Liver (zang) Ming Huang (Bright Yellow)

Kidney (zang) Tong Shen (Open Kidney),

Heart zang Open Heart (88.03)

Lung zang Four Horses Group (88 . 1 7-19)

Spleen zang Three Layer Group (San Chong),

Tung's Acupuncture focuses on the balancing of qi (yang) and blood (yin),

The pathway of the five zang are all connected with channels in which qi and

blood circulate. Disharmony between qi and blood cause all kinds of disease. So it

is important to keep the channels unobstructed.

Suwen, Chap.62

Discussion on the Regulation of Channels

Tung's acupuncture uses the filiform needle to unobstruct the qi of the channel (jing) and

the three edged needle to unobstruct the blood in the collaterals (luo). However, local

points (ashi points) are seldomly selected because Master Tung felt that when evil (xie)

invades the human body, it flows from the left to right, right to the left, upper to the lower,

or from lower to the upper. Then the evil flows to four extremities along the channels. So,

Tung's acupuncture mostly picks the unique point of the upper body to treat the retained evil
in the lower body, the unique point of the right side to treat the retained evil in the left,

and vice versa. In the Suwen, the method of treating evil in the channels is called Juci and

the method to treat the evil in the collaterals is Muci.

When evil (xie) attacks the channels, disease may occur on the right side if the

left side is full of pathogenic factors and disease may occur on the left side if the

right side is full of pathogenic factors. However such an arder may change in certain

cases in which pain on the left side is not relieved but the pulse on the right

becomes abnormal. Such a disease must be treated with "Juci" to needle the channels,

not the collaterals. Pain in collateral disea3e is different from pain in channel

disease, that is why the needling method used is called "Muci".

Suwen, Chap. 63

Discussion on Contralateral Needling Therapy

Master Tung's method of pricking out blood superficially with a three edged needle to

treat points on the dorsal trunk or the ventral trunk can also be found in the Suwen (Plain

Coversation) of Yellow Emperor' s Canon of Medicine:

In needling the chest and abdomen, it is necessary to avoid impairing the five

zang . . . . . . . . To deal with transmission of the disease into the zang, the dorsal trunk

should be needled. The dorsal trunk refers to the back-shu points . . . . . . . The majar

technique of needling is to prick out blood from the shallow region.

Suwen, Chap. 55

Further Elucidation of Needling Therapy

The needle manipulation techniques of Tung's acupuncture are quite simple and easy to

perform. They basically consist of "upward twist", "downward twist" and "retaining of

the needle" . Clockwise rotation (upward twist) is for reinforcement

and counter-clockwise (downward twist) is for reduction.

"Rotating the needle counter-dockwise

is the reduction method which produces cold; Rotating needle dockwise is the reinforcement

method which produces warmth."

In regards to the amount of time that the needles should be retained, we should consider

the circulation of qi and blood. Qi and blood circulate through the body 50 cycles/day,

which means that 28.8 minutes are needed for one complete circulation. Therefore the
suggested

amount of time to retain the needles in our system is 45 minutes. This guarantees at

least one cycle of qi and blood through the body.

Tung's unique points are not only for treatment, they also

can be used for diagnosis and prevention

How to make diagnosis if genuine qi (zhen qi) and evil qi (xie qi) have interacted

with each other but there is no fluctuation of the pulse? " Qibo answered, "It can

be diagnosed by carefully examining the vigorous and weak states of the pulse in

the three regions and nine divisions and inspecting the pulses in the left, right ,

upper and lower to see if there are abnormal or weak states.

Suwen, Chap. 27,

Discussion on the Separation and Combination of Zhen Qi and Xie Qi.

