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LI-10: X-10: shou san li
acupuncture
definition
shou san li = arm three miles
location: 2 cun distal from Qu Chi (LI-11), on the line between Yang Xi (LI-5) and Qu Chi (LI-11), in the extensor carpi radialis.
actions: lowers nervous excitement; promotes the circulation of Qi and Xue (Blood); tonifies Qi and Xue (Blood) (Maciocia, p. 378); benefits Qi of the arms and shoulders; removes Obstruction from and invigorates the channels; enhances action of the immune bodies (Finkelstein, p. 8); regulates the Stomach and Intestines; tonifies Yang Ming (Stomach and Large Intestine) and the internal duct of the Triple Warmer (Finkelstein, p. 8)
indications: cerebral congestion; hemiplegia; facial paralysis; toothache; adenitis; tonsillitis; ulcer; stomachache; indigestion; water brash; abdominal pain; pain from loin to navel (Mann, p. 8); vomiting and/or diarrhea; pleurisy; fibrocystic breasts; muscular spasm; arm paralysis, esp. after stroke; swelling of neck; aching in shoulder and upper arm; elbow stiffness; pruritus; poor circulation in extremities
needle technique: perpendicular insertion, 1.0 - 2.0 cun, producing sensation is local soreness and distension sometimes spreading through the forearm
moxa: 3 - 7 cones of direct moxa; 5 - 10 minutes of indirect moxa with a pole
combinations:
» with UB-62 and UB-63 for head Wind, visual dizziness and stiffness of the neck (Ellis, et al, 1988, p. 99);
» with St-36 for abdominal lumps due to Food Stagnation (Shanghai, p. 232); to treat digestate aggregation and Qi lumps (Ellis, et al, 1988, p. 99);
» with CV-12 and St-36 for "ulcer" (Shanghai, p. 232);
» with GB-21, LI-11 and LI-8, then LI-13, LI-9 and Lu-8, for arm pain caused by Cold-Wind (Shanghai, p. 607)
» with LI-11 for inflammation of the lateral epicondyle of the humerus (Shanghai, p. 230);
» with Ht-3 for numbness in the arm (Shanghai, p. 252).
footnotes
Reprinted from The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, Giovanni, p. 378, 1989, by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone, a division of Elsevier Limited.