KI-20

KI-20

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Element
English

Abdomen Connecting Valley

Name

腹通谷

Transliteration

Futonggu

Description

Meeting point with the Chong Mai

Indications
middle jiao (middle third of body) chest and phlegm
Kinesiology
Channel Psychology

Ki: Fear, taking action, and a love of being alive. Chong Mai : Afraid of not being accepted or desired

Physical Conditions
Symptoms

Vomiting, undigested food in the stool, abdominal distension, diarrhoea, fullness of the chest, pain of the lateral costal region, heart pain, coughing and short breath, palpitations, disorientation, epilepsy, sudden loss of voice, swelling beneath the tongue with difficulty in speaking, protrusion of the tongue, deviation of the mouth, inability to turn the neck, malaria, redness of the eyes originating at the inner canthus

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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.