Shàn qì 疝氣 Hernia Dolor.

liver pulse is large, rapid and deep. pricking blood out at LVI (Da Dun), followed by burning 3-7
eones of moxa.

kidney pulse is large and in the depth. prick blood out

heart pulse is large, rapid and deep. Five Crevice points.

lung pulse is deep and beating. Five Crevice points

spleen pulse is rapid. prick blood out as

Needle Technique:
11.06 Retum to Nest: needle 1-3 fen in depth, stick needle from dorsal border of phalanx.
Needling both sides simultaneously is forbidden.
11.24 Gynecology: insert needle 2 fen in depth with both points

11.07 Finger Four Horses (Zhi Si Ma) Indications: pleuritis, pleural pain, skin disease,
facial black spots (emotion upset), rhinitis, tinnitus and otitis.
11.08 Finger Five Metal and Finger Thousand Metal. (Zhi Wu Jin & Zhi Qian Jin) Indications:
enteritis, abdominal pain

11.09 Heart Knee (Xin Xi) Indications: knee pain, scapulalgia.

11.10 Wood Fire (Mu Huo) heart & liver. Indications: hemiplegia
11.11 Lung Heart. heart, lung. Indications: vertebral pain, neck pain , crus (lower leg)
distending pain.

11.12 Two Comer Bright (Er Jiao Ming) kidney. Indications: wrenched
lumbago with hard breathing, renal pain, pain in the supra-orbital
ridge (frontal headache) and nasal bone pain.
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diagonal add up to a total of 15 (see middle picture above). This is equal to the 15 days in each
of the 24 cycles of the Chinese solar year.

The significance of the arrangements of the numbers on the giant tortise feature prominently
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9 ages, each lasting 20 years. Three 20 year ages make up one period. A full cycle takes 180
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The Mechanism of Disease of the Five Zang

All disease with wind causing swaying and dizziness: liver.

All disease with cold causing contracting and pulling in: kidney.

All disease with dammed up qi resulting in the chest pressure: lung.

All disease with dampness causing swelling and fullness: spleen.

All pain disease with itching and sores: heart.

The Essence of Tung' s Palmar Diagnosis

Master Tung' s diagnosis mostly depends on observing patient' s palm. The five zang channels
of the palm are displayed in the above figure. Examine the palm for blue vessels, reness,
abnormal spots, tendemess etc .. The channels of the palm are as follows:
• Line from index finger to LUlO: lung.
• From middle finger to PC8: heart.
• From the ring finger to the wrist crease: liver & spleen.
• From the small finger to the wrist crease and the ulnar side of the palm: kidney.

Liver disease:

Excess syndrome: the hypochondriac pain and this pain pulls on the lower abdomen. lt lets

that person develop a tendency to be angry.

Deficiency syndrome: the blurred vision, deafness and frequent fear as if someone was

about to arrest him.

Treatment: Select the acupoints in liver and gallbladder channels. If adverse flow of qi

leads to headache, loss of hearing and bucea! swelling it can be treated by bloodletting.

Heart disease:

Excess syndrome: pain in the chest, distending hypochondriac fullness, hypochondriac

pain. This pain involves the chest, back and scapula as well as pain of the medial side of

the arm.

Deficiency syndrome: the distention of the chest and the abdomen. The area below the

flanks and the lower back pull each other and have referred pain.

Treatment: Select the acupoints on heart and small intestine channels. Also bloodletting

below the tangue. If heart disease changes in to other disease, bloodletting in popliteal area.

Spleen disease:

Excess syndrome: the heaviness of the body, easy hungry, myasthenia, flaccidity of the

feet, frequent spasm, and pain of the soles in walking.

Deficiency syndrome: the abdomen is full and there are sounds in the intestines. Diarrhea

with undigested food and dyspepsia.

Treatment: Select the acupoints in spleen, stomach and kidney channels to do bloodletting.

Lung disease:
Excess syndrome: panting, cough, ad verse flow of qi, pain of the shoulder and back, sweating.

Pain of the buttock, genitals, thigh, knees, femur, calves, shins,and feet.

Deficiency syndrome: shortness of breath, deafness and dry throat.

Treatment: Select acupoints in lung channel, outside of bladder channel and inside of liver

channel to do bloodletting.

