Acupoint+TW-2+(Ye+Men)

//Humor Gate, Liquid Gate, Fluid Secretion Gate// Ying Spring Point. Water Point on Fire Meridian. = = =Location= When the fist is clenched, the point is located in the depression proximal to the margin of the web between the ring and small fingers.
 * Ye Men** • **Triple Burner** **2** • **10.2.230**

=Point Summary= //Clears Upper Burner Heat Calms the Spirit Activates the Channel Benefits the Ears// //Alleviates Pain//

=Needling=

Depth:
0.3 - 0.5 cun

Technique:
Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
None

=General Indications=

Functions
local

Indications
pain and swelling of the fingers

Special Notes
one of the Ba Xie points

=Diagnostic Indications:= Arm Pain • Deafness Sudden • Ear Disorders • Eye Disorders • Gum Disorders • Hand Pain • Headache • Loss Of Voice • Malaria •Throat Constriction •Throat Soreness • Tinnitus • Toothache •

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies the opposite body and brain, triple warmer (lower third), bladder, small intestine, lower spinal cord, temporal-parietal lobes; forearm, dorsum of hand, also same side. Disperses the spleen-pancreas (right point), liver (left point), opposite eye, ear, gums, teeth, parotid glands, sub-maxillary glands, all opposite side. Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Responds with shimen (CV-5). Passage point between the head and hand, liver, spleen-pancreas Spleen (right point), pancreas (left point). Hand: chilblains; back of the hand with red swelling up to the forearm; same side: disperse; opposite side: tonify; or weakness (can neither lift nor lower the hand). Lateral side of elbow and posterolateral forearm, back of wrist; dorsum of hand: contracture, pain or weakness. Congestion of opposite face and head; frenetic speech, hyperexcitation to the point of insanity: disperse; hot or cold from shock or emotional agitation, deranged mind, headache from cerebral anemia, vertigo, fainting: tonify. Opposite eye painful, troubled, scarlet: tonify; cataract, keratitis. Opposite ear pain, buzzing, violent or sudden deafness: tonify. Mouth: opposite gum inflammation: tonify; opposite tooth pain, inflammation, caries (in the lower teeth, pain in the upper teeth): tonify. Nose blocked: tonify; short breaths on inhalation and exhalation, parotid glands, opposite sub-maxillary glands, inflammation: tonify; insufficiency: disperse.
 * When tonified**:
 * Direct Effects (at the expense of the upper body):**
 * Opposite Effects:**

=Psycho-Spiritual Components= This is a gate which gives the ability to move, **allows all fluids and essence to be carried around the body**. Many illnesses restrict proper movement. This point is the water within the fire, so it's effects show in our ability to be fluid and yielding, to be expansive and then when appropriate to withdraw. This can be on a physical level of sweating, shivering, closed pores; or on a mental and spiritual level in our relationships and our enthusiasm for life. Our **movements may be physically restricted, we may seize up, or dry up. Our shoulders, elbows and wrists may be unable to exchange loving embraces**. Our water may not be controlling fire resulting in volatile hot tempered outbursts. The gate may be jammed open and letting in too much water causing all the problems of excess fluid. The patient may **feel that they are awash in their thoughts and carded away by them. Mind wandering with loss of stability (not madness), awash in thoughts, emotional turbulence, distracted or carried away by life and not in control**. In some cases, a lack of fluid may be the cause of a disharmony and the gate needs to be opened so the patient can **feel a sense of flow, of going along with the world**. This point will cool and provide fluid communication at every level at the right temperature. Good on a mental level for the person who is rigid and not flowing. On a physical level this can be understood as sweating or shivering which can regulate the heat in the body. **Frenetic speech excited to the point of insanity; hot or cold from shock or emotional agitation, deranged mind**. This is a point which has **particular effects on secretions, hormonal secretions** (regulates fire and water), it is the "liquid gate." [JRW]