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POINT: LIV-2 (LIVER-2)  

English: Moving Between
Also Known As: Temporary In-Between
Walking Space Between
Walk Between
Column in Between
Active Internal
Walking Space
Travel Between
  • On the dorsum of the foot, between the first and second toes, proximal to the margin of the web, at the junction of the red and white skin.
  • Located between the first and second toes , proximal to the margin of the web.
  • On the dorsum of the foot, between the first and second toes, 0.5 cun proximal to the margin of the web.
  • Puncture obliquely 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Slanted insertion 0.5 to 1 cun, causing distention and soreness extending through the foot.
  • 0.5 to 1 cun, obliquely towards the heel, or perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 0.8 cun.
  • Ying-Spring point
  • Fire point
  • Sedation point
  • Clears Liver Fire
  • Subdues Liver Yang
  • Cools the Blood
  • Subdues Interior Wind
  • Spreads Liver Qi
  • Soothes the Liver
  • Pacifies Liver Wind
  • Clears Heat
  • Stops bleeding
  • Benefits the Lower Jiao
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Red face
  • Headache
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • Constipation
  • Red and swollen eyes
  • A red tongue with a thick yellow coat
  • A Wiry and rapid pulse
  • Migraine headaches
  • Epilepsy
  • Acute convulsions
  • Childhood convulsions
  • Cough due to Liver Fire
  • Hypochondriac pain and distention
  • In severe cases the person is unable to turn the body and has a sensation of swelling and fullness below the ribs
  • Breathlessness
  • Angers easily
  • Easily agitated
  • Dry eyes
  • Eye pain
  • Dry and irritated throat
  • Menorrhagia
  • Hysteria
  • Insanity
  • Insomnia
  • Gastric pain
  • Swollen knee
  • Neurasthenia
  • First aid for cramping
  • First aid for spasms
  • First aid for uterine retention
  • Jaundice with a slight fever
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Dry throat and mouth
  • Diaphragmatic spasms
  • Early menstruation due to Heat in the Blood
  • Amenorrhea
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Red and white leukorrhea
  • Glaucoma
  • Orchitis
  • Night sweats
  • Cloudy urine
  • Urethral discharge
  • Dribbling urine
  • Headache with blurred vision and dizziness
  • Eye diseases
  • Epistaxis
  • Thirst
  • Burning Heat of the face
  • Dark green complexion (death-like green color)
  • Contracted sinews
  • Windstroke
  • Deviation of the mouth
  • Tetany
  • Itching of the genitals
  • Sudden involuntary erection
  • The seven kinds of Shan disorder
  • Cold Shan disorder
  • Painful urinary dysfunction
  • Enuresis
  • Cold Damp diarrhea
  • Counterflow Cold of the four limbs
  • Wasting and thirsting disorder with a desire to drink
  • Malaria
  • Lotus flower tongue in children
  • Heat in the shin
  • Leg Qi with redness and swelling
  • Severe anxiety
  • Hemorrhage during menstruation
  • Diabetes
  • Loves to drink
  • Peritonitis
  • Vomiting blood when coughing
  • Acute and chronic gastritis
  • Sensation of fullness and contracture in the four limbs
  • Swollen knee
  • Pain and swelling of the knee joint
  • Renal pain preventing bending forwards or backwards
  • Night sweats
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Urethral discharge
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Hemoptysis
  • Retention of urine
  • Swelling of the extremities
  • Cramping
  • Pain in the flanks and chest
  • Swelling of the lower abdomen
  • Hypertension
  • Pain in the penis
  • Lumbago
  • Swelling and pain in the epigastrium
  • Facial paralysis
  • Calm madness
  • Dyspnea
  • Cold limbs
  • Hiccups
  • Vision problems
  • Tearing
  • Dysuria
  • Direct Attack of Wind
  • Apoplexy
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Swelling of the lower abdomen in women
  • Menoralgia
  • Abdominal distention
  • Dizziness
  • Blurred vision
  • Night blindness
  • Vertigo
  • Congestion
  • Swelling and pain of the eye
  • Hernia
  • Painful urination
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Seizures
  • Convulsions
  • Mumps
  • Nausea
  • Tinnitus
  • Intercostal neuralgia
  • Chest fullness and pain
  • Colic
  • Genital pain
  • Irascibility
  • Psychosis
  • Urticaria
  • Eczema
  • Clutching sensation in the throat
  • Heat in the body
  • Propensity to anger
  • Sadness
  • Propensity to fright
  • Closes eyes and has no desire to look
  • Excessive fright with little strength
  • Propensity to fear as if seeing ghosts
  • Palpitations
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Childhood fright Wind
  • Early menstruation
  • Abdominal masses in women
  • Difficult lactation
  • Pain of the Heart and Liver
  • Terrible pain in the Heart and Liver with a greenish complexion (pain impairs respiration)
  • Pain of the chest and back
  • Pain below the Heart
  • Rib pain
  • Much sighing
  • Inability to catch the breath all day long
  • Lumbar pain with difficulty flexing and extending the back
  • Pain of the inner aspect of the leg
  • Pain and swelling of the instep
  • Prolonged menstruation
  • Anuria
  • Great thirst - the more one drinks the thirstier one gets
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Violent diarrhea
  • Paludism with cough due to Liver Qi problems
  • Infantile meningeal reaction due to Wind with a powdery or discolored complexion

GB-20
Fengchi
LI-4
Hegu

 

KI-1
Yongquan

LIV-3
Taichong

Glaucoma

Thirst (severe thirst of wasting and thirsting)

Emaciation

Parched throat with thirst

Pain of the Liver and Heart

Pain of the Heart with a green complexion like death

Inability to catch the breath all day long

DU-24
Shenting

UB-1
Jingming

HT-6
Yinxi

Lachrymation

Liver Qi night blindness

Heart pain

DU-8
Jinsuo
REN-2
Qugu
KI-10
Yingu

LIV-8
Ququan

GB-25
Jingmen

Fright epilepsy

Mad walking

Madness

Retention of urine

Pain of the penis

Lumbar pain with inability to stand for long or to move

GB-30
Huantiao
GB-31
Fengshi

UB-39
Weiyang
UB-37
Yinmen
SP-3
Taibai
SP-9
Yinlingquan

GB-31
Fengshi

UB-40
Weizhong

Lumbar pain that radiates down the leg

Lumbar pain with inability to bend and extend

Lumbar pain with difficulty moving

UB-10
Tianzhu

 

 

Inability of the legs to support the body

 

 

  • This is the best point to clear Liver Fire.
  • It is used to sedate all Excess Liver patterns.
  • This point affects the pancreas.