Kidney disease:

Excess synd rome: abdomen distention and swelling of the tibia area; pants and coughs and

heaviness of the body; sweating in the sleep and aversion to wind.

Deficiency syndrome: pain of chest, upper and lower abdominal pain, the patient suffer

from coolness, and unhappiness.

Treatrnent: Select acupoints in kidney and bladder channels to do bloodletting.

Suwen, chap. 22

Discussion on the Association of the Zang Qi with the Four Seasons

The above treatments of five zang diseases emphasize bloodletting as well as filiform

needling. When applying Tung's acupuncture for example, kidney disease, the treatment

method is to follow Tung's kidney channel to find the appropriate points, e.g. the Lower

Three Emperor Group (77.1 7, 19, 21) or Kidney Gate (77.18), or Open Kidney Gate Group

(88.09-11), or Wrist Smooth One & Two (22.08-09); or choose the kidney, bladder and occiput

bloodletting areas to prick the blood out.

Lung Pulse:

Excess and forceful: Stick Layer Water (22.01) & Layer Metal (22.02), plus prick apex of ear

(99.08).

Deficiency and forceless: Needle Spirit Bone (22.05) & Great White (22.04), or Four Horses

Group (88. 1 7-19).

Excess and forceful with wind and fire: prick Lll & LI2, or LUlO and BLl l-13.

Deficiency and forceless with wind and cold: Stick Common Cold (88.07-08) and Earth Ear
(99.04).

Heart pulse:

Excess and forceful: Stick Lower Three Fires (66.10-12), or prick Back Heat (DTl l).

Deficiency and forceless: Stick Open Heart Group (88.01-03), Shoulder Center (44.06), or

Fire Master (66.04).

Excess and forceful with wind and fire: Stick Curve Mound (33.16). Prick Nine Monkeys

(DT06), Metal Five (VT03).

Deficiency and forceless with wind and cold: Stick Back Vertebrae( 44.02) & Head Chief

(44.03), or Upper Three Fires (33.04-07) .

Spleen (Stomach) pulse:

Excess and forceful: Prick 1 09 -1 1 1 on the Dorsal Trunk. Stick Wood Keep (66.06), Earth

Water (22 . 1 1 ), Spleen Swelling (1 1 . 18) , Door Metal (66.05), or Heaven Emperor (77. 17).

Deficiency and forceless: Stick Four Flower Center (77.09), Four Flower Lower (77. 1 1 ),

Flower Bone Two (55.03), right Three Layers Group (77.05-07) .

Excess and forceful with wind and fire: Prick Stomach Hair Seven (VT04) . Stick Wood
Gynecology

(66.02), or Leg Thousand Metal & Leg Five Metal (77.24-25)

Deficiency and forceless with wind and cold: Stick Earth Ear (99.04), Flower Bone two

(55.03), Three Eyes ( 1 1 .21) and Beside Three Miles (77. 22) .

Liver Pulse

Excess and forceful: Stick Wood Gynecology (66.02), Wood Keep & Scoop(66.07-08), Branch

& Falling Connection (44. 13-14).

Deficiency and forceless: Stick Retum to Nest (11 .06), Lower and Upper Curve (44.15-16),

Upper Three Yellow Group (88.12-14).

Excess and forceful with wind and fire: Stick Wealth Top (44.04), Intestine Gate (33.10) ,

Wood Fire ( 1 1 . 10).

Deficiency and forceless with wind and cold: Stick Gallbladder ( 1 1 . 1 3),, Hand Five Metal

(33.08), Four Horses Group (88 . 1 7-19).

Kidney Pulse:

Deficiency and forceless: Stick Open Kidney Group (88.09- 1 1 ), State Water (1010.25).

Excess and forceful with wind and fire: Stick Four Flower Center (77.09), Fire Scatter
(66.12). Prick Three River (DT15).

Deficiency and forceless with wind and cold: Stick Kidney Gate (77.18), Smooth Wrist One

& Two (22.08-09), Human Emperor (77.21 ) .

