Zhong Fu (LU-1) can be quite effective for mental and emotional disorders, as it opens a person to receive. When a person is overwhelmed with sadness this point will help them to relate to their suffering in a way which will enable them to move through it to what lies beyond. Dispersing helps a person to let go of the past and begin again. Depression, melancholy, conditions associated with a feeling of separateness, lonely; collapsed posture, imploded chest; sadness which produces a blockage in the chest.

It regulates lung qi and stops cough; expands and relaxes the chest, nourishes lung yin. Treatment point for the lung. Commonly used for excess conditions such as pneumonia, whooping cough or tonsillitis, cough due to accumulation of phlegm. Full, painful chest, lungs tight; difficult respiration. Stagnation of qi, retention of phlegm; cough and asthma, chest pain, dyspnea. Shoulder and upper back pain due to stagnation of qi. Sore throat, dry cough, spasms and cough; thick mucus, nasal congestion; tonsillitis. Fever, excessive sweating, bronchitis with cough and wheezing; pneumonia; pulmonary infections, lung abscess, tuberculosis. Face swollen, skin painful, warm red cheeks; rosacea, congested capillaries. Eyes red, painful, swollen; conjunctivitis. Skin tumors..

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Yun Men (LU-2)

(See picture. 6″ lateral from the anterior midline, immediately below the concave curve at the lateral end of the clavicle, directly above LU-1.)

When a person believes they “can not,” this point can reveal something which they might aspire to. It can be very powerful for the treatment of depression, heavy grief or when someone is closed off. A person who is living under a cloud of misery has no feeling for the field of possibilities. They do not see the value of the life they are living. This point works to dispel stagnation in the chest, helping a person to see beyond their self imposed limitations. Few people have learned how to change their negative emotions, thinking.

This point helps with cough, coughing fits; asthma, thoracic fullness, shortness of breath; bronchitis; tonsillitis; feeling of oppressive fullness and agitation of the chest; pulmonary congestion; tuberculosis. Pain in the chest shoulder and arm, pain on the back and shoulders; cannot raise arms. Nervous cough. Acne.

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Tian Fu (LU-3)

(See picture. Upper Arm, 3″ below axillary fold, radial side of biceps brachii)

When someone has withdrawn from life and relationships, or is unable to let go of old fears; people who are stuck in a cycle of repetitious negative feelings and dysfunctional patterns of behavior. Severe depression; blocked grief; people who feel locked up inside. Can turn a person in the direction of a path which is more meaningful, show them the life they have been missing. This point has a powerful psychological effect on all the emotional problems which can arise from lung disharmonies; depression, mental confusion and forgetfulness. Escapes by sleeping, dreaming, disassociating; loss of memory; delirious crazy talk. Facilitates self-remembering.

It regulates lung function and help with Cerebral congestion, dizziness; claustrophobia, agoraphobia; vertigo. Depression and bronchitis. Asthma, cough; dyspnea with inability go catch the breath; increases oxygen to brain. Epistaxis, bleeding from nose and mouth. Poisoning by gas, carbon dioxide, etc. Problems of perception; eye problems, nearsighted, dim vision; ear problems, hard of hearing. Pain in the medial aspect of the arm; generalized swelling; tumors. Malaria.

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Xia Bai (LU-4)

(See picture. Upper arm, 4″ below axillary fold, radial side of biceps brachii, 1″ below LU-3.)

Problems of the heart organ. Cardiac pain and shortness of breath; nervous anxiety with palpitations; internal pains of the chest, pain in the medial aspect of arm, nausea; melancholia. Cough, coughing fits; thoracic fullness, dry heaves. Rheumatism of the joints.

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Chi Ze (LU-5)

(See picture. Elbow, at cubital crease radial side of biceps tendon.)

When are mind and body lacks fluidity it leads to mental and emotional constipation; a build up of tension and toxins resulting in a lack of vitality, lethargy. The person feels squeezed and tense; rigidity is a key symptom, life seems to be hard, unyielding. When we are able to breathe, able to give and receive, life experience is nourishing and abundant. Life enters and energizes us with the breath. The cessation of breathing brings death. Physically we are of the earth and are supported by the earth, but the forces which animate us come from Heaven. We depend on the world we live in for material support, but it is Loving which makes life worth living. Openness is essential for receiving nourishment, and especially for spiritual nourishment. We align ourselves with the things we value, but if these things are unreal they lead us to grief. A person needing this point could have depression overlaid with fear, depression, or even madness. Someone who is bogged down; who is stuck in a sad condition; melancholia, with an edge of agitation. Much of what falls under the general label of mental illness is actually transformation which does not reach completion. Life mirrors our inner experiencing; this is what makes the evolution of consciousness possible. Many people are asleep to the message life is presenting them. Waking from the dream depends upon being upright and present within the experience, knowing ourselves as being in process, and accepting responsibility for our choices.

This point Expands and relaxes the chest; clears heat; moistens dryness. Stimulates the descending of lung qi (energy). Lung heat, retention of phlegm in lungs. Bronchitis; fever, thick mucus, respiration painful; pneumonia. Asthma, chest fullness and pain; dyspnea, cough; nosebleed. Cold phlegm in the lungs, profuse sputum, shivering, sneezing. Deficient lung yin, used to cool heat, tonify yin and moisten dryness; dry cough, sore throat, tidal fever; dry mouth and tongue; tonsillitis, neck and throat pain. Pleurisy; congestive pulmonary tuberculosis; emphysema; a dry hacking cough, and rigid spine; hemoptysis; “without equal for spitting of blood.” Swollen abdomen; incessant vomiting and diarrhea. Heart pain, pain into the arm; hypertension. Wind diseases, especially in children; spasms or convulsions; chronic meningitis of children; erysipelas, psoriasis. Frequent need to urinate; renal pain; enuresis; weak bladder, atony of the bladder. Nervous paralysis; pervasive aches and pains; muscular spasm; rigidity of vertebral column, and neck; spasmodic pain of the elbow and arm, cold in the arm; hemiplegia; quadriplegia.