Balance Method — System 2: Interior–Exterior Pairs
Star表裡經 (Biǎo Lǐ Jīng)
Dr. Richard Tan, Balance Method.
Treatment Principle
Needle the interior–exterior partner of the affected channel, imaging the location of the complaint onto it.
Indications
Method
Pairings: Lung with Large Intestine; Spleen with Stomach; Heart with Small Intestine; Kidney with Bladder; Pericardium with Triple Energiser; Liver with Gallbladder. Applied on the same limb as an ipsilateral image, or on the opposite limb as a contralateral one, depending on which gives the better correspondence.
⚠ Cautions
As with all six systems, this selects points; it does not replace diagnosis.
About
The second correspondence system, built on the interior–exterior (biao li) pairing that every practitioner already knows from organ theory.
Rationale
The interior–exterior pair is the most intimate relationship in the channel system: the two share a Luo connection, their organs are functionally coupled, and their channels run adjacent aspects of the same limb. Tan's use of it for point selection follows directly — a disturbance on one is reachable from the other, and the pairing has the practical advantage that the partner channel is on the same limb, which is useful when only one side is accessible.
Clinical Notes
Particularly useful where the presentation has an organ component as well as a channel one — Stomach-channel leg pain in a patient who also has epigastric symptoms, for instance, where the Spleen pairing addresses both.
Sources
- Tan, Richard Teh-Fu. Acupuncture 1, 2, 3. San Diego, 2007.
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