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Home > Education > Theory > Four Point Needle Technique

Four Point Needle Technique

By Dr. Ma

Step One:

Determine which organ system is out of balance

Step Two:

Determine whether the imbalance is excess (shi) or deficiency (xu)

Step Three:

(for deficiency syndromes)

Tonify the horary point on the mother organ's channel.
Horary means the point's element and then channels element are the same. i.e. the wood point on the wood channel, or the fire point on the fire channel, the water point on the water channel, the earth point on the earth channel.
Tonify the mother organ's element point on the affected channel.
Sedate the horary point on the "controlling" organ's channel.
Sedate the controlling organ's element point on the affected organ.

(for excess syndromes)

Tonify the horary point on the controlling organ's channel.
Tonify the controlling point on the affected channel.
Sedate the horary point on the "son" channel.
Sedate the son point on the affected channel.

Tonification prescriptions for conditions of deficiency.

Meridian	Tonify		Sedate
Meridian	Horary Pt. on Mother Channel	Mother Pt. on affected channel	Horary Pt. on controlling channel	Control Pt. on affected channel
LUNG	Sp 3	Lu 9	Ht 8	Lu 10
LARGE INTESTINE	St 36	LI 11	SI 5	LI 5
STOMACH	SI 5	St 41	GB 41	St 43
SPLEEN	Ht 8	Sp 2	Liv 1	Sp 1
HEART	Liv 1	Ht 9	Kid 10	Ht 3
SMALL INTESTINE	GB 41	SI 3	UB 66	SI 2
URINARY BLADDER	LI 1	UB 67	St 36	UB 40
KIDNEY	Lu 8	Kid 7	Sp 3	Kid 3
PERICARDIUM	Liv 1	P 9	Kid 10	P 3
SAN JIAO	GB 41	SJ 3	UB 66	SJ 2
GALLBLADDER	UB 66	GB 43	LI 1	GB 44
LIVER	Kid 10	Liv 8	LU 8	Liv 4

Sedation prescriptions for conditions of excess.

Meridian	Tonify		Sedate
Meridian	Horary Pt. on controlling channel	Control Pt. on affected channel	Horary Pt. on Son channel	Son Pt. on affected channel
LUNG	Ht 8	Lu 10	Kid 10	Lu 5
LARGE INTESTINE	SI 5	LI 5	UB 66	LI 2
STOMACH	GB 41	St 43	LI 1	St 45
SPLEEN	Liv 1	Sp 1	LU 8	Sp 5
HEART	Kid 10	Ht 3	Sp 3	Ht 7
SMALL INTESTINE	UB 66	SI 2	St 36	SI 8
URINARY BLADDER	St 36	UB 40	GB 41	UB 65
KIDNEY	Sp 3	Kid 3	Liv 1	Kid 1
PERICARDIUM	Kid 10	P 3	Sp 3	P 7
SAN JIAO	UB 66	SJ 2	St 36	SJ 10
GALLBLADDER	LI 1	GB 44	SI 5	GB 38
LIVER	Lu 8	Liv 4	Ht 8	Liv 2

Horary Points

	Shu Point	Well	Spring	Stream	River	Sea
Wood Organs	Liver	1	2	3	4	8
Wood Organs	Gall Bladder	44	43	41	38	34
Fire Organs	Heart	9	8	7	4	3
	Small Intestine	1	2	3	5	8
	Pericardium	9	8	7	5	3
	San Jiao	1	2	3	6	10
Earth Organs:	Spleen	1	2	3	5	9
Earth Organs:	Stomach	45	44	43	41	36
Metal Organs:	Lung	11	10	9	8	5
Metal Organs:	Large Intestine	1	2	3	5	11
Water Organs:	Kidney	1	2	3	7	10
Water Organs:	Urinary Bladder	67	66	65	60	40

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