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LI4 · 合谷 · Large Intestine

Quchi and Hegu LI11 and LI4 on the yang-ming channel — for headache, facial and throat complaints, skin ... shoulder or down to the fingers. LI4 Hegu Yuan-Source point of the Large Intestine; releases the exterior

Four Gates LI4 and LV3 needled bilaterally — the standard combination for moving stagnant qi and blood throughout ... that stagnation anywhere in the body can move. LI4 Hegu Yuan-Source of the Large Intestine; governs

Points Five points needled bilaterally — LI4, LI11, ST36, SP6 and LU7 — as a single restorative prescription ... whole person rather than a named complaint. LI4 Hegu Moves qi and blood; opens the exterior LI11 Quchi

four most-used points in practice. With LI4 it forms the Four Gates — the standard prescription for moving ... dorsalis pedis pulse, and is often tender. With LI4 forms the "Four Gates" to strongly move

from an acute sore throat, where LU11 and LI4 are the choice. The Ren Mai pair suits

junction of the two bones — proximal to LI4, against the angle where the metacarpals meet. Slide proximally from ... LI4 along the groove between the first and second metacarpals until the finger meets the junction

classical regulator of sweating: reinforced with reduced LI4 to stop sweating, reduced with reinforced LI4 to promote

opening combination. The Triple Energiser's answer to LI4 — the general exterior-releasing and pain-relieving point

palmar skin meet. Insert perpendicularly, directed toward LI4, 0.5–0.8 cun, through abductor digiti minimi into the space ... wrist and SI3 perpendicularly toward LI4 0.5–0.8 cun. The book gives no retention time or moxibustion instructions

Confluent point of the Yin Wei Mai Alongside LI4 and ST36, one of the three most-used points

clearing heat and for skin disease. With LI4 and SP10 it is the core of the standard heat