Acupoint+SI-1+(Shao+Ze)

== **Shao Ze** **• **  **Small Intestine** **1** **• **  **6.1.107** //Smaller Marsh, Little Marsh, Young Marsh// Entry Point. Jing Well Point. Metal Point on Fire Meridian. =Location= On the ulnar side of the little finger, about .1 cun posterior to the corner of the nail.

=Point Summary= //Clears Heat, Promotes Lactation, Benefits the Breasts, Clears the Sense Organs, Revives Consciousness// mastitis; insufficient lactation; loss of consciousness; heat (jing well)

=Needling=

Depth:
0.1 cun

Technique:
Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
None

=General Indications=

Functions
disperses wind and heat; facilitates the flow of milk; opens orifices; clears heart heat

Indications
mastitis; insufficient lactations; sometimes for PMS breast tenderness; swollen breasts including benign breast lumps and fibrocystic lumps; as jing well point can be used for loss of consciousness

Special Notes
Local

=Diagnostic Indications:= Breast Swelling **•** Curled Tongue Edges **•** Dyspnea **•** Eye Disorders **•** Fever **•** Fever And Chills Without Sweating **•** Headache **•** Jaundice **•** Lactation Insufficient **•** Loss Of Consciousness **•** Mastitis **•** Nosebleed **•** Stiff Tongue **•** Throat Soreness **•**

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies (augments) urine, small intestine, large intestine when smooth, tonifies heart, bladder, upper opposite nape. Disperses kidneys, liver; diminishes all secretions - saliva, sweat, milk, etc. Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Secretions: tonifying increases urine and decreases secretions; dispersing does the contrary. Milk insufficient or not coming after delivery: disperse. Or too abundant, breasts swollen, painful: tonify. Saliva like paste, with warm and dry mouth: disperse; no sweat, dry skin from insufficiency of small intestine: tonify. Or from excess: disperse. Algid malaria without sweat: disperse. Abundant urine (and insufficient secretions): disperse; insufficient urine (and abundant secretions): tonify. Eyes: do not release fluids, stay swollen and hard;pterygium; cataract. Throat: pain, tonsillitis, laryngitis. Nose: incessant bleeding. Enlarged heart; cold pains, cold under the heart. Internal headaches; convulsions. Inferior chin: swelling. Opposite medial nape: all troubles. Little finger contracted or flaccid; anterior cubital edge of the forearm.
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=Psycho-Spiritual Components= Supportive, brings energy into the meridian. A marsh is an **area of fertility, value, and nourishment. Helps one to appreciate quality, bringing metal to the small intestine. Helps one to receive from heaven and eliminate the rubbish.** Cleanses and oxygenates the meridian, bringing air into fire. Best I autumn, allow fire to burn purely and allows the patient to **look at themselves clearly (who they are and where they are going) by removing and pruning.** Good for a small intestine CF who is severely depressed, suicidal, insecure, childish, sarcastic. Use when someone has **difficulty touching or is mentally frozen.** Also good for splits: when there is rubbish in one part of the body, when there is a **good mind with a poor spirit, when one is in their head but out of contact with their body**. Overall good for a non-specific quantity change. The jing well point brings energy into the meridian, opens the orifices, increases awareness. The job of the small intestine is to separate the pure from the impure, the pure is that which is needed to nourish the body and soul. When imbalanced impure food, drink, thought, might be retained, a toxic buildup of physical emotional poison. Helps the small intestine and large intestine o purify and eliminate, promotes the elimination of wastes. This is a fire meridian, all life is dependent on the warmth of fire, love, friendship, and affection. For a farmer a marsh is fertile ground, valuable and nourishing – not wasteland. Excess metal energies can lead to cool and rigid types of imbalances: severe headaches, asthma, bronchitis, breathlessness, dry mouth. Metal also functions as Yin cooling aspect, the metal point can be used to control “raging fire energies.” When there is an excess of heat, metal can begin to melt; symptoms of cardiac pain, convulsions, diarrhea, tonsillitis, cough with lots of sputum. [JRW]

The small intestine is the organ of alchemy. The task of the small intestine is to separate the course (that which we ne to let go) from the fine (the purified essence of life). Opening the orifices and energizing ire to burn more brightly increases awareness and helps the function of the small intestine. The small intestine corresponds with the wisdom aspect of the heart, and it relies on the heart for direction. Small surge, HT-9, creates a little marsh full of love, friendship, affection, and passion which are vital for life and necessary for growth. This point may help **someone who is in their head to connect with their heart, to be more aware of their feelings**. As the sixth meridian, the small intestine is **responsible for transmutation, alchemical purification, and transformation**. Geometrically this is represented by the six-pointed star: “as above, so below.” The higher blends with the lower to actualize the middle. The intelligence of the heart, the small intestine, is capable of discriminating shades of meaning that the dialectical mind is not even aware of. This point **ignites the fires of transformation, allowing the patient to see themselves more clearly**. An imbalance in the small intestine means that on some level transformation is distorted or not happening. Helps one to know who they are and where they’re going, helping one to separate useful information for the less important or irrelevant. [ALHIM]