Acupoint+PC-8+(Lao+Gong)

 ** PC8 ** ** • **  **Lao Gong** ** • **  **Pericardium** **8** ** • **   //Palace of Toil, Palace of Weariness, Essence Satisfaction// Ying Spring Point. Fire Point on Fire Meridian. (Horary) Exit Point Ghost Point (AKA: "Gui Cu", "Ghost Cave") = = =Location= On the transverse crease of the palm, between the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal bones. When the fist is clenched, the point is just below the tip of the middle finger.

=Point Summary= //Clears Heat From The Pericardium, Harmonizes the Stomach, Clears the Nutritive Level, Revives Consciousness, Clears Middle Burner Heat, Cools Blood//

=Needling=

Depth:
0.3 - 0.5 cun

Technique:
Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
None

=General Indications=

Functions
cools heart; drains heat

Indications
heat exhaustion; cardiac pain; yin exhaustion; stomatitis; foul breath; ulcerated oral cavity; hysteria and mental illness due to heat; excessive sweating of palms

Special Notes
fire point

=Diagnostic Indications:= Anger ** • ** Cardiac Pain ** • ** Coma ** • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fear **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fever **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Halitosis **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inability To Swallow Food **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <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;">Mouth Ulcers **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nosebleed **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Perspiration Excessive in Palms **<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;">Skin Disorders **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ulcers **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vomiting **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Windstroke **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies all the Yin meridians, particularly the sexual organs, sympathetic system, endocrine system, superior occipital lobes, inferior frontal lobes, spinal cord, tactility, smell-smell-taste, between the nose and throat, tips of the fingers. Disperses all the Yang meridians, parasympathetic system Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Responds w/ fenchi (GB-20) opposite and baihui (GV-19, IS GV-20). Third point of the heart governor acting particularly on the sexual organs. The energy leaves the heart governor to enter the triple warmer by a branch to guanchong (TW-1) Fatigue, physical exhaustion, counterflow of energy from fatigue, timid, withdrawn, restless, anxious, easily discontented, or cannot stop laughing, primate [po]; blood in the nose, stools or urine; hypertension; cerebral congestion. Mouth: bad breath (adults or infants); opposite side of mouth: inflammation, difficulty in swallowing; opposite gums: inflammation (adults and children), abscess. Throat: opposite side: angina; sense of taste. Lungs: cough, asthma, pain and fullness of the chest and sides. Burning mucus, sense of smell. Stomach: belching, vomiting, intense thirst, pain in the heart Skin: pain, inflammation, abscess, scabies. Hand: modified sense of touch, writer's cramp, retraction of the palmar aponeurosis, rheumatism, pain, thumb, index finger, middle finger: pain, rheumatism or weakness, flaccidity. The palm and this point have a great importance for the taking of energy (left) or the giving of energy (right)
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=Psycho-Spiritual Components= The Palace is the house of god, above all it has love, caring, affection, and warmth. Gives the person strength to go on with renewed vigor. A person may look for love w/ sexual promiscuity or their fire may have gone out, you may see weariness and flatness, cold, no energy. If the patient is **fed up of struggling** - in a rut, take them to the palace, the house of god, the emperor's palace. It is full of opulence, abundance, warmth, love, etc. This point brings the person to the palace, he is rested, bathed, fed, loved. **It totally recharges the person, bathes them in sunshine**. **One of the most powerful points on the body, bring hope eternal, causes heart energies to leap up.** Helps one to find memory of the heart's desire, passion, prayer point. Use this point when the person is **isolated, feeling rejected, cut off; when they feel lost, at rock bottom and unable to share. Sexual problems of all kinds;** frigidity, impotence, sexual promiscuity, intimacy w/out affection. Lacking in passion; weariness and flatness, cold, no energy. You could use this point when **chronic disease has taken hold and is smothering the person.** Moxa is very effective. Be careful, you can overheat a person with this point. Best used in horary time. If their fire is volatile (up and down) it can make things worse. Deeper than PC-7 or PC-9. Fire which is out of control or seeming to be out altogether, blood where it should not be - blood in the stools and urine, bleeding hemorrhoids, gums, fever w/ no sweating, anger and frustration, **manic depressive cycles, acute sadness and depression**. Deficiency of fire can manifest as cold or rigid interactions, miserable people unable to share warmth, love and affection; chronic asthma w/ poor circulation, poor memory [JRW]

As the horary point, PC-8 may **rekindle the fires of a weary heart**. I think of this as a point that can induce a state of bliss, which may restore one's memory of safety and joy buried in the depths of self. I have found this to be **one of the most profound points for reawakening the heart's fire and capacity for joy**. [LJ]

Can be useful for people dealing w/ strain in relationships, lack of tolerance, lack of self-esteem. **Betrayal, the extended consequences of denial and betrayal of self**. People who are **insensitive or confused about sexuality. Post-traumatic Stress disorders**, inability to relax, unable to connect with their true self. Fatigue, physical exhaustion; emotionally exhausted; timid, withdrawn, anxious, restless, easily discontented; or manic. Affects the senses: tactility, smell, taste and sexuality; effects the endocrine system; increases circulation, memory. **Giving and receiving energy**. 22 divided by 7 is Pi. The 98th point is HT-1 the "Ultimate Source" AKA Guicu, "Ghost Cave". In classical texts the heart is described as the "Void" which is the source of all, boundless and eternal. For the heart to interact directly with the world would imply the possibility of its limitation. Therefore, the minister of the heart, which is the pericardium, has the task of being the representative for the heart in the world, acting with the authority of the heart to order the world in accordance with the divine design. This being the identity point for the pericardium tells us that here we have the essence of the heart, acting in the world in order to establish the right relations between all aspects of life. Acupuncture is an integrated cosmological system, the 361 points the communication of a teaching. **Every aspect of the microcosm is addressed and a thorough understanding of the design is available through the study of the points** [ALHIM]