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POINT: LU-5 (LUNG-5)

English: Cubit Marsh
Also Known As: Outside Marsh
Foot Marsh
Foot Swamp
Pulse in the Arm
  • With the arm slightly bent at the elbow, this point can be found on the transverse crease of the elbow, just lateral to the tendon of the biceps muscle.
  • With the elbow slightly flexed, locate the point on the transverse cubital crease on the radial side of the tendon of the biceps brachii muscle.
  • On the cubital crease of the elbow, in the depression of the radial side of the biceps brachii.
    Note: locate slightly lateral to the tendon rather than immediately next to it.
    Note: locate and needle with the elbow slightly flexed, avoiding the cubital vein.
  • Straight insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness or an electric, numb sensation extending toward the forearm.
  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Water point
  • He-Sea point
  • Sedation point
  • Uniting point
  • Disperses Lung Heat
  • Descends Rebellious Qi
  • Expels Phlegm from the Lungs
  • Benefits the Bladder
  • Regulates the water passages
  • Activates the channel
  • Relaxes the sinews
  • Alleviates pain
  • Stops bleeding
  • The patient feels bogged down
  • The patient feels like he/she is drowning
  • The head feels as if it is full of water
  • Pulmonary edema
  • Weak Bladder
  • Pleurisy
  • Fear
  • Grief
  • Depression
  • Weeping
  • Tendency toward sadness
  • Spasms in the arm muscles
  • Difficulty lifting the arm
  • Shortness of breath
  • Pain and stiffness of the lumbar region
  • Sensation of fullness in the chest
  • Infantile convulsions
  • Asthma
  • Bronchitis
  • Erysipelas
  • Chest pain
  • Upper Jiao wasting and thirsting
  • Atrophy syndrome due to Lung Heat
  • Dry cough
  • Mastitis
  • Yellow sputum
  • Cough with Excess white sticky Phlegm and chilliness
  • Coughing Phlegm
  • Wheezing
  • Agitation and fullness of the chest
  • Spitting Blood
  • Epistaxis
  • Hematemesis
  • Enuresis
  • Frequent urination
  • Coldness of the shoulder
  • Pain of the upper arm and shoulder
  • Inability to raise the arm to the head
  • Wandering Bi of the elbow and upper arm
  • Restricted movement of the elbow
  • Difficulty opening and extending the hand
  • Crane's knee swelling and pain
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis
  • Oppression
  • Muscular spasms of the forearm
  • Cholera
  • Hemiplegia
  • Quadriplegia
  • Madness
  • Intercostal inflammation
  • Kidney pain
  • The patient feels parched
  • The patient feels bone dry inside
  • Rigidity and spasms of the spine
  • Bronchitis with much mucus
  • Palpitations
  • Madness
  • Pneumonia
  • Rheumatism of the throat and neck
  • Bouts of sneezing
  • Wind after perspiration
  • Wind predominant Bi
  • Affliction of the throat
  • Dyspnea
  • Dry mouth
  • Cough
  • Intermittent fever and chills
  • Sudden swelling of the four limbs
  • Hemoptysis
  • Swelling and pain of the throat
  • Swelling and pain of the elbow and arm
  • Childhood nutritional impairment
  • Vomiting
  • Psoriasis
  • Afternoon fever due to Lung Yin Deficiency
  • Thirst
  • Whooping cough
  • Retention of urine due to Obstruction of the Lungs by Damp-Phlegm
  • Tidal fever
  • Taxation fever
  • Shivering
  • Malaria
  • Diarrhea
  • Abdominal distention
  • Pain of the lateral costal area
  • Heart pain
  • Agitation of the Heart
  • Sobbing with grief
  • Acute and chronic childhood fright Wind
  • Clonic spasm
  • Elbow pain
  • The five types of lumbar pain
  • Tennis elbow
  • Fullness of the Lungs
  • Pharynx and larynx swollen and painful
  • Shoulder and scapula neuralgia
  • Breast abscess
  • Facial nerve paralysis
  • Injury by Cold
  • General loss of sensitivity
  • Atony of the Bladder
  • Stiffness of the vertebral column

LI-11
Quchi

SI-1
Shaoze

DU-14 joined to N-BW-6
Dazhui joined to Jiehexue

REN-20 joined to REN-21
Huagai joined to Xuanji

Spasms and pain in the elbow

Irritability

Shortness of breath

Pain of the lateral costal region

Agitation of the Heart

Pulmonary tuberculosis

UB-40 (prick)
Weizhong

ST-40
Fenglong

KI-7
Fuliu

Erysipelas

Chronic bronchitis due to Phlegm-Heat in the Lungs

Lung-Heat Injuring the Body Fluids

ST-40
Fenglong

LU-10
Yuji

SP-9
Yinlingquan
REN-3
Zhongji

ST-40
Fenglong

LU-1
Zhongfu

Second stage of whooping cough

Retention of urine due to Obstruction of the Lungs by Damp-Phlegm

Excess Heat characterized by fullness of the chest and expectoration of yellow, green or brown Phlegm

LU-9
Taiyuan
UB-43
Gaohuangshu

KI-3
Taixi

ST-40
Fenglong
PC-7
Daling

LU-10 (reduce)
Yuji

Deficiency Heat with dry mouth and tongue and tidal or taxation fever

Shortness of breath

Any type of spitting Blood (reinforce Chize)

GB-38
Yangfu

or

SJ-10
Tianjing
HT-3
Shaohai
UB-40
Weizhong
GB-38
Yangfu

LI-11
Quchi

SJ-4
Yangchi

LI-4
Hegu
SJ-3
Zhongzhu

UB-17
Geshu
UB-45
Yixi
UB-63
Jinmen

Wind predominant Bi

Contraction of the arm with tightness of the sinews of both hands resulting in inability to open the hands

Contraction and Cold of the shoulder and back with pain of the inner aspect of the scapula

DU-26
Renzhong
UB-40
Weizhong

Afterward Needle
UB-60
Kunlun

UB-65
Shugu
SJ-6
Zhigou
GB-34
Yanglingquan

 

 

Pain of the lumbar and lateral costal regions due to sprain

 

 

  • Use moxibustion with caution.
  • This point helps detoxify a patient after longtime use of aspirin.
  • This point is used for all Excess or Deficient conditions characterized by Heat in the Lungs.
  • This point is preferable to LI-11 Quchi for tennis elbow.