Deficiency and large. looks like feeble old man: Stick Water Pathway (1010.19), Water Metal

(1010.20), Water Phase (66.14), Finger Three Layers ( 1 1 .14).

Dr. Liu 's pulse diagnosis method is as follows:

Left cun, guan and chi indicate heart, liver and kidney.

Right cun, guan and chi indicate lung, spleen and life gate (ming men).

Additionally the five zang pulse method from three regions and nine divisions also can be

employed to gather more information. The areas to palpate the pulses are as follows:

Liver pulse: LV 3 (Tai Chong)

Heart pulse: HT 7 (Shen Men)

Spleen pulse: ST 42 (Chong Yang)

Lung pulse: LU 8 (Jing Qu)

Kidney pulse: KD 3 (Tai Xi)

Pagina 248

Master Tung' s
Modified Indications for Points
of Traditional Fourteen Channels pagina 299
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SEASON GUA & SHU TIAN GAN DI ZHI DIRECTION ELEMENT

Summer Li, Kun (9,2) Bing Ding Si Wu Wei South Fire

Winter Kan, Gen (1,8) Ren Gui Hai Zi Chou North Water

Spring Zhen, Xun (3,4) Jia Yi Yin Mao Chen East Wood

Autumn Dui, Qian (7,6) Geng Xin Shen You Xu West Metal

The function of Earth element, 2-Kun and 8-Gen is to show, a transition state from extreme
Yang and extreme Yin, before it starts to grow other seasons (elements). Bagua classify four
seasons into 2 parts, namely Yin seasons (Autumn & Winter) and Yang seasons (Spring &
Summer). Earth element is the mystical element

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LUNG CHANNEL

LU1 &LU2 Bloodletting for scarlet fever.

LU3 & LU4 Sciatica.

LU5 & LU6 Asthma due to lung channel pathology.

LU7 & LU10 Pantalgia of bone, soreness and numbness.

LU11 Bloodletting for nose bleeding. For a child under 3 years old, just pinch this point very

gently for 5 minutes, no need to needle.

LARGE INTESTINE CHANNEL

LI17 & LI18. Bloodletting for laryngitis (throat inflammation) .

LI7 &LI8. Foot pain (contralateral) and sciatica due to lung channel pathology.

Ll4&Ll11. Headache (bilateral).

LI4 Abdominal pain due to cold pathology.

Ll14 Dizzy of hypertension (bilateral) and foot pain (contralateral).

LI11 Hand numbness.

STOMACH CHANNEL

ST3 Stick 3 fen in depth for lumbago (bilateral) and facial palsy.

ST4&ST6 Wry mouth with distorted eyes; one needle from ST4 to ST6, another needle from

ST6 to ST4.

ST5, ST9 & ST11 Bloodletting for laryngitis ( throat inflammation).

ST1 2, ST1 3 & ST1 4 Bloodletting for scarlet fever.

ST12, ST1 3, ST1 4 & ST1 5 Bloodletting for dry cholera (desire but failure to vomit, desire but
failure to drain, severe abdominal pain).

ST26 Release gas for abdominal distention.

ST31 Common cold.

ST32 Heart palpitation, heart disease.

ST36 Tonifying qi for excessive sweating.

ST36&ST37 Cholera cramps (cramps occurring when vomiting and diarrhea) and cramps.

ST37 , ST38 & ST39 Only stick to left leg for bone sag and optic atrophy.

ST43 Abdominal distention and pain.

ST35 Bloodletting for lip boil.

SPLEEN CHANNEL

SP2&SP3 Hysteroma (uterine myoma), lower abdominal distention.

SP4 Cold Pathogenic Disease, lumbago.

SP6 Strangury, impotence, premature ejaculation, lumbar vertebral pain, neck pain, dizzy,

hand numbness, diabetes, proteinuria, urinate bleeding, nephritis.

SP6, SP7 & SPS Facial nerve palsy.

