Name
通里
- Tong Li
- Communicates interior with exterior
- Communicate the measurement of jade
Location
1 CUN above the wrist crease, on the radial side of the ulnar tendon.
Nature
- Connecting (Luo) Point of the Heart. Communicates with the Small Intestine Channel
Actions
- Sudden loss of voice (from fear, from anger attack, from stroke or from wind + cold)
- Somnolence from Heart-Qi deficiency: lacks fire, excess water (LI-3 + 5 HT: somnolence, dampness)
- Regret, remorse
- Restlessness, uneasiness, as if doing something wrong
- Heaviness in the four limbs
- Refreshes the fire in Small Intestine that gives urinary symptoms: haematuria, nocturnal enuresis, incontinence
- Refreshes the blood of the uterus in excessive bleeding: metrorragia, menorrhagia
Symptoms of the longitudinal connecting vessel
- Fullness: distension of chest and diaphragm
- Empty: cannot speak. Aphasia
Comments
Yuan-Source Point of the Small Intestine (SI-4 + 5 HT) regulates diarrhea from nervous system
- Calms the Shen
- Regulates Heart-Qi
- Unblocks the tongue
Treatment
- Needling: 0.3 CUN perpendicular
- Moxibustion