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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).
The meridian system (simplified Chinese: 经络; traditional Chinese: 經絡; pinyin: jīngluò, also called channel network) is a pseudoscientific concept from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that alleges meridians are paths through which the life-energy known as "qi" (ch'i) flows.
The lungs also disperse bodily fluids, defend the body from a cold or flu, govern the sense of smell, and open in the nose. Dysfunction of the Lungs leads to colds, the flu, phlegm, and asthma. The Lung Meridian begins at the chest moves to the inner arm, palm, and ends on the thumb.
Correspondences between the body and the universe have historically not only been seen in terms of the Five Elements, but also of the "Great Numbers" (大數; dà shū) [79] For example, the number of acu-points has at times been seen to be 365, corresponding with the number of days in a year; and the number of main meridians–12–has been ...
Traditional acupuncture involves the belief that a "life force" circulates within the body in lines called meridians. [39] The main methods practiced in the UK are TCM and Western medical acupuncture. [40] The term Western medical acupuncture is used to indicate an adaptation of TCM-based acupuncture which focuses less on TCM.
The zangfu are also connected to the twelve standard meridians – each yang meridian is attached to a fu organ and each yin meridian is attached to a zang. They are five systems of Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, Kidney. [1] [2] [3] To highlight the fact that the zangfu are not equivalent to the anatomical organs, their names are often capitalized.
Three main dantian are typically emphasized: [1] [2] Lower dantian ( 下丹田 , Xià Dāntián): at the crossing of the horizontal line behind the Ren-6 acupoint and vertical line above the perineum , which is also called "the golden stove" (金炉 pinyin: Jīn lú) or the namesake "elixir-of-life field" proper, where the process of developing ...
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.