SI-5

SI-5

Forbidden in Pregnancy?
Element
English
Yang Valley
Name
陽谷
Transliteration
Yanggu
Special Point
Jing RiverFire Point
Description
Jing-River and Fire point
Indications
heat swelling calms the mind
Kinesiology
swelling of the neck jaw toothache
Channel Psychology
SI: I communicate what is in my heart. Confused. Bitter. Misunderstood. I listen with my heart.
Point Psychology
Mania mad walking. Brings mental clarity to help distinguish the right path among several
Symptoms
Swelling of the neck and submandibular region, lockjaw, stiffness of the tongue in babies preventing suckling, tongue thrusting, toothache in both the upper and lower jaw, tinnitus and deafness, visual dizziness, redness, swelling and pain of the eye, mania, mad walking, clonic spasm, pain of the chest or lateral costal region with difficulty in breathing, febrile disease with absence of sweating, chills and fever, pain of the wrist and hand, pain of the arm, shoulder pain with inability to dress oneself, painful haemorrhoids
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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.