Du-15

Du-15

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Element
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English

Gate of Muteness

Name

瘂門 (唖門)

Transliteration

Yamen

Description

Meeting point of the Governing and Yang Wei Mai vessels Point of the Sea of Qi

Indications
tongue muteness wind the neck and spine
Kinesiology
Stiff neck speech consciousness
Channel Psychology

Gv: Not right to be supported by others, I must support others. Yang Wei Mai: Courage to ask for support.

Point Psychology
mania-depression
Symptoms

Stiffness of the tongue with inability to speak, loss of voice, flaccidity of the tongue, heaviness of the head, brain confusion, epilepsy, clonic spasm, mania-depression, loss of consciousness, all kinds of yang heat and qi exuberance, absence of sweating, chills and fever, nosebleed that does not stop, stiffness of the neck, stiffness of the spine, sprain of the spine

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The point information was compiled from multiple sources including College of Complementary Medicine, Sydney Australia. Point location diagram recreated from A Manual of Acupuncture, P Deadman.