SI-5

SI-5

Forbidden in Pregnancy?
Element
English

Yang Valley

Name

陽谷

Transliteration

Yanggu

Special Point
Jing RiverFire Point
Description

Jing-River and Fire point

Indications
heat
Kinesiology
swelling of the neck
Channel Psychology

SI: I communicate what is in my heart. Confused. Bitter. Misunderstood. I listen with my heart.

Point Psychology
Mania
Symptoms

Swelling of the neck and submandibular region, lockjaw, stiffness of the tongue in babies preventing suckling, tongue thrusting, toothache in both the upper and lower jaw, tinnitus and deafness, visual dizziness, redness, swelling and pain of the eye, mania, mad walking, clonic spasm, pain of the chest or lateral costal region with difficulty in breathing, febrile disease with absence of sweating, chills and fever, pain of the wrist and hand, pain of the arm, shoulder pain with inability to dress oneself, painful haemorrhoids

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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.