Name

極泉

• Ji Quan
• Spring of Water
• Water that is distributed throughout the body
• Supreme Spring
• Spring of the highest degree

Location

Beside the artery below the axilla

Actions

• Regulates the function of Heart: unblocks the channel and improves blood circulation
• Heart disease: tachycardia, heart failure
• Heart pain: depression, nervousness, tension, sadness: strengthens Heart-Qi
• Excess of Heart-Fire: dry mouth, thirst, drinks a lot of water, tachycardia, yellow eyes
• Local point: feeling of cold in the shoulder with difficulty of movement, shoulder pain, rigidity, hemiplegia, frozen shoulder

Treatment

• Massage
• Moxibustion, preferably massage
• Needling: with great care. palpate the artery, avoid it, and direct towards LI-15 LI