Acupoint+LI-8+(Xia+Lian)

== ** LI8 ** ** • **  **Xia Lian**  •  **Large Intestine** **8** Lower Ridge.

=Location= When the elbow is flexed with the radial side of the arm upward, the point is on the line joining LI-5 and LI-11, 4 cun below LI-11

=Point Summary= //Regulates Small Intestine Qi Expels Wind Clears Yangming Fire Calms the Spirit Clears Heat// Local Point

=Needling=

Depth:
0.5 - 1 cun

Technique:
Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
None

=General Indications=

Functions
Local

Indications
Local

Special Notes
Local

=Diagnostic Indications:= Abdominal Distention **•** Abdominal Pain **•** Arm And Elbow Pain **•** Diarrhea **•** Hematuria **•** Manic Raving **•**

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies the large intestine, opposite brain, opposite ear; dorsal and palmar muscles of hand and thumb; knee, opposite anterior leg. Disperses the opposite kidney, opposite lung. Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Extraordinary fits of hopelessness; hyperexcited speech; walks blindly without direction (escapades), congestion of heat to the point of apoplexy. Large intestine: the point is very sensitive in cases of diarrhea and even more in cases of intestinal tuberculosis, diarrhea after meals, noisy discharge and wind. Small intestine: insufficiency, face without complexion, bad digestion, (mostly carbohydrates, meat, fat), pain at navel, dry lips, flowing saliva. Asthma, cannot walk; inflammation of bronchioles; pleurisy; tuberculosis. Opposite breast, inflammation or abscess. Pelvic basin: spasms, fullness Urine with blood, flaccidity of bladder Rheumatism from cold, humidity, wind; rheumatism of skin. All joints of same side of upper limb. Tennis elbow: pain of forearm and elbow, particularly from pouring drinks or from holding a racquet, neuralgia of the radial and supinator muscles (of the musculocutaneus nerve); thumb, all anterior and posterior muscles Causes the hand to lift; back of the hand. Dorsal toes, lower limb, opposite anterior knee. Sacrum and opposite lumbar muscles.
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=Psycho-Spiritual Components= Headache, speech difficulties, breast **abscesses particularly with a discharge from nipple**, very yellow urine, chronic emacation. [JRW]