Change in the natural energetic movement of the organ/entrail/channel.

See: Qi

Causes

1. Emotional: anger and joy
2. Anatomical alterations. For example: hiatal hernia alters the descending movement of the Stomach.
3. Inadequate diet: excess of fats or pungent

Symptoms

• Lung (does not descend): dry cough, breathlessness, oppression of chest, hiccough, asthma.
• Spleen (does not ascend): diarrhea
• Stomach (does not descend): vomiting, belching, sour regurgitation, nausea, headache
• Large Intestine (does not descend): constipation

Points

• ST-36, BL-20: Earth
• LU-9, CV-17: Lung
• 10 ancient needles: Disorders of SP/ST, facilitate the ascending of the pure and descending of the impure