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POINT: LU-7 (LUNG-7)  

English: Broken Sequence
Also Known As: Eminent Vacancy
Eminent Electricity
Narrow Defile
Listing Deficiency
Balancing Deficiency
Listening Deficiency
Displaced Creek
Arranged Vacancies
Branching Cleft
  • Superior to the styloid process of the radius, 1.5 cun above the transverse crease of the wrist between the brachioradial muscle and the tendon of the long abductor muscle of the thumb. When the the index fingers and the thumbs of both hands are crossed with the index finger of one hand placed on the styloid process of the radius of the other, the point is in the depression right under the tip of the index finger.
  • Proximal to the styloid process of the radius, in a small hollow 1.5 cun above the transverse crease of the wrist.
  • On the radial aspect of the forearm, approximately 1.5 cun proximal to LI-5 Yangxi, in the cleft between the tendons of brachioradialis and abductor policis longis.
  • Note: if the forefinger is placed at LI-5 Yangxi, in the anatomical snuffbox, and moved forward directly proximally over the full extent of the styloid process of the radius, the finger falls into the cleft between the two tendons.
  • Located in the slight depression at the origin of the styloid process of the radius, 1.5 cun proximal to the wrist crease, LU-9 Taiyuan.
  • Puncture obliquely upward 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • With the fingers of one hand pinch up the skin over the point, and with the other hand, needle transversely in a proximal or distal direction, 0.5 to 1 cun, avoiding the cephalic vein.
  • Slanted insertion towards the elbow, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness extending toward the elbow.
  • For stenosans tenosynovitis, point the needle laterally, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness.
  • Luo-Connecting point of the Lung channel
  • Master (Confluent) point of the REN channel
  • Exit point
  • Couple point of the Yinqiao channel
  • Cao Wu Command point
  • Mu Dan-yang Heavenly Star point
  • Opens the Lungs
  • Stimulates the descending and dispersing of Lung Qi
  • Circulates Wei Qi
  • Releases the Exterior
  • Expels Exterior Wind
  • Opens and regulates the REN channel
  • Benefits the Bladder
  • Opens water passages
  • Opens the nose
  • Communicates with the Large Intestine
  • Removes obstruction
  • Invigorates the Jing-Lou
  • Pacifies Wind and Phlegm
  • Benefits the nape
  • Activates the channel
  • Alleviates pain
  • Common cold
  • Influenza
  • Cough
  • Sneezing
  • Headache
  • Aversion to Cold
  • A floating pulse
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Nasal congestion
  • Runny nose
  • Loss of sense of smell
  • Facial edema
  • Difficulty passing stools
  • A feeling of exhaustion after passing stools
  • Hemiplegia
  • Deviation of the eyes and mouth
  • Burning urination
  • Epilepsy
  • Shortness of breath
  • Excess Heat and pain in the back
  • Swelling of the four limbs
  • Migraine
  • Sore throat
  • Toothache
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Difficulty taking in food
  • Excessive shivering
  • Bad memory
  • Retention of poisons and toxins
  • Chest disorders with heavy mucus
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Male genital problems
  • Spinal disorders
  • Pharynx and larynx swollen and painful
  • Phlegm obstructing the throat
  • Hemicranias
  • Facial spasms
  • Diseases of the wrist joint
  • Panting
  • Urinary frequency
  • Malaria
  • Cardiovascular syncope with the four limbs icy
  • Insensitivity of the whole body dye to Bi syndrome or Wind
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Flaring of the nostrils
  • Dyspnea
  • One-sided headache
  • Wind Bi
  • Retention of the lochia
  • Retention of a dead fetus
  • Seminal emission
  • Frequent yawning and stretching
  • Fullness of the lateral costal region
  • Pain of the thumb
  • Urticaria
  • Wind rash
  • Bronchitis with cough
  • Frontal and lateral headaches
  • Chills, pain and itching along the anterior midline of the abdomen
  • Cough with mucoid sputum
  • Nasal discharge
  • Asthma (Wheezing)
  • Worry
  • Grief
  • Sadness
  • Shoulder tension
  • Shallow breathing
  • Felling of oppression in the chest
  • Shoulder Bi
  • Deficiency constipation
  • Heat in the palm of the hand
  • Fever and chills
  • Vomiting foam
  • Excessive euphoria
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Pain in the penis
  • Hematuria
  • Urine hot and painful with hematuria
  • Difficult urination
  • Perspiration
  • Cold sensations in the back and chest
  • Neck rigidity
  • Facial paralysis
  • Pain and weakness of the wrist and hand
  • Difficulty opening and closing the mouth
  • Speech difficulties
  • Skin disorders
  • Middle of the palms always hot and painful upon pressure
  • Swelling
  • Edema
  • Limbs and bones feel icy cold
  • Varicose veins, especially when sleeping
  • Lips pendulant and flaccid
  • Trismus (Lockjaw)
  • Radial neuralgia
  • Urticaria
  • Pain in the elbow
  • Lack of energy
  • Raving laughter
  • Visions
  • Phlegm Obstructing the throat
  • Vomiting of Phlegm
  • Rheumatism of the shoulders
  • Nasal polyps
  • Throat Bi
  • Thirst
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Hypertension
  • Postpartum inability to speak
  • Propensity to laughter
  • Tension of the chest and back
  • Breast abscess
  • Malaria
  • Panting
  • Tonsillitis
  • Productive cough
  • Pain and inflammation of the umbilicus
  • Swelling and pain along the sternum

