ACUPUNCTURE
Ling Dao: TCM Acupoint Guide
LINGDAO
Name
Ling Dao (Lingdao)
Location
With the palm facing upward, 1.5 cun above the transverse crease of the wrist on the radial side of the tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris muscle.
Needling
- Puncture perpendicularly, 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
- Oblique proximal or distal insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Straight insertion, 0.5 to 0.8 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Metal point
- Jing-river point
Actions
- Calms the shen
- Benefits the voice
- Relaxes the muscles and tissues
- Removes obstruction from the channel
Indications
- Rigidity
- Arthritis
- Inability to bend the hands or wrists
- Loss of sensation
- Sudden inability to speak
- Fear
- Sadness
- Restless zang disorder
- Ice-cold feeling in the bones and marrow
- Cardiac pain
- Anxiety
- Weakened, broken or suppressed spirit
- Contraction of the elbow and arm
- Muscle spasms
- Neuralgia of the ulnar nerve
- Arthritis of the elbow
- Itching of the hand
- Aphasia with stiffening of the tongue
- Convulsions
- Chest pain
- Retching
- Nausea
- Throat abscess
- Redness and swelling of the eyes
- Dizziness
- Blurred vision
- Hysteria
- Psychosis
- Restlessness
- Melancholy
- Incoherent thinking or speech
- Spasmodic pain of the elbow and arm
- Clonic spasm
- Swelling and pain of the fingers
Notes
This point has more of a mental effect than physical effect. Restless zang disorder is characterized by unpredictable emotional responses, melancholy, disturbed behavior, restlessness, loss of voice, insomnia and possibly mania.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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