LI-11 Quchi - Crooked Pond
More Spirit Names: Pool at the Bend, Ghost Minister, Ghost Leg, Yang Marsh, Mental Precision
| English: | Crooked Pond |
| Also Known As: | Pool at the Crook Corner Pond Crooked Pool Guitui (Ghost Leg) |
Location
- When the elbow is flexed, the point is in the depression at the lateral end of the transverse cubital crease midway between LU-5 Chize and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus.
Needling
- Puncture perpendicularly 1 to 1.5 c.un.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
- Join to HT-3 Shaohai, if desired (2-2.5 cun). Sensation: local distention and soreness, sometimes an electric numb sensation extending to the shoulder or fingers.
- Oblique insertion towards the hand 1.5 to 2.5 cun. If after obtaining Qi, the needle is twirled rapidly, the sensation can be perceived along the forearm to the shoulder.
- Angled toward the elbow joint 0.5 to 1 cun, foe paralysis of the upper limb. Sensation: numb, electric sensation extending to the fingertips.
Command Functions
- He-Sea Point of the LI channel
- Earth point of the LI channel
- Tonification point
- Reinforcing point of the Large Intestine channel
- Upper Meeting point
- Mental precision point
- Antispasmodic point
- Ma Dan-Yang Heavenly Star point
- Ghost point
Actions
- Alleviates Exterior conditions
- Dispels Wind, Wind-Heat and Wind-Dryness
- Alleviates Dampness
- Alleviates itching
- Reduces fever
- Clears Fire
- Clears Heat
- Clears Summerheat
- Cools Blood Heat
- Moistens Dryness
- Stimulates sweating
- Transforms Damp-Heat
- Transforms Damp-Summerheat
- Invigorates the Blood
- Facilitates Qi and Blood flow
- Regulates and moistens the Large Intestines
- Regulates the Lungs (especially Lung Qi)
- Drains pathogenic influences from the Lungs
- Softens hard masses
- Benefits the shoulders
- Twelfth of thirteen Ghost Points for the treatment of psychosis and epilepsy
- Removes obstruction from the joints
- General tonifying effect
Indications
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Combinations
| HT-9 | ST-36 | SP-6 |
Fever | Stimulates digestion and general metabolism Hypertension | Diseases of the uterus General inflammation |
Measles | Hypertension | High fever |
Toothache | Soreness and pain in the hand and arm Hemiplegia following Windstroke Clonic spasm of the upper limb | Hematemesis |
GB-39 | ||
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura | Injury by cold with great Heat that does not recede (reducing method) | Manic raving, fear and fright |
Malaria with much Cold and little Heat | Malaria with much Heat and little Cold | Toothache with aversion to cold |
GB-34 | LI-4 | |
Hemiplegia | Hemiplegia | Diseases of the head, face, ears, eyes, mouth and nose |
LI-15 | SJ-1 | |
Windstroke with one-sided withering and incessant pain | Contraction of the arm with tightness of the sinews of both hands | Pain in the elbow, maybe Cold |
SJ-15 | ||
Pain and Cold of the arm | Atrophy disorder Numbness of the arm | Pain and heaviness of the shoulder with inability to raise the arm |
LU-5 | GB-21 | |
Hypertension | Contraction of the elbow with pain | Pain of the forearm |
Pain of the forearm | Hypertension | Bacillary dysentery |
Contraindications
Notes
- This is the best point for chronic constipation.
- This point treats internal devils.
- It is excellent for providing stability in epilepsy, depression and insanity.
- This point brings stability to the Large Intestine and is especially good for alternating diarrhea and constipation.
- This point clears out accumulated mental rubbish causing a person's thinking to be muddled.
- This is an antibiotic point. It can be used before surgeries to decrease the likelihood of post-op infection.
- Although this point does have some actions on the Large Intestine, for disorders of the Large Intestine, the lower he-Sea point of the Large Intestine, ST-37 Shangjuxu is preferred.
- This point is often in Liver Fire patterns with hypertension.
- Known as the "fire engine," LI-11 clears every kind of Heat: Wind-Heat, Blood-Heat, Damp-Heat, Toxic Heat and Organ Heat (Liver, Heart, Stomach, Lung, Large Intestine). Typical signs are a red tongue with yellow coating and a rapid pulse.
Five Elements Spirit Perspective
| Spirit of the Point | Crooked Pond is the Earth point and Tonification point on the Colon, and it brings the earth into the Metal. It is for Metal that requires the stabilizing force of Mother Earth, where there is no nurturance for the Metal. It grounds a Metal that is too far up in the clouds, restores the mother-child link and brings a sense of harvest. It treats internal devils and brings stability in depression, epilepsy and insanity. The Earth within gives stability while a person is in the process of letting go. |
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| Worsley | Location: On the posteroradial forearm. With the palm side of the forearm laid across the chest, it is found between the humerus's lateral epicondyle and the outer end of the elbow crease. |
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From Class
- LI-11 local / LI-1 distal (tennis elbow): Local LI-11, distal jing-well LI-1; needling the jing-well challenges the nociceptor response and gives inflammation an exit. (Alexander)
- LI-11, LI-1, LI-15, LI-20 (channel opening): Define the area of contention as root, then open the channel both ways — LI-11 to LI-1 and up to LI-15, exit LI-20 (Tom Bisio's 'lock and key'). (Alexander)
- LI-11, SJ-5, ST-40 to clear heat: Clears heat in Yangming and Shaoyang via the primary channels. (Rabinowitz)
- Clearing fire toxins: BL-11, SP-10, BL-17, KI-9, PC-3, LI-11: Clear fire toxins with BL-11, SP-10, BL-17; KI-9 prevents maternal toxin transmission; PC-3 clears all three levels; LI-11, SP-10 for autoimmune reactivity. (Lewis)
- Month 9 Shen/Po points: HT-4, HT-7, LU-3, LU-7, BL-42; avoid LI-11: Calm the spirit and Po; avoid LI-11 this month. (Lewis)
- Running piglet/vascular stress: SP-4 + PC-6; bowels: ST-36, ST-37, ST-39, LI-11: Anxiety/panic may mean vascular stress in the child — open Chong with SP-4 + PC-6; moxa chest for reflux; ST-36, ST-37, ST-39, LI-11 disinhibit the bowels. (Lewis)
- 13 Ghost Points as four trinities (at/after death): Four trinities moxa'd or touched after death to free what is bound: Du-20, LU-11, SP-1; PC-7, BL-62, Du-16; ST-6, Ren-24, PC-8; Du-23, Ren-1, LI-11; plus Yintang. (Lewis)
- Placental issues & preeclampsia: Abruption: nourish yin/blood, subdue Liver wind (Gou Teng, Mai Men Dong); accreta = blood stasis; preeclampsia: refer for bloodwork, Du-16, GB-20, ST-40, BL-62, LI-11. (Lewis)