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Channel
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
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.