PC-7 Daling ( - Great Mound

A great, steady mound of Fire, a very Yin part of Fire. A mound is a little hill: it is a difficult journey and takes effort to get to the top, but when we get there we can see everything, like looking down from the top of a mountain, beauty both geographical and spiritual, seeing the whole picture. Da Ling is where the emperors were buried, a great reserve we can call on. It grounds Fire; it nurtures and calms, links us to our forebears or the source of energy, and gives a strong feeling of security. With this point the Official is bathed in the calmness, serenity and stability of Earth. It lets a person rise above hurt and pain while nourishing them, so a new perspective can come, and it picks up a lack of joy and lets it sit above the pain. It brings clarity, calm, serenity and grounding: a greater, higher vision with the richness and solidity of Earth. The best defense, the way to disarm someone, is with love; a happy and peaceful spirit keeps negativity away, as the finest silk floating in water escapes the sharpest sword.

Offers great perspective, raising us into joyful living and heartfelt gratitude.

• Every Yin meridian's Source point carries some greatness. Since any threat to Fire is in the end a threat to Earth, this point supports the Earth until the Fire comes back into balance, settling agitation, bringing calm and controlling the Fire; it grounds a patient's weak nerves on the Great Mound.

Location: At the centre of the wrist flexure crease, between the flexor carpi radialis and palmaris longus tendons.
Needle depth: 3 fen
Moxa: No moxa

• If the person's heart is fluttering open and closing: it gives a sense of solidity and strength for being able to protect the Heart
• To bring a sense of knowing what they need
• For heart protection: they do not know when to be vulnerable or when not to; intimacy, opening and closing, letting in and keeping out
• If someone is in an abusive relationship, it helps them see clearly from a new point
• As a mound from which a confused person can see clearly
• When a person shows excess Fire, particularly as instability, weak nerves or too much laughter; it quells insecurity and nervousness
• For symptoms that will not settle: hot, cold, then hot once more
• For the emotional aftermath when a relationship breaks up
• As a place to gain perspective on past relationships: to see whether the Heart needs protecting, and whether sorting out a relationship is appropriate
• For shyness; it brings the chest forward
• When there are hidden agendas, panic or insecurity, and the person can't share, give or take warmth
• To ground and nourish a scattered Heart
• To sedate people in shock

• Earth point, Source point and Sedation point of the Pericardium
• Forbidden for needle or moxa until very experienced (moxa is too heat generating); a safeguard when you are beginning, not permanently forbidden
• One of the Ghost points
• The Heart Protector looks to see what is going on in the kingdom, so it can protect the Heart
• Every Yin meridian Source point carries greatness or supremacy in their names: great, greater, supreme, very great
• Very stimulating; it can give the Heart Protector a strong enough jolt to raise the dead