ACUPUNCTURE
Wen Liu: TCM Acupoint Guide
WENLIU
Name
Wen Liu (Wenliu)
Location
On the forearm, 5 cun above LI-5 Yangxi, on the line connecting LI-5 Yangxi and LI-11 Quchi.
Needling
- Puncture perpendicularly, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Straight insertion, 1 to 1.5 cun.
- Transverse-oblique insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Xi-cleft (accumulating) point
- Gueki point
Actions
- Clears heat
- Detoxifies poison
- Stops pain
- Expels wind
- Benefits the throat
- Moderates acute conditions
- Harmonizes and regulates the intestines and stomach
- Clears Yangming fire
- Calms the shen
Indications
- Speech difficulties
- Tongue thrusting
- Continuous belching
- Absolute despair
- Ulcers of the hand and face
- Ulcerated large intestine
- Arthritis due to cold
- Sore throat
- Mouth and tongue swelling, pain and inflammation
- Glossitis
- Swollen tonsils
- Redness, swelling and pain of the face
- Carbuncles
- Furuncles
- Borborygmus with abdominal pain
- Frequent laughter
- Raving
- Seeing ghosts
- Clove sores
- Stomatitis
- Abdominal pain and distention
- Borborygmus
- Belching
- Epistaxis
- Headache
- Headache with fever
- Facial edema
- Swelling and heaviness of the extremities
- Shoulder and arm ache
- Parotitis
- Facial paralysis
- Deviation of the face and mouth
- Pain of the teeth and mouth
- Loss of voice
- Vomiting of watery saliva and foam
- Sudden swelling of the extremities
- Pain and debility in raising the shoulder and arm
Notes
Use lots of moxa to warm the spirit. Warms the whole person.
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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