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POINT: LI-11 (LARGE INTESTINE-11)  

English: Crooked Pond
Also Known As: Pool at the Crook
Corner Pond
Crooked Pool
Guitui (Ghost Leg)
  • When the elbow is flexed, the point is in the depression at the lateral end of the transverse cubital crease midway between LU-5 Chize and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus.
  • Puncture perpendicularly 1 to 1.5 c.un.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Join to HT-3 Shaohai, if desired (2-2.5 cun). Sensation: local distention and soreness, sometimes an electric numb sensation extending to the shoulder or fingers.
  • Oblique insertion towards the hand 1.5 to 2.5 cun. If after obtaining Qi, the needle is twirled rapidly, the sensation can be perceived along the forearm to the shoulder.
  • Angled toward the elbow joint 0.5 to 1 cun, foe paralysis of the upper limb. Sensation: numb, electric sensation extending to the fingertips.
  • He-Sea Point of the LI channel
  • Earth point of the LI channel
  • Tonification point
  • Reinforcing point of the Large Intestine channel
  • Upper Meeting point
  • Mental precision point
  • Antispasmodic point
  • Ma Dan-Yang Heavenly Star point
  • Ghost point
  • Alleviates Exterior conditions
  • Dispels Wind, Wind-Heat and Wind-Dryness
  • Alleviates Dampness
  • Alleviates itching
  • Reduces fever
  • Clears Fire
  • Clears Heat
  • Clears Summerheat
  • Cools Blood Heat
  • Moistens Dryness
  • Stimulates sweating
  • Transforms Damp-Heat
  • Transforms Damp-Summerheat
  • Invigorates the Blood
  • Facilitates Qi and Blood flow
  • Regulates and moistens the Large Intestines
  • Regulates the Lungs (especially Lung Qi)
  • Drains pathogenic influences from the Lungs
  • Softens hard masses
  • Benefits the shoulders
  • Twelfth of thirteen Ghost Points for the treatment of psychosis and epilepsy
  • Removes obstruction from the joints
  • General tonifying effect
  • Sore throat
  • Toothache
  • Redness and pain of the eye
  • Scrofula
  • Goiter
  • Boils
  • Carbuncles
  • Urticaria due to Wind-Heat
  • All eye disorders
  • Pleurisy
  • Intercostal neuralgia
  • Bronchitis
  • Hay fever
  • Stress induced asthma
  • Pain in all of the upper joints
  • Arthritis of the upper limb
  • Windstroke
  • Qi-type painful urinary dysfunction
  • Heat Bi
  • Common cold due to Wind-Heat
  • Hypertension due to Yang Excess
  • Atrophy (Wei) syndrome of the upper body
  • Scabies
  • Erysipelas
  • Eczema due to Wind-Heat
  • All skin disorders due to Blood Heat or Damp-Heat
  • Herpes zoster
  • Infantile paralysis
  • Psoriasis
  • Measles
  • Mumps
  • Swollen, painful pharynx
  • Swollen, painful larynx
  • Hand and elbow weakness
  • Prolonged fever with severe sore throat
  • High fever that does not recede
  • Neuralgia of the arm and shoulder
  • Wind in the arm
  • Wind rash
  • Hives
  • Amenorrhea
  • Nodular growths on the neck
  • Cerebral hemorrhage
  • Rheumatism of the knee
  • Insect bites
  • Acne
  • Cystitis
  • Wind-Cold with residual fever that does not recede
  • Dry hot skin
  • Scaly skin
  • Lachrymation
  • Poor memory
  • Pain and itching of the whole body as is bitten by insects
  • Emaciation and weakness of the elbow
  • Menstrual disorders
  • Pain and swelling of the ankle
  • Constipation
  • Epilepsy
  • Depression
  • Insanity
  • Torticollis
  • Aphonia
  • Anemia
  • Motor impairment of the upper extremities
  • Shoulder pain and stiffness
  • Rheumatic pain of the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints
  • Abdominal pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Dysentery
  • Acute diarrhea with fever
  • Vomiting
  • Febrile diseases
  • Earache
  • Malarial disorders
  • Intestinal abscess
  • Appendicitis
  • Allergies
  • Heatstroke
  • Convulsions
  • Hemiplegia
  • Edema of the upper extremities
  • Acute lower back pain
  • Deficient menstruation
  • Menopausal hot flashes
  • Lassitude
  • Depression
  • Blurred vision
  • Throat Bi with swelling
  • Throat blockage
  • Tonsillitis
  • Paralysis
  • Pain in the arm with muscular flaccidity
  • Cannot extend or flex arm
  • Swelling and pain in the hand and arm
  • Swelling, redness and pain in the elbow
  • Abscess in the process of formation
  • Dry, parched skin
  • Little menstrual flow
  • Hemiplegia
  • Madness with pain and itching
  • Runny nose
  • Urethritis
  • Loose stools
  • Thirst with sweating on drinking
  • Pain in the front of the ear
  • Manic disorders
  • Tongue thrusting
  • Shingles
  • Clove sores on the back
  • Clonic spasm
  • Atrophy disorder of the lower limbs

