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Channel
Element
English
Outer Hill
Name
外丘
Transliteration
Waiqiu
Special Point
Xi-Cleft
Description
Xi-Cleft point of the Gall Bladder channel
Indications
GB channel pain heat detoxification
Kinesiology
skin pain
Channel Psychology
GB: Decisions/ choices. I implement my heart’s desire. Decisions are painful.
Point Psychology
mania
Key Spirit Point Themes
Fixed goals
Symptoms
Distention of the chest and lateral costal region, pigeon chest in children, headache, mania, abdominal pain, rabies, atrophy disorder and painful obstruction of the lower limb, pain of the skin, cold sensation and stiffness and pain of the nape and neck, aversion to wind
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.