02/19/2025
🌎Liver 3 is the Shu Stream and Earth point. It is also the Source Point on the Liver channel. It is arguably the most important point on the Liver channel.
🟢 Liver 3 has an extensive range of actions being able to effectively treat both excess and deficiency patterns of the Liver organ and channel.
🔄 The Liver functions in the spreading of Qi, meaning it ensures that the flow of Qi(and consequently blood) remains free, easy open, relax, and unobstructed.
Therefore, for this reason, any pattern of Liver disharmony may be accompanied by Qi stagnation.
This causes feelings of:
🔸️Pressure
🔸️Distention
🔸️Pain
Especially in areas traversed by the Liver and Gallbladder channels ( The head, eyes, throat, chest, heart, breast, uterus, ge****ls).
As well as:
🔸️Emotional stress
🔸️Menstrual issues.
📚 The name "Tai Chong" (Great Rushing /Great Pouring)
Is a reference to the point's ability to move stagnant Qi.
🟢 Liver 3 also has the ability to generate Liver Yin, which is the root of ascending Yang. And Liver Blood/Yin, the root of Liver Wind. This means Liver 3 is able to subdue excess and nourish deficiency, allowing treatment for BOTH root and manifestation of these patterns.
⬇️⬇️⬇️ COMBINATIONS ⬇️⬇️⬇️
😔 Abdominal distention leading to back pain: LV3+SP3 (Great Compendum)
🦵 Weakness in the legs: Moxa to LV3, +ST45+GB31 (Outline of Medicine)
😫 Vertex headache: LV3+DU20+LI4 (Me)
🛑 Qi stagnation: LV3+GB34
Peter Deadman's "A Manual of Acupuncture"
Tai Chong - Liver3
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