HT-9
Shaochong

ST-36
Zusanli

SP-6
Sanyinjiao

Fever

Stimulates digestion and general metabolism

Hypertension

Diseases of the uterus

General inflammation

LI-4
Hegu
M-HN-3
Yintang

ST-36
Zusanli

ST-9
Renying

DU-14
Dazhui
M-UE-1
Shixuan

Measles

Hypertension

High fever

LI-4
Hegu
LI-7
Wenliu

LI-4
Hegu

LI-15
Jianyu

HT-7
Shenmen
LU-10
Yuji

Toothache

Soreness and pain in the hand and arm

Hemiplegia following Windstroke

Clonic spasm of the upper limb

Hematemesis

DU-14
Dazhui
LI-3
Taichong
ST-36
Zusanli
LI-4
Hegu

GB-39
Xuangzhong
ST-36
Zusanli

DU-14
Dazhui
KI-1
Yongquan
LI-4
Hegu

LU-10
Yuji
SI-7
Zhizheng
LI-4
Hegu
HT-3
Shaohai
SI-4
Wangu

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

Injury by cold with great Heat that does not recede (reducing method)

Manic raving, fear and fright

DU-14
Dazhui
SI-3
Houxi

DU-14
Dazhui
SI-3
Houxi
PC-5
Jianshi

ST-5
Daying
SI-18
Quanliao
GB-2
Tinghui

Malaria with much Cold and little Heat

Malaria with much Heat and little Cold

Toothache with aversion to cold

GB-34
Yanglingquan

GB-30
Huantiao

GB-34
Yanglingquan

LI-4
Hegu

Hemiplegia

Hemiplegia

Diseases of the head, face, ears, eyes, mouth and nose

LI-15
Jianyu
GB-39
Xuangzhong
KI-3
Taixi
ST-36
Zusanli
LI-4
Hegu
UB-60
Kunlun

LU-5
Chize
SJ-4
Yangchi
LI-4
Hegu
SJ-3
Zhongzhu

SJ-1
Guanchong
LI-10
Shousanli
SJ-3
Zhongzhu
SI-5
Yanggu
LU-5
Chize

Windstroke with one-sided withering and incessant pain

Contraction of the arm with tightness of the sinews of both hands

Pain in the elbow, maybe Cold

LI-8
Xialian
GB-21
Jianjing

SJ-5
Waiguan
SJ-10
Tianjing

SJ-15
Tianliao

Pain and Cold of the arm

Atrophy disorder

Numbness of the arm

Pain and heaviness of the shoulder with inability to raise the arm

LI-10
Shousanli
SJ-5
Waiguan
SJ-3
Zhongzhu

LU-5
Chize

GB-21
Jianjing

Hypertension

Contraction of the elbow with pain

Pain of the forearm

LI-10
Shousanli
SI-3
Houxi

ST-9
Renying

DU-20
Baihui
LIV-3
Taichong

ST-37
Shangjuxu
ST-25
Tianshu

Pain of the forearm

Hypertension

Bacillary dysentery

  • This is the best point for chronic constipation.
  • This point treats internal devils.
  • It is excellent for providing stability in epilepsy, depression and insanity.
  • This point brings stability to the Large Intestine and is especially good for alternating diarrhea and constipation.
  • This point clears out accumulated mental rubbish causing a person's thinking to be muddled.
  • This is an antibiotic point. It can be used before surgeries to decrease the likelihood of post-op infection.
  • Although this point does have some actions on the Large Intestine, for disorders of the Large Intestine, the lower he-Sea point of the Large Intestine, ST-37 Shangjuxu is preferred.
  • this point is often in Liver Fire patterns with hypertension.