Acupoint+SI-5+(Yang+Gu)

[[image:si5.jpg align="right"]]**Yang Gu** • **Small Intestine 5** **•6.5.111**
//Wrist Bone.// Jing River Point. Fire Point on Fire Meridian; Horary Point. = = = = =Location=  On the ulna side of the wrist, in a depression between the styloid process of the ulna and the triquetral and pisiform bones.

=Point Summary= //Clear Heat, Calms the Spirit, Reduces Swelling//

=Needling=

Depth:
0.3 - 0.5 cun.

Technique:
Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
N/A

=General Indications=

Functions
Local

Indications
Local

Special Notes
Local

=Diagnostic Indications:= Arm Pain ** • ** Deafness ** • ** Dizziness ** • ** Fever ** • ** Fever Without Sweating ** • ** Hand Pain ** • ** Jaw Disorders ** • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mental Disorders **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Neck Swelling **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parotitis **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seizures **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tinnitus **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Toothache **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wrist Pain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies opposite side of abdomen (small and large intestines), liver, spleen-pancreas, opposite brain; sexual organs, opposite lateral neck, external side of thumb and of the great toe, eyes, ears, knee and great toe in the same side. Disperses the kidney. Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Extravagant speech or laughter; escapades (walks blindly without direction); or head bent, looks to right and left; giddiness, vertigo, fainting. Scarlet eyes, inflamed from pain or wind. Ears: buzzing? deafness?Mouths: chews the cheeks; inflammation; babies cannot suck; gums: inflammation. Teeth: upper opposite caries and pain. Painful hemorrhoids. Impotence? Lower opposite jaws and chin: inflammation of the tissues; pain on the chin; lateral neck opposite. Hand: external side of thumb. Forearm: flexor and pronator muscles (cubital nerves). Wirst: cubital. Knee: great toe, same side.
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=Psycho-Spiritual Components= Stimulates and shakes up the fire and gets rid of the ashes so that the small intestine can sort effectively. Yang Vitality. Where the fire draws on the ire which is it's store of energies. Clarifies the heart of the fire, building up the spiritual flame. Adjusts the fire to burn appropriately. Good to moxa if the patient craves warmth. Good if the patient is weak, dispirited, despairing, or unable to cope. As a horary point, it is less crucial to use during horary time. **Instability in the emotions, mind out of control, stuttering, stammering, excessive talking, flies into a rage**. Fire raging out of control... Fire coered with dead ashes, suppression of fire, no room to breath, dizziness, fainting, dyspnea, intercostal neuralgia. [JRW]

Puts the laboratory back in order when both the heart and mind are in trouble. **Strongly affects the powers of discrimination**. When there is instability in the mind and body, when the mind is out of control, when feeling of being under attack, and unable to grasp the possibilities and opportunities present in life. Yang tends to excess conditions, which manifest with the small intestine as emotional agitation, exces heat. Yang valley is a **place for controlling the heat, directing it, nourishing the spirit.** When fire is raging out of control: delirium, rage. When illness disturbs the fire element: febrile diseases, **fear and agitation in children, mania and depression, restlessness and anxiety, moving blindly without direction, paranoia, giddiness, excessive or inappropriate laughing, loquacity,** etc. As the fifth point on the channel, there is an association to the heart, regeneration, the pentagon, and the dodecahedron (12 pentagons enclose three-dimensional space as a dodecahedron). [ALHIM]