Name
太沖
- Tai Chong
- Supreme Assault
- Great Launch
Location
In a depression in front of the union of the 1st and 2nd metatarsal bones
Nature
Actions
- Drains stagnant Liver: greenish complexion, sighing, hypochondrial pain, oppression, gas, intestinal pain, spasms, constipation, menstruation not descending, difficulty urinating. Promotes Qi together with LI-4, the four barriers
- Subdues excess Liver-Yang: hyperthyroidism, headaches
- Emotional stress produces excess Liver-Fire: anxiety, choleric + LR-2
- Tonifies Liver-Blood (+ BL-18) and nourishes the eyes. Quick fatigue, lack of strength, dizziness, suffocation. The Liver stores Blood; little Wood produces Fire. Eye fatigue
- Floaters: bleed LI-1 on the opposite side
- Lower backache, lower abdomen pain or generalized pain with wiry pulse
- Calms Shen: tension, anguish, oppression, stress, hysteria globus PC-6 + 3 LR
- Digestive problems associated with Wood attacking Earth: Diarrhea, nausea or loss of appetite from nervousness, irritable colon + ST-36. See: Liver attacking Spleen and Liver attacking Stomach
Comments
- Protects the Liver for all hepatic disorders. Its fundamental action is to subdue Liver-Yang. It is used extensively for headaches due to rising Liver-Yang. Calms the Shen, tranquilizes the person with nervous tension and stress.
- Tonifies and nourishes Liver-Blood because it is a Yuan-Source Point
- Release Fire in the Heart: massage 3 LR and LR-2 to lower Fire before sleep
Treatment
- Needling: 0.3 CUN perpendicular