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Tonifying
deficiency, Sedating excess
Tonify
– strengthen whole body Qi, Zheng Qi, Yin or Yang, Qi and/or blood.
Sedate
– eliminate pathogenic factors, restore homeostasis.
*Both
invigorate the body’s function.
Tonifying methods
Use
Moxibustion and proper tonifying needling techniques.
- warm the mid Jiao,
particularly for sinking syndromes, or not holding blood.
- deep
weak pulse shows Yang Qi deficiency.
Kidney Qi – BL 23, Du 4, Ren 4,
KI 3
Mid Jiao – BL 20, 21, Ren 12, 6,
ST 36
Lung Qi – LU 9, BL 13, ST 36,
SP 3
Heart & Spleen Qi – BL 15, 20, HT 7, SP 6
Kidney Yin – BL 23, Ren 4, KI 6,
LU 5
Raise Yang Qi – Bai
Hui, Ren 6, 12, ST 36
Sedating methods
Use
sedating needle techniques, and/or bleed 93 edge
or 7 star).
- stagnation in the Jing Luo must be moved
- if
pathogen is excess sedate, if it is full purge.
Wind/Heat – GB 20, LI 4, LU 7
Yangming excess heat – ST 25, 37, LI 11 (all
help induce bowel movements)
Excess Phlegm – Ren 22, ST 40, LI 4
Blood Stasis – PC 3, BL 40, 17, Jing-well
*When
the condition is neither excess or deficiency – treat the meridian
- use element points
- use Yuan-source with Shu-stream
- use neutral stimulation
*Can
sedate and tonify at the same time, or one after the other.
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