Acupoint+PC-7+(Da+Ling)

** PC7 ** ** • **  **Da Ling**  •  **Pericardium** **7**  //Great Mound, Great Plateau// Shu Stream Point. Yuan Source Point. Earth Point on Fire Meridian. Sedation Point (Son) Ghost Point (AKA: "Gui Zin", "Ghost Heart") = = =Location= In the middle of the transverse crease of the wrist, between the tendons of muscle palmaris longus and flexor carpi radialis.

=Point Summary= //Clears Heat from the Heart, Harmonizes the Stomach and Intestines, Unbinds the Chest, Clears the Nutritive Level, Calms the Spirit//

=Needling=

Depth:
0.3 - 0.5 cun

Technique:
Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
None

=General Indications=

Functions
clears and calms the heart; clears HT heat; sedates fire and cools; soothe, calm and quiet by cooling when heat is involved; main point for CTS

Indications
palpitations; gastritis with heat and anxiety; intercostal neuralgia; mental illness;

Special Notes
ghost point; shu stream; strong point but not used much in TCM; earth point and thus the dispersion point

=Diagnostic Indications:= Cardiac Conditions ** • ** Cardiac Pain ** • ** Chest Pain ** • ** Coughing Blood ** • ** Eructations ** • ** <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;">Gastrointestinal Disorders **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hypochondriac Region Pain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Insomnia **<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;">Palm Heat **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Palpitations **<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;">Stomach Pain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Throat Infections **<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;">Wrist Pain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies the vessels, sexual organs, kidney, lungs, throat, tonsils, cerebellum, opposite scaral nerves, armpit, anterior elbow and forearm, palm. Disperses the stomach Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Excess indignation or feeling, frenetic discontent, chagrin, tears, apprehension, fear, insomnia from excess. Disperses the vessels and sexual organs (heart governor); all congestion (cerebral, pulmonary, renal, local eye, etc.). Arteries hard, ample; hypertension (anger, red or yellow eyes, body hot, hot palms, headache mainly when leaning over, wrist pulse hard; temporal artery visible); arterial spasms. Heart agitated, pain, myocarditis, endocarditis, or intermittent (one stop every three pulsations). Kidneys congested, painful; red urine. Lung: chest painful, short breath, cough, angina, tonsillitis (headache, fever); tooth pain, and in the cheek. Stomach: acute gastritis, vomiting, intestines: stool like blood. Skin: inflammation w/ pus, abscess. Armpit: swollen lymph nodes, adenitis Anterior elbow and forearm: pain or contracture. Hand: contracture, spasms, writer's cramp, abscess in the whole hand, bubbles in the palm (dishydrosis), nutgall. Thumb and index finger, palmar side: flexors
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=Psycho-Spiritual Components= All of the source points on the Yin meridians have some greatness, sense of power, supreme, very important or or greater in their name. Da Ling is the **burial ground of the emperors**. A great reserve to be called upon, it will **ground fire, calming and nurturing, connects to the source energy of our forebears. Brings a strong sense of security and stability**. A mound from which the confused individual may see clearly. Useful when a person is exhibiting excess fire, esp. as weak nerves, instability, excessive laughter, instability of temperature (hot/cold), worry, fear, unhappiness, dyspnea, ulcers, insanity. It transforms the excess fire, giving it an earth quality, quelling insecurity and nervousness. [JRW]

As the Earth and source point, PC-7 may ground and nourish a scattered heart. I have found this point to be **very stimulating and generally reserve its use for sedating people in shock or providing strong stimulation to the Pericardium function in a way that could be said to "raise the dead"**. In this last usage, please note that the alternate name for PC-7 is Gui Zin, "Ghost Heart" [LJ]

Strong Foundation. Serene Perspective. **Useful for establishing serenity and calmness**, supporting the foundation of the fire. In many ways it is very much like Shen Men. Acts on the personality, scattered shen; panic, hysteria, insomnia. Madness, intense burning fevers, fever with great weariness. Treats phlegm in the heart - seizures. Shen disturbed, calms the shen by stabilizing the heart, for anxiety and mood changes due to Heart deficiencies; nervous exhaustion; emotional turmoil from changing relationships; indignation or emotional excess, frenetic discontent, chagrin, tears; manic behavior, hysteria w/ sudden laughing and crying; apprehension, panic, palpitations due to fear or fright; seizures, epilepsy [ALHIM]

Use instead of PC-6 when the patient is not ready = =