Du-4

Du-4

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Element
English

Gate of Life (Ming Men)

Name

命門

Transliteration

Mingmen

Special Point
Spirit Point
Indications
heat
Kinesiology
Spine
Channel Psychology

Gv: Not right to be supported by others, I must support others.

Physical Conditions
Symptoms

General health and vitality, heat in the body like fire, absence of sweating, heat of the five zang, shaking of the head with open mouth, tinnitus, dizziness, severe muscle spasm causing backward retraction of the head with arching of the back, splitting headache, childhood epilepsy, fear and fright, seminal emission, retention of urine, red and white vaginal discharge, prolapse of the rectum, haemorrhoids, blood in the stool, stiffness of the lumbar spine, all types of lumbar pain due to deficiency, spinal rigidity with inability to flex and extend the back, cold painful obstruction of the hands and feet

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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.