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Balance Method Point Solver

Dr. Tan's six systems and the mirror and image formats, run as rules over the classical channel points. Name the channel and region of a complaint; the solver returns the channels that balance it and a ranked list of distal points, each with the system that chose it and its cautions.

Front
Back

Worked cases

Bladder channel · Thigh

The six systems

System Treating channel Look at Side
1. Same Chinese name Small Intestine (SI)
Upper arm · Mirror (arm ↔ leg)
Forearm · Reversed mirror
opposite side
2. Branching (Bie Jing / Zang Fu Bie Tong) Lung (LU)
Upper arm · Mirror (arm ↔ leg)
Forearm · Reversed mirror
either side
3. Interior–exterior pair Kidney (KI)
Thigh · Same segment, opposite side
opposite side
4. Chinese clock opposite Lung (LU)
Upper arm · Mirror (arm ↔ leg)
Forearm · Reversed mirror
either side
5. Chinese clock neighbour Small Intestine (SI)
Upper arm · Mirror (arm ↔ leg)
Forearm · Reversed mirror
opposite side
6. Same channel Bladder (BL)
Thigh · Same segment, opposite side
opposite side

Ranked points (7)

  1. 1
    LU3 Tianfu Lung · Upper arm · either side score 2.0
    2. Branching (Bie Jing / Zang Fu Bie Tong) 4. Chinese clock opposite Mirror (arm ↔ leg) Window of Heaven point
    • Selected by 2 systems (2, 4)
  2. 2
    LU4 Xiabai Lung · Upper arm · either side score 2.0
    2. Branching (Bie Jing / Zang Fu Bie Tong) 4. Chinese clock opposite Mirror (arm ↔ leg)
    • Selected by 2 systems (2, 4)
  3. 3
    LU6 Kongzui Lung · Forearm · either side score 2.0
    2. Branching (Bie Jing / Zang Fu Bie Tong) 4. Chinese clock opposite Reversed mirror Xi-Cleft point
    • Selected by 2 systems (2, 4)
  4. 4
    LU7 Lieque Lung · Forearm · either side score 2.0
    2. Branching (Bie Jing / Zang Fu Bie Tong) 4. Chinese clock opposite Reversed mirror Luo-Connecting point Confluent point of the Ren Mai Command point of the head and nape
    • Selected by 2 systems (2, 4)
  5. 5
    SI7 Zhizheng Small Intestine · Forearm · opposite side score 2.0
    1. Same Chinese name 5. Chinese clock neighbour Reversed mirror Luo-Connecting point
    • Selected by 2 systems (1, 5)
  6. 6
    BL36 Chengfu Bladder · Thigh · opposite side score 1.0
    6. Same channel Same segment, opposite side
    • Selected by system 6 (Same channel)
  7. 7
    BL37 Yinmen Bladder · Thigh · opposite side score 1.0
    6. Same channel Same segment, opposite side
    • Selected by system 6 (Same channel)
Body map, front: candidate points numbered by rank 5. SI7 4. LU7 3. LU6 2. LU4 1. LU3
Fig. — front After Albinus, 1747
Body map, front: candidate points numbered by rank 5. SI7 4. LU7 3. LU6 2. LU4 1. LU3

Candidates, front · Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum, 1747

Body map, back: candidate points numbered by rank 7. BL37 6. BL36
Fig. — back After Albinus, 1747
Body map, back: candidate points numbered by rank 7. BL37 6. BL36

Candidates, back · Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum, 1747

No point in the mapped segment: KI at Thigh (Interior–exterior pair);

Structural selection only. Needling depth, technique and contraindications remain the practitioner's; every point above shows its corpus cautions. Sources: Tan, Twelve and Twelve in Acupuncture (1991); Tan, Acupuncture 1, 2, 3 (2007).