mu point; fullness for chest; more dispersive; cough with phlegm

=Needling=

Depth:[[image:LU1_pic.jpg width="282" height="246" align="right"]]
0.5 - 0.8 cun

Technique:
Puncture obliquely towards the lateral aspect of the chest.

Contraindications:
No deep needling.

=General Indications=

Functions
disperses heat in the chest with heat and phlegm; more dispersing point rather than tonifying

Indications
dry cough; cough with fullness in chest; lung heat; pulmonary TB (severe yin deficiency); coughing and wheezing with blood

Special Notes
LU and SP cross here; with CV-17 and PC-6 to open up the chest

=Diagnostic Treatment= Asthma (moxa only)** • ** Back Pain ** • ** Chest Discomfort ** • ** Chest Pain ** • ** Cough ** • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dyspnea **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nasal Congestion **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Neck Nodular Growths **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Respiratory Disorders **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shoulder Pain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wheezing **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> -Acute Bronchitis

For organ disorders, usually excess: cough, asthma (with phlegm, cup at BL-13), chest pain. BL-13 is preferred for deficiency (Qi xu non-attack time asthma). Every type of Lung disorder, fullness of the chest, stuttering, insomnia, mental disorders. Pneumonia, whooping cough or tonsillitis, cough due to accumulation of phlegm. Full, painful chest, Lungs tight; difficult respiration. Stagnation of Qi, retention of phlegm, dyspnea. Shoulder and upper back pain due to stagnation of Qi. Sore throat, dry cough, spasms and cough; thick mucus, nasal congestion. Fever, excessive sweating, bronchitis with cough and wheezing; pulmonary infections, lung abscesses, tuberculosis. Face swollen, skin painful, warm, red cheeks, rosacea, congested capillaries. Eyes red, painful, swollen, conjunctivitis. Skin tumors. Dispersing helps release unresolved emotions. [ALHIM]

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Disperses the Bladder Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Here the energy coming form the Liver (LR-14) by a direct branch enters the meridian of the Lungs Herald point of the Lungs (respiratory passages)(troubles w/ cold or depression). Painful in troubles of the posterior side of the Lungs. It awakens around 3:00am (the Lungs not being nourished by energy coming from insufficient Liver); spasms of the voice muscles; stuttering cough; thick or liquid mucus; tonsillitis. Full, painful chest, lungs contracted; without respiration, cannot sleep; asthma, emphysema, pulmonary tuberculosis; pulmonary infections. Eyes: red, painful eyelids swollen, conjunctivitis Heart: troubles - recurrent fever. Vomiting crisis from Gallbladder excess (food & drinks do not go down), swollen abdomen Bladder: irritation or urine w/ fetid odor; excess uric acid, tonify Parts of the body:** Hair, skin of the cranium (scalp), all troubles opposite. Red cheeks, warm; congested capillaries; acne, rosacea, opposite Face swollen, skin painful, opposite Wrist & back of the hand swollen. Inferior & superior limbs swollen, opposite. //Right:// Benzoic acid. Red stains on the face, acne rosacea. Wrist swollen; swelling around the ears; ulcerated tongue, beating of the temporal arteries; asthma increased in the evening; Heart pain, Kidney pain; Urine: changing colors, repulsive odor, incontinence, excessive uric acid //Left:// Euphrasia, Influenza, whooping cough during the day; hay fever; inflamed eyelids, red & hot cheeks; eyes tear w/out stopping; mucus lining of the nose inflamed; conjunctivitis; constipation or dysentery; Bladder: irritation at night; prostatitis; short menses with ophthalmia; beginning of measles; eye inflamed
 * When tonified**: tonifies the respiratory passages, Heart, Spleen-Pancreas, Temporal-parietal lobe, medulla, automatic parrot, inferior spinal cord, three endocrines, Liver
 * Direct Effects:**
 * Opposite effects:**
 * Lymph nodes: Tumors (superlative adenitis)
 * Point of Wei he**:

=Psycho-Spiritual Components= -Goes right into opening the spirit. One enters trough the middle palace into the inner palace where god resides. It contains his essence. Brings security and inspiration, restoring connection with god and nature. For patients who are out of touch with the breath of heaven, where there is no quality or essence. When a person is **overcome with grief this point helps them move through the tears. Goes directly to the source of grief.** A really special point, the "receiver of Qi". If it's not there the Lungs couldn't function. The whole thing is about the light, the heavens coming in. The richness and joy of the palace should be felt every time we breathe in. The spirit bathes every breath with the quality of being able to take in. Good for **metal CF's who are stuck, rejecting respect or praise**. Returning to the center and a vision of the riches and quality [JRW]

-Draws energy from LR-14 to LU-1. This flow provides a connection between the eyes, turned upward toward heaven with optimism and great vision, and the inspiration of a spiritual connection with heaven. A treasure in the center of the chest is the Zhong Qi, which empowers the synchronicity of all rhythmic movements in the organism. A child often responds to early trauma and/or disappointments in life by shutting off his or her heart and suppressing their Lung rhythm. **Depletion here is suggested by the presence of a caved-in chest and shoulders that are hunched forward**. Characteristic of this imbalance is frustration giving way to despair as the Liver Qi stagnates. Often one evidences an **internal emptiness and loneliness as the Lungs have failed to bring quality into one's internal landscape**, or to make contact with one's inner worth (the "central treasure") **Indicated for loneliness, feeling separated, grief stuck in the chest**. Cottony pulse indicates a separation of Heart and Liver. [LJ]

The zhongqi as actual "ancestral" qi empowers the synchronicity of all rhythmic movements within us and joins us in breath of both our personal lineage of ancestory as well as the creative breath of eternal dao as the momentary cause of our being. Our personal ancestory includes what we bring to each moment from our past, whereas our connection to dao is a momentary phenomenon that spontaneously gives birth to us newly with each breath and heartbeat. Our source of inspiration then comes from the joining the highest we posses from our past (our ancestory) with the highest available to us in each instant. Hence it is through breath that our past inspires our present... Treating LU-1 may be likened to taking someone up to the top of a mountain where the air is clear and the finest most refined Qi is availablle to inspire him. For here we are closest to the sun, embodied in the upper jiao as the human heart. [LJ-CM]
 * Virtue: Empowers inspiration and connection to essence**

-Temple in Man. About **inspiration, participation in the cosmos as a living being**; the exchange of substances in the air establishes our presence in the web of organic life Regulates Lung Qi and stops cough.; stimulates the descending of Lung Qi and stops asthma; disperses fullness from the chest and stops pain. Expands and relaxes the chest nourishes Lung Yin. [ALHIM]