Acupoint+GV-4+(Ming+Men)

 **Ming Men** **• ** **Governing Vessel** **4** **• **  Life Gate. Reunion point on Curious Meridian Dai Mo. = = =Location= Below the spinous process of the 2nd lumbar vertebrae.

=Point Summary= //Clears Heat Regulates the Governing Vessel Tonifies the Kidneys// //Benefits The Lumbar Spine// increases KD fire; problems with deficient KD yang; bring yang back to source; cold; developmental problems; hotter than BL-23

=Needling=

Depth:
0.5 - 1.0 cun; Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
None

Other Names:
Shu Lei: "Lineage Connection"

=General Indications=

Special Notes
very important and very strong, no point nourishes kidney fire like GV-4, burning moxa will warm the abdomen, similar to CV-4 in many ways, need a kidney deficiency to use this point (except for a kidney yin deficiency) - Combos: for male sexual problems

Point of Weihe: Selenium. All exhaustion; sexual fatigue; debility of convalescence or old people; without hope or desire; extreme sadness; all work tires; bad sleep towards midnight and awakens early. Aging; aging of the genitourinary system. Selenium is a constituent of the bone and teeth. Hoarsness, particularly of singers; falling of the head hair from fat, and of the body hair; eruptions of the liver area; prostatitis; sexual atony.

=Diagnostic Indications:= Abdominal Pain ** • ** Anal Prolapse ** • ** Bone Disorders ** • ** 5am Diarrhea ** • ** Headache ** • ** Headache Splitting **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Impotence **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Intestinal Disorders **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Leukorrhea **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** Endometriosis **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lumbar Pain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lumbar Sprain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Menses Irregular **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sciatica **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seminal Emissions **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spinal Pain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** Spinal Myelitis **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uterine Bleeding Abnormal **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** Nephritis **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• ** Sequela of infantile paralysis **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">• **

=Deadman Indications= -Heat in the body like fire, absence of sweating, steaming bones, heat of the five zang, malaria with alternating fever and chills -Shaking of the head with open mouth, tinnitus, dizziness, opisthotonos, splitting headache, childhood epilepsy, fear and fright -Seminal emission, white turbidity, red and white leukorrhea, shan disorder -Prolapse of the rectum, hemorrhoids, blood in the stool -Stiffness of the lumbar spine, pain of the lumbar spine radiating to the abdomen, Kidney deficiency lumbar pain, all types of lumbar pain due to deficiency, spinal rigidity with inability to flex and extend the back, cold painful obstruction of the hands and feet

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies the governor vessel, sexual organs, cerebellum, inferior occipital lobes, eyes, kidney, lower leg same side, upper leg opposite. Disperses the bladder Dispersing acts in the opposite way. All of the crossing points go from below upwards to the opposite side trough this point. Lassitude, evolved man [hun] tired: moxa. Children: head shaking, body flexed backwards (Little's disease?): moxa; or meningitis, eclampsia, tetanus; epilepsy? Fever of the internal organs: body burning without sweat; head as if broken. Intestines: intestinal tuberculosis, intestinal hemorrhages, spasms and pain of the intestines, rectal prolapse, hemorrhoids. Genital organs, particularly men: non-erection, testicles, seminal discharge. Kidney: weakened, frequent needs, ets up many times at night. Insufficient kidneys in old people. From insufficiency f the kidney, acute pain in the lumbar area, abdomen and lower limb, particularly when urinating. Crossed coordination: lower limb same side and upper limb opposite. Lumbar area and buttock: pain or weakness of the gluteal muscles, piriformis, caput lateralis and medialis, crural neuralgia. (Kuatsu) Massage or small repeated shocks revive drowned people; recovers from shock to the heart or brain.
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=Porkert Indications= Stabilizing the hepatic orb, augmenting the xue, strengthening the renal orb; thus dispelling ventus and directing the Qi downward Intense, unbearable headache, high fever, the patient seems to be on fire; no perspiration; also fever with shuddering or periodic fever; fever due to a depletion of the renal orb; episthotonus; Pediatric symptoms such as epilepsy, shaking head, open mouth, pavor with convulsions; Tinnitus, pain in the loins and the abdomen; tensness of the muscles of the back; bloody discharge or fluor albus on women; prolonged diarrhea, rumbling noise in the the intestines, loss of semen, turgid or milky urine; chronic hemorrhoids.
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=James Tin Yau So Indications= Weakness of the kidneys with lumbar ache; spermatorrhea; dizziness of the eyes; tinnitus; seveer headache; very high temperature; dizziness of the head; skin dry with no perspiration; epilepsy in children; meningitis; convulsions; cramping; red or white vaginal discharge; menorrhagia; malaria; pain in the intestines; hemorrhoids and bleeding of the rectum; diarrhea; incontinence of urine; the pupil of the eye suddenly cannot see (use moxa on this point and needle on BL-18)