LI-4
Hegu

LI-20
Yingxiang

KI-6
Zhaohai

Exterior Wind

Childhood fright epilepsy

Sneezing, runny nose, loss of sense of smell and nasal obstruction

Opens the REN channel

Stimulates the descending of Lung Qi

Tonifies Yin

Regulates the uterus and menstrual functions

Benefits the throat

Moistens the eyes

Treats dry throat from Deficiency

ST-36
Zusanli

LI-5
Yangxi

ST-42
Chongyang

Acute dyspnea

Pain of stenosans stenosynovitis

One-sided Wind (hemiplegia)

LU-9
Taiyuan

ST-4
Dicang

GB-12
Wangu

One-sided or generalized headache

Stabbing pain of the two breasts

Deviation of the mouth

Deviation of the mouth and face

SP-9
Yinlingquan
HT-8
Shaofu

LU-8
Jingqu
LU-9
Taiyuan

SI-3
Houxi
SI-2
Qiangu
SI-1
Shaoze

Pain of the genitals

Heat in the palms

Malaria with chills and fever

UB-43
Gaohuangshu
DU-11
Shendao
KID-21
Youmen

or

UB-15
Xinshu
HT-7
Shenmen
REN-12
Zhongwan
ST-36
Zusanli
HT-3
Shaohai
DU-20 (moxa)
Baihui

SI-5
Yanggu
LI-4
Hegu
PC-5
Jianshi
GB-34
Yanglingquan
KI-10
Yingu
ST-36
Zusanli
LIV-8
Ququan
ST-41
Jiexi
ST-43
Xiangu
KI-7
Fuliu
SP-4
Gongsun
ST-45
Lidui
ST-42
Chongyang
SP-9
Yinlingquan
UB-21
Weishu
REN-9
Shuifen
REN-8
Shenque

PC-7
Daling
DU-26
Renzhong
LI-5
Yangxi

Poor memory

Edema

Frequent laughter
  • This is an extremely important point for releasing the Exterior.
  • It is the best point on the channel to stimulate the Lung's descending function.
  • It is one of the best points to direct the effect of the treatment to the face and head.
  • It tends to stimulate the beneficial outpouring of repressed emotions.
  • It is the main point on the Lung channel to open the water passages.
  • This is a key point for stiff neck.
  • It controls the back of the neck.
  • It can help disperse all types of tumors in the body.
  • Almost everything can be treated with this point as it keeps balance between all of the Zang.
  • It affects the release of sexual hormones.
  • It brings balance to the other two Yin channels of the arms.