SP10 Convulsion of children, pediatric night cry. (Rub the point 3-5 minutes for baby)

SP9 Hyperacidity (acid stomach), regurgitation (esophageal reflux), nephritis, diabetes,

proteinuria, dizzy and blur vision, lumbago, backache, eyebrow bone ache.
SP11 Liver disease, cirrhosis, hepatomegaly.

SP12 & SP13 Hysteroma (uterine myoma), rheumatic heart disease, general weakness.

SP18 , SP1 9 & SP20 Bloodletting to exist dark blood for bronchitis and spitting yellow sputum.

HEART CHANNEL

HT5 Sciatica along the posterior leg due to Heart channel pathology.

HT8 Relieve needle fainting and upper body numbness after sticking needle (contralateral).

SMALL INTESTINE CHANNEL

SI2 & SI3 Dizzy, tinnitus due to Heart channel pathology.

SI9 & SI10 Sciatica due to Lung channel pathology.

SI4 Eye pain.

SI13 & SI14 Lateral pain of the ems.

BLADDER CHANNEL

BL5, BL6 & BL7 Hands tremor, hemiplegia.

BL11, BL12, BL13, BL14, BL15 & BL41 , BL42, BL43, BL44 Bloodletting for hypertension, bad
cold.

BL43 Bloodletting for knee arthritis.

BL42, BL43 & BL44 Rhinitis, tinnitus, epilepsy (goat or dog pattern).

BL22&BL23 Scoliosis.

BL36&BL54 Tonsil tumor, tonsil cancer.

BL56&BL57 Posterior shoulder and back pain.

BL59 Vertebral pain, nape pain.

BL15&BL16 Vertebral protrusion.

KIDNEY CHANNEL

KI26&Kl27 Scarlet fever.

Kl20 &Kl21 Eye pain.

Kl3&KI5Drooping eyelids ( Can not open eyelids).

KI5 Nape pain, hand numbness.

PERICARDIUM CHANNEL

PC5, PC6 & PC7 Sciatica due to Heart channel pathology, pain along the central line of the
posterior leg.

PC9&LU11 Bloodletting for throat pain.

PC3 Thumb pain.

PC5&PC6 Filiform needle to promote pulse.

TRIPLE BURNER CHANNEL

TB13 Dizzy due to hypertension.

TB12 Scoliosis, vertebral pain, hand foot pain.

TB6 Constipation.

TB2&TB3 Cardiac rheumatism.

GALL BLADDER CHANNEL

GB31 &GB32 Lateral shoulder pain, , pleuritis.

GB36, GB37 & GB38 Fishbone stuck throat, breast pain.

GB41, GB42 & GB43 Sciatica due to Lung channel pathology.

LIVER CHANNEL

LV10 &LV11 Liver disease, cirrhosis, hepatitis.

LV7 Sciatica due to Kidney channel pathology, upper burner disease d/t kidney depletion.

LV6, plus LI4, SP6, LI11 Four limbs edema.

LV1 Shan qi (hernia), bloodletting firstly, then moxa 3- 7 cones, esp. for new-onset.

CONCEPTION VESSEL

REN10 , REN11 , REN12 & REN13 Stomach disease.

REN3, REN3 & ST25, LI4 Irregular menstruation.

REN3, REN4, REN6 & REN7 Lower abdominal pain, 2 cun in depth. (sticking needle after
urination)

GOVERNING VESSEL

DU20&DU19 Hand tremors due to enervation.

DU15&DU16 Bloodletting for vomit, pinch the skin firstly, then prick.

EXTRA CHANNELS & OTHERS

Bloodletting at apex of the ear for new-onset common cold, headache.

Bloodletting at TS for releasing the hit at the certain acupoints, adding BL43 for heart disease.

Bloodletting at the blue vessels at the dorsal foot for high diastolic pressure.

Bloodletting at the upper area of GV2 for occiput pain.

Bloodletting at the tip of the nose for new-onset common cold and stuff nose.

ST12 - ST15, Kl24 - Kl27 , & REN19 - REN22 Bloodletting for dry cholera (desire but failure to
vomit, desire but failure to drain, severe abdominal pain).