Shou Tai Yang- Small Intestine Channel

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Channel

Yin/Yang

Max. Time

Route

Important pt.

Category

Application

Small intestine

Si

 

Coupled with the heart

Yang

 

 

Formed the Tai-Yang axis with the urinary bladder channel

 

 

  1. 3 pm

 

 

weakest time:

1-3 am

Starts from the outside of the little finger, goes up the outside of the arm, passes the elbow, up to the shoulder blade, to the side of the neck, then end up by the ear.

1

Shaotse

Well

Coughing, headache

3

Houhsi

Transporting

Pain, tense muscles, restricted movement of the neck and shoulder area, small intestine disorders, ringing in the ears, difficulty in hearing, lumbar pain

Tonification

Confluent point for Du mai

(Governing channel)

4

Wanku

Source

Headache, lumbar pain, writer’s cramp, watery eyes

6

Yanglao

Cleft

restricted movement of the neck and shoulder area,

failing eye sight, pain along the channel

9

Jianzhen

 

Periarthritis of the shoulders, paralysis of the arm, deafness

17

Tianrong

 

Sore throat,

Tonsillitis

19

Tinggong

Ear disorders

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