LI-15

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Channel

Large Intestine LI

Yang Qiao Mai

Element

Metal

English

Shoulder Bone

Name

肩髃

Transliteration

Jianyu

Special Point

Key Point

Description

Meeting point with the Yang Qiao Mai , Lu sinew channel, Bl sinew channel

Indications

wind-damppainshoulder jointwindqi and bloodphlegm nodules

Kinesiology

key point for shoulder disorders

Channel Psychology

LI: Letting go. Holding on to things of value. Needing to be valued by others.  Lu: I let go of my grief. I value myself.  Bl: I let go of my need to control/ be controlled. I connect with other people. I am alone.

Key Spirit Point Themes

Let go of old patterns so can growreach for things

Physical Conditions

Pain - shoulder Shoulder Shoulder joint tingling hands and feet

Symptoms

Shoulder pain, weakness of the shoulder, heat sensation in the shoulder, redness and swelling in the shoulder, inability to raise the arm to the head, contraction and numbness of the arm, paralysis of one side of the body, paralysis, atrophy disorder, heat in the four limbs, inability to turn the head, painful obstruction of the fingers, painful urination, injury by cold with heat that does not dissipate, scrofula, goitre, seminal emission due to taxation, hypertension

Balances

LI15 Jian Yu – Shouldering and sustaining life/ shoulder bone Letting go Spirits Points

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.