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Heart 7 - Shen Men

“Spirit’s Door” “Spirit Gate”

Perpendicular or Oblique 0.3-0.5”, or moxa

Earth Point, Shu-Stream Point, Point of Sedation


* Calms the Spirit, Pacifies the Heart - insomnia, irritability, mental disorders, depression, epilepsy, poor memory, amnesia, palpitations, hysteria, mania, dementia, neurasthenia, anxiety, excessive dreaming, face purple and raving, likes to laugh, frightened, laughing and sobbing alternately, hallucinations, deficient autism or dreaminess, insomnia due to excitement, cannot stop talking, paralysis of hypoglossus, addictions, constipation with emotional upset (Sawada) {between Ht 7 and SI 5 - Sig Men}


* Clears Obstructions from the Channels - impotence, yellowish sclera, pain in hypochondriac region, vomiting blood, panting, pain at medial meniscus of knee (Ito), pain at Kid 27, shoulder pain of SI and HT channels (with SI 5)

* Tonifies the Heart Meridian - shortness of breath, desires cool drinks, loss of taste and appetite, urinary incontinence, cold feet, fear of cold, shivering, palms of hands warm, cardiac and renal energy weakness, shortness of breath with hot body, Ht Blood or Yin Deficiency, Heart Yang or Qi Deficiency


* Regulates Accumulated Qi in the Heart - cardiac pain, heart disease, angina, heart big and dilated, warmth in cardiac region, irregular pulse, fibrulation, edema of the tongue, syncope, shock, heart failure

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