Acupoint+SI-6+(Yang+Lou)

**Yang Lao** • **Small Intestine 6** **•6.6.112** //Nursing the Aged, Cultivating the Sage// Xi Cleft Point. = = =Location= Dorsal to the head of the ulna. When the palm faces the chest, the point is in the bony cleft on the radial side of the styloid process of the ulna.

=Point Summary= //Activates The Channel, Benefits the Shoulder and the Arm, Moderates Acute Conditions, Benefits the Eyes, Alleviates Pain// xi cleft; pain in the meridian; stiff neck' secondarily low back

=Needling=

Depth:
0.3 - 0.5 cun

Technique:
Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
None

=General Indications=

Functions
relaxes the sinews and muscles and clears the channels for the SI channel

Indications
pain in shoulder and back; arthritis; main point for acute low back sprains; used a lot for whiplash

Special Notes
xi cleft point; controversy about whether this should be used for low back pain - many people say SI-3 is better; everything you use this for musculo-skeletally you could use SI-3 instead

=Diagnostic Indications:= Arm Pain **•** Arthritis Shoulder **•** Back Pain **•** Elbow Problems **•** Eye Disorders **•** Hemiplegia **•** Lumbar Mobility Decreased **•** Lumbar Pain **•** Neck Stiffness **•** Shoulder Pain **•** Visual Disturbances **•**

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies opposite small intestines and large intestine, opposite eye, eyelid, opposite ear, opposite inferior occipital lobe, upper limb, cubital nerve; opposite joint of the lower limb. Disperses liver, kidney. Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Opposite eye: vision easily tired, vision darkened; congestion of the eyeball; opposite eyelids, inflammation; opposite ear Opposite kidney (reabsorption and excretion), reabsorption in excess: tonify; too relaxed: disperse. Upper limb: cubital and posterior internal side, cubital nerve; pain, contracture or flaccidity; hand cannot be lifted up, flexed; contracture or flaccidity; flexors, pronators; acts on the extensor carpi ulnaris muscles; thumb, same side. Articulations of the opposite lower limb, great toe same side.
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=Psycho-Spiritual Components= One of the best **points to nourish the body, mind, and spirit**. Especially good with older patients who don’t seem like they’re getting nourishment. **Brings in purity from a spirit level, easing small intestine-type cynicism. Useful for the person who wells on the past, old problems, illnesses, or difficult times.** They may not want to cope with the present, may have mental despair, depression, suicidal tendencies. Use this point to ask for help from the small intestine to **nourish the person with long standing problems**. Someone may be immature about coping, in a rut, and never able to solve problems. Perhaps a difficulty that someone cannot sort out – a problem they have had since childhood. Age is a condition of the body/mind – not calendar years. **Follow with the wood point so the person can see they don’t need his block and that they can get rid of it and start to grow again**. As an accumulation point, this cleanses and strengthens the small intestine especially for chronic physical problems, such as toxicity and digestive difficulties. Continual battle against disease can bring complete lethargy, paralysis of the limbs, “I feel as if my arms are breaking, ” diminished vitality. Also for long term muddle and confusion [JRW]

As the xi-cleft point, Yang Luo excels at clearing stagnation from the small intestine official. This point may be thought of as aiding the small intestine to clear off the accretions of habituating influence that have smothered the fires of the heart and ming men. This is **equivalent to re-invigorating the alchemist’s fire** so that it may burn off the ashes that have smothered it. By assisting the small intestine to **sort out the old and assimilate the new, bitterness and pain remaining from past experiences may be integrated and released,** the stagnation that results from the small intestine’s imbalance may lead to lethargy and ultimately paralysis of the arms and legs, rendering one literally unable to sort things out. After receiving this point in treatment, patients **may report dreaming about people and places that they had long ago forgotten**. Further, one may experience memories or sensations such as smells that remind them of past places and people. [LJ]

To die at the right time, and die consciously means to live each moment fully and without attachment. Age can be a source of wisdom or a condition of decrepitude. The greatest enemies on the path of self perfection are doubt and self-pity. The child in their innocence and the sage in their wisdom are the same in respect to the way they live a natural relationship with the universe. Through the cultivation of consciousness, the sage achieves insight and understanding of the true nature of the evolving universe. **When we are unwilling or unable to make the efforts required, we begin to accumulate a burden of unresolved experience – this more than anything else causes one to grow old**. “Those who know others are intelligent; those who know themselves are enlightened. Those who overcome others have force, those who master themselves have integrity. Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their center endure. Those who die and yet do not perish, live on” Dao De Jing Chapter 33 [ALHIM]