Gb-38

Gb-38

Forbidden in Pregnancy?
Element
English

Yang Assistance

Name

陽輔

Transliteration

Yangfu

Special Point
Key PointJing RiverFire Point
Description

Jing-River and Fire point

Indications
GB channel heat
Kinesiology
key point for one sided headache
Channel Psychology

SJ: Other people give me no choice. I need to put others first before I make choices for myself. SI: I listen to my heart as to what is right for me. Pc: I follow my heart and choose what is right for me even when I am afraid of being hurt.

Key Spirit Point Themes
Striving versus hopeless
Symptoms

One-sided headache, pain of the outer canthus, throat painful obstruction, bitter taste in the mouth, sighing, pain of the chest and lateral costal region, chills and fever, sweating with cold shivering, pain in middle of the supraclavicular fossa, swelling and pain of the armpit, blue-green complexion, numbness, wandering pain of the joints, paralysis of one side of body, contracted sinews, joint pain, pain and numbness of the lateral side of the lower limb, lower limb painful obstruction, oedema below the knee, sensation in the lumbar region as if sitting in water, severe lumbar pain, lumbar pain like a small hammer in the middle of the back, pain of the lateral malleolus.

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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.