Acupoint+LI-9+(Shang+Lian)

== ** LI9 ** ** • **  **Shang Lian**  •  **Large Intestine** **9** Upper Ridge.

=Location= On the line joining LI-5 and LI-11, 3 cun below LI-11

=Point Summary= //Harmonizes The Large Intestine Activates the Channel Alleviates Pain// 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 Pain **•** Arm Numbness **•** Arm Pain **•** Bone Marrow With Coldness **•** Borborygmus **•** Hand Numbness **•** Hemiplagia **•** Large Intestine Qi Stagnation **•** Shoulder Pain **•**

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies the large intestine, opposite and central inferior lateral side of brain.Yang energy (heat, movement), Opposite spinal cord; strength of hand (flexors by the extensors). Lumbar, heat and articulations of the upper limb on the same side and opposite lower limb. Disperses the opposite kidney. Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Point is painful in cases of cerebral fatigue, excess work. Fatigue to exhaustion of the brain; encephalitis, diplopia, urine stopped; paralysis of the bladder. Breathless (dyspnea) headache. Cerebral headache: from excess work and emotions; from cerebral congestion, from encephalitis, from meningitis, from inflammation of the brain. Hiccoughs from inflammation of the brain, from hemorrhage or cerebral anemia. Diarrhea from excess energy of the large intestine (and typhoid): “can serve as a reunion point for the large intestine.” Cold into the bone marrow; cold of the upper limb side and inferior opposite limb. Upper limb same side: joints. Hand: grips without strength (weakness of flexors). Thumb: sprain or rheumatism. Opposite lower limb: joints, mid part of back between the scapula, opposite (rhomboids and dorsal intercostal muscles).Opposite lumbar muscles and vertebrae.
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=Psycho-Spiritual Components= This point goes tender **when someone is over-worked and mentally stressed. The body and mind is telling you to slow down**. Swollen, arthritic (rheumatic) knees, gonorrhea, paralysis or atony of the bladder, loss of sensation of the limbs or cold feeling in the bones. [JRW]