LU 3 Acupuncture Point - Tian Fu - Lung Meridian
- Chinese Name Tian Fu
- English Name Celestial Storehouse
- Location: 3 cun below the axillary fold on the radial side of the biceps brachii tendon.
- Precautions: No Moxa.
- Point Associations:
- Window of the Sky Point
- Actions & Effects:
- Window of the Sky Point, regulates head/body Qi flow - goiters, swellings in the neck.
- Lung related spirit disharmonies - stress induced asthma, poor memory, fuzzy/muddled thinking, depression, "floating corpse ghost talk", "melancholy crying ghost talk" (classical descriptions possibly for seeing ghost, talking about ghosts a/or people who have died, being in constant long-term grief about someone who has passed, etc.).
- LV invading the LU pathologies.
- Generally for heat related issues whether from excess or deficiency - nosebleed, coughing blood.
- Lung Meridian Points (11):
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Sources and More Information
The information on our site is drawn from our own lecture notes and clinical experience. The following lecture notes were used within this section:
- Ferro, Barbara: New England School of Acupuncture, Point Location Lecture Notes
- Harstein, Rachel: New England School of Acupuncture, Actions & Effects Lecture Notes
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