HT 5 Acupuncture Point - Tong Li - Heart Meridian
- Chinese Name Tong Li
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English Name Connecting Li
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Location: 1 cun above the wrist crease on the radial side of the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon, on the HT 3 - HT 7 line.
- Point Associations:
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Luo Connecting Point
- Actions & Effects:
- Speech a/or vocal disorders - aphasia (post-stroke), stiff tongue, stuttering, sudden loss of voice, sore throat.
- Spirit disorders and related physical manifestations, anxiety w/palpitations, arrhythmia, nervousness, depression - although the point is generally not used for emotional disorders involving sleep such as insomnia, HT 7 is used more often for these more "physical" manifestations.
- Excessive bleeding w/ menstruation from heat in the Blood.
- Heat effecting the SI and leading to urinary symptoms - incontinence, enuresis.
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Local point for wrist, elbow and/or hand pain - perhaps more so for weakness than simple pain.
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Heart Meridian Points (9):
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Sources and More Information
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Listed in our conditions treated section under »
- Anxiety
- Arrhythmia (Palpitations)
- Depression
- Elbow Pain
- Hand, Fingers Pain
- Loss of Voice
- Menorrhagia (Heavy Menstrual Bleeding)
- Muscle Weakness
- Palpitations
- Panic Attack
- Sore Throat
- Stroke (CVA)
- Stuttering
- Wrist Pain
Listed in our tcm diagnosis section under »
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