31/01/2026
TAICHONG LIV-3
Great Rushing
Shu-Stream, Yuan-Source and Earth point of the Liver channel
Ma Dan-yang Heavenly Star point
LOCATION
On the dorsum of the foot, in the hollow distal to the junction of the first and second metatarsal bones.
ACTIONS
Spreads Liver qi
Subdues Liver yang and extinguishes wind
Nourishes Liver blood and Liver yin
Clears the head and eyes
Regulates menstruation
Regulates the lower jiao
INDICATIONS
• Headache, dizziness, numbness of the head, opistho-tonos, contraction of the sinews of the hands and feet, epilepsy, childhood fright wind, deviation of the mouth, tetany, hypertension.
• Distention and pain of the lateral costal region, inability to catch the breath all day long, sighing. swelling of the axilla, pain of the Liver and Heart, Heart pain with a wiry pulse, distention of the Heart, breast pain, epigastric or abdominal pain, perium-bilical pain, pain and fullness of the hypogastrium, shan disorder, sudden shan disorder in children, swollen testicles, retracted testicles, unilateral sagging of the testicle, pain of the ge****ls.
• Insomnia, easily fearful.
• Blurred vision, cloudy vision, redness, swelling and pain of the eyes.
• Cracked lips, swelling of the lips, distention of the throat, pain of the throat, dry throat with desire to drink, internal heat with thirst, low grade fever, death-like green complexion.
• Amenorrhoea,
irregular menstruation, incessant
uterine bleeding, uterine prolapse, ceaseless and profuse sweating after childbirth, insufficient lactation.
• Enuresis, difficult urination, retention of urine, painful urinary dysfunction, the five types of painful urinary dysfunction, deficiency-taxation oedema.
• Jaundice, vomiting, vomiting blood, nausea, consti-pation, difficult defecation, borborygmus, diarrhoea containing undigested food, diarrhoea with thin stools, bloody diarrhoea and dysenteric disorder, blood in the stools.
• Emaciation, insufficiency of essence (semen) in men, seminal emission, insufficiency of qi.
• Lumbar pain radiating to the lower abdomen, lumbar pain, pain of the inner and outer knee, pain of the lower leg, flaccidity and weakness of the legs, inability to walk, cold sensation in the knees and feet, cold feet, pain of the inner malleolus, swelling of the el-bow, contraction of the five fingers.
