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POINT: REN-23 (CONCEPTION VESSEL-23)

NAME: LIANQUAN

English: Corner Spring
Also Known As: Pure Spring
Modesty's Spring
Angle Spring
Side Spring

LOCATION:

  • Above the Adam's apple, in the depression of the upper border of the hyoid bone.
  • Superior to the laryngeal prominence, located at the superior ridge of the hyoid bone on the anterior midline.
  • On the anterior midline of the neck, in the depression above the hyoid bone.
    Note: run a finger along the underside of the chin towards the throat until it falls into the deep depression just in front of the hyoid bone which is the most superior palpable bony structure at the midline of the throat and runs transversely above the laryngeal prominence.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture obliquely 0.5 to 1 cun toward the tongue root.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Slanted insertion toward the base of the tongue, 1 to 1.5 cun.
  • Oblique insertion in the direction of DU-20 Baihui, 0.5 to 1.2 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Meeting point of the Yang Wei and Chong channels.
  • Meeting point of the Ren, Liver, Spleen and Heart channels.

ACTIONS:

  • Dispels Interior Wind
  • Promotes speech
  • Clears Fire
  • Resolves Phlegm
  • Subdues Rebellious Qi
  • Benefits the tongue
  • Descends Qi
  • Alleviates cough

INDICATIONS:

  • Swelling and pain of the subglossal region
  • Salivation with glossoplegia
  • Aphasia with stiffness of the tongue by apoplexy
  • Sudden hoarseness
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Nodules on the vocal cords
  • Bronchitis
  • Paralysis of the hypoglossis muscle
  • Contraction of the root of the tongue with difficulty eating
  • Protrusion of the tongue
  • Much spittle
  • Thirst
  • Lockjaw
  • Rebellious Qi
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Vomiting of foam
  • Sore throat
  • Lack of flexibility
  • Diabetes with intense thirst
  • Closed-type Windstroke with aphasia and tongue stiffness, swelling or pain
  • Hysteria with loss of voice
  • Asthma
  • Tonsillitis
  • Pharyngitis
  • Deaf-mutism
  • Mouth and tongue ulcers
  • Tongue paralysis or stiffness
  • Sudden aphasia
  • Sudden loss of voice
  • Spasm of the larynx
  • Hypersalivation
  • Dry tongue and mouth
  • Cough and catarrh
  • Lack of saliva
  • Flaccid tongue with salivation
  • Aphonia
  • Cough with a sensation of Qi rising up to the upper part of the body

COMBINATIONS:

HT-5
Tongli

KI-2
Rangu
KI-10
Yingu

PC-9
Zhongchong

Speech difficulties

Aphasia

Swelling below the tongue with difficulty speaking

Protrusion of the tongue with drooling

Swelling and pain below the tongue

M-HN-20
Jinjin-Yuye

LI-18
Futu
SI-17
Tianrong
UB-42
Pohu
ST-11
Qishe
UB-45
Yixi

 

Swelling of the tongue with difficulty speaking

Cough with rebellious Qi

Dyspnea

Vomiting

Lockjaw

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • Use moxibustion with caution.
  • According to several modern texts, moxibustion is contraindicated.

NOTES:

  • This point is mostly used for aphasia or slurred speech following Windstroke.