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System of main meridians with acupuncture point locations. This article provides a comprehensive list of acupuncture points, locations on the body used in acupuncture, acupressure, and other treatment systems based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
However, by the second Century AD, 649 acupuncture points were recognized in China (reckoned by counting bilateral points twice). [4] [5] There are "12 Principal Meridians" where each meridian corresponds to either a hollow or solid organ; interacting with it and extending along a particular extremity (i.e. arm or leg). There are also "Eight ...
The Heart Meridian begins in the chest moves to the inner aspect of the arm down to the palm of the hand and ends on the pinky. (2)The Small Intestine, a Yang organ, separates pure food and fluid essences from the polluted. The pure essences are distributed to the spleen while the polluted are sent to the bladder and the large intestine.
The Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies is a bimonthly medical journal covering research related to acupuncture, the meridian system (a concept in traditional Chinese medicine for which no evidence exists that supports its existence), [1] [2] and related treatments.
As can be seen the names of the levels are the same as the names of the head and foot pairs of acupuncture meridians. The order is roughly the order that a disease takes as you go from health to death. In some disease levels are skipped or the order can change.
The zàng-fǔ are also connected to the twelve standard meridians – each yang meridian is attached to a fǔ organ, and five of the yin meridians are attached to a zàng. [100] As there are only five zàng but six yin meridians, the sixth is assigned to the Pericardium , a peculiar entity almost similar to the Heart zàng.
The practitioner may brush, knead, roll, press, and rub the areas between each of the joints, known as the eight gates, to attempt to open the body's defensive qi (wei qi) and get the energy moving in the meridians and the muscles. [3] Techniques may be gentle or quite firm.
The Pericardium network includes the pericardial sac, the Pericardium meridian, the small intestine and some parts of the brain. [1] The Pericardium is also called the "heart protector", [1] and, for clinical purposes, is considered a yin organ [2] paired with the yang organ San Jiao. In general theory, the Pericardium is not distinguished from ...