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LI-05 (Yang Xi) Yang Ravine

Acupuncture Points on the Large Intestine Channel of Hand Yang Ming

  • Acupuncture Point Five Elements Jing-River & Fire Point
Clears heat and alleviates pain
  • Clears yangming fire
  • Calms the spirit
  • Benefits the wrist joint
    • Headache, redness, pain and swelling of the eye, toothache, sore throat, pain of the wrist.

    Where is LI-05 located?

    • A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 106): On the radial side of the wrist, in the centre of the hollow formed by the tendons of extensor pollicis longus and brevis (anatomical snuffbox).
    • Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 140): On the radial side of the wrist. When the thumb is tilted upward, it is in the depression between the tendons m. extensor pollicis longus and brevis.
    Puncture perpendicularly 0.3-0.5 inch. Moxibustion is applicable.

    Sources & References

    Compiled and edited by Thomas Dehli, Founder & Editor, Sacred Lotus

    The information here is referenced from numerous sources — teachers, practitioners, class notes from Five Branches University, the books below, and the published research literature, with citations given as resolvable PubMed identifiers. Where sources disagree, I have flagged the discrepancies directly. If facts couldn't be verified, I have left them out. How we source our content.

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