The meridian of the large intestine refers to the manual yang meridians, paired. The direction of energy in the meridian is centripetal. The time of maximum activity of the meridian is from 5 to 7 hours, the minimum activity is from 17 to 19 hours.
It takes the contents of the small intestine, adsorbs the remaining water, thickens the feces, removes it. In diseases, a violation of this transport and excretory functions occurs. In a state of emptiness, there is a violation of water adsorption, which results in diarrhea, rumbling in the intestines. With fullness and heat, a lot of water evaporates and constipation occurs.
Signs of redundancy: constipation, pain in the shoulder, forearm, fingers, body hot, dry mouth, pain and swelling in the abdomen, headache, deterioration in heat.
Signs of insufficiency: diarrhea, dizziness, feeling of weakness in the upper limbs, rumbling in the abdomen, bowel dysfunction, cold body. Small cough, redness of the posterior pharyngeal wall, rash, itching, improvement in warmth.
According to the classical concept, the meridian has internal and external passages.
External course – begins at the bed of the nail of the second finger of the brush. It rises along the radial side, passes between the first and second bones of the metacarpus and between the tendons of the muscles of the long and short extensors of the first finger. Further along the radial side of the forearm along the outer surface of the shoulder, it passes into the region of the shoulder joint and passes between the shoulder joint and the acromial process of the scapula. Then it goes to the back to the point da-zhui, goes around the trapezius muscle and reaches the center of the supraclavicular fossa to the point qu-pen, goes to the neck, cheek, goes to the center of the gums of the lower jaw, bends around the lips, crossing, with the meridian of the same name at the point zhen-zhong and ends at the ying-xiang point at the wings of the nose.
Internal passage – starts at the cue-pen point, enters the chest cavity, goes to the lungs, spirals around, follows the aorta, goes down through the diaphragm, goes to the large intestine, where it branches.
Includes 20 biologically active points
command points:
tonic – qu-chi;
sedative – er-jian;
accomplice – he-gu;
Lo-point – pian-li (6) 3 c higher;
analgesic – wen-lu (7);
sympathetic – V.25. da-chan-shu;
signal – E.25. tian-shu.
GI.1. Shang-yang – a broad spectrum of action, located on the radial side of the second finger of the hand, two to three millimeters outward from the corner of the nail bed, at the point of transition of the skin from the back surface to the palmar surface.
GI.2. Er-jian – sedative, located on the radial side in the cavity anterior to the metacarpophalangeal joint of the second finger of the hand at the transition point of the dorsal surface to the palmar.
GI.3. San jian – located posterior to the metacarpophalangeal joint of the second finger.
GI.4. He-gu – a wide spectrum of action, located between the first and second metacarpal bones of the hand, closer to the middle of the second metacarpal bone of the hand, in the fossa.
GI.5. Yang-si – located between the tendons of the short and long extensor of the thumb, at the level of the fold of the wrist joint on the radial side, in an anatomical snuffbox.
GI.6. Pian-li – Lo-point to the meridian of the lungs, located on the radial side from the back of the forearm three cun higher than the point G15 yang-si, where a small depression is palpated.
GI.7. Wen-lu – analgesic, located in the middle of the distance from the wrist joint to the elbow joint on the dorsal surface of the radius.
GI.8. Xia-lian – located above G17 wen-liu by two cun, the radial edge of the radius in the muscular groove.
GI.9. Shang-lian – located on the surface of the forearm from the back, in the upper quarter of the distance from the elbow joint to the wrist joint, 3 cun below the line drawn from the lateral epicondyle to the end of the elbow crease (G11 qu-chi).
GI.10. Shou-san-li – located on the radial side of the forearm of the back surface, one cun above the G19 shan-lian point and two cun below the G11 qu-chi point.
GI.11. Qu-chi is a tonic point located in the middle between the lateral epicondyle and the radial end of the fold of the elbow.
GI.12. Zhou-liao – located at the distal end of the outer edge of the humerus, above the external epicondyle and one cun above the GI11 point of qu-chi.
GI.13. Show-u-li – located at the outer edge of the humerus, three cun above the elbow bend.
G1.14. Bi-nao – located on the outer surface of the shoulder above the elbow bend by seven cun.
GI.15. Jianyu – located above the shoulder joint between the acromial process of the scapula and the large tubercle of the shoulder bone, where a depression forms when the arm is raised.
GI.16. Ju-gu – is located in the cavity formed by the clavicular-scapular joint at the height of the shoulder joint.
GI.17. Tien-ding – located on the back lower part of the edge of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, above the supraclavicular fossa, one cun below the point GI18 fu-tu.
GI.18. Fu-ty – is located outward from the upper edge of the thyroid cartilage, in the center of the projection of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, 1.5 cun behind the E9 jen-ying point.
GI.19. He-lyao – located in the middle of the distance between the wing of the nose and the edge of the upper lip, outward from the midline (from VG26 jen-zhong) by 0.5 cun.
GI.20. Ying-xiang – located at the edge of the lateral furrow of the wing of the nose, below perpendicular to the inner corner of the eye (under V1 qing-min).