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Small Intestine 3 - Hou Xi
“Back Creek” “Back Stream” “Back Ravine” (Pertaining to Shu-Stream Point and to action of benefiting the back)
Perpendicular 0.5-0.7”, or moxa
Wood Point, Shu-Stream Point, Point of Tonification, Meeting Point of SI and Du Channels, Master Point of Du Mai, Special Point for Eyes and Left Heart Ventricle
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* Relaxes the Muscle Channels - pain in back, shoulders, arm and neck, contracture and twitching of the elbow, arm and fingers, intercostal neuralgia, finger spasm, anti-spasmodic point
* Opens the Governing Channel - parietal or occipital headache, one-sided headache,
torticollis, stiffness along the spine, apstonosis, neck rigidity, neck pain on Tai Yang with pain in flexion or extension, deafness,
tinnitis, earache, deaf-mutism, acute low back pain, lumbar pain, acute back injury, poor digestion, greasy stools, night sweating
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* Clears the Spirit - madness, epilepsy, , psychosis, hysteria or mania
* Clears Wind and Eliminates Wind Heat - epistaxis, tonsillitis, congestion of the eye, febrile diseases, sore throat, harmonizes the Shao yang, malaria, eyes red and painful, membrane on the eye, seizures,
pruritis, slow recovery after shock, Yang jaundice, tidal fevers
* Adjusts Hormones - pituitary gland problems (with pain at BL 2, SI 13, above BL 10) hormonal problems in GYN disorders, pancreas, liver, thyroid, parathyroid
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