The Ren and Du channels are extraordinary channels running on the front and back.
Urinary bladder is the longest channel.
It is a Yang channel on the back starting on the head/face and running down to the foot.
It is a Tai Young channel, so it’s most superficial, affected by external invasion.
Two portions on the back: a medial and a lateral branch.
Qi travels through the body every 28.8 minutes, and the 12 organs have a 24-hour energy cycle.
There are two rows on the back: the medial branch at 1.5 cun is the primary one, and the lateral branch is important but not used as often (except UB42, 43).
The channel starts at the inner canthus where small intestine terminates (at end of ACU one).
The energy transfers from small intestine to urinary bladder in the cyclical flow.
Process:
- UB1, UB2, up to the head, back across the top of the head, to the nape of the neck.
- From there, down 1.5 cun lateral to the midline (Du channel).
- These points connect directly to the organs.
- The primary path goes into the glutes and then to the sacral foramina.
- Descends along the back of the thigh to the back of the knee.
- The channel reemerges at three cun lateral and travels down the three cun lateral line to the glutes then down the back of the thigh.
- It reconnects and continues down the back of the lower leg and lateral aspect of the foot terminating at the little toe.
Deep Branches Connection:
- Du24
- Du20
- Gallbladder points around the ear
- Du points on the back of the head as it comes to the nape of the neck.
- The kidneys
- The urinary bladder
Inner canthus
- Ascend to the forehead
- Go parallel on either side to the Du channel, running along the skull to the back and the nape of the neck where it descends in two lines along the back.
- Covering the entire back between the scapulae running down the 1.5 cun line and the three cun line all the way to the glutes, going down the back of the leg to connect at the knee, down the back of the lower leg, and then coming onto the lateral side of the foot to terminate at the little toe where it meets with the next channel in sequence (kidney).
- Connections:
- Du20, Du24, Gv15
- GV points surrounding the ear.
- Du points on the back of the head.
- Brain: connecting to Du20; UB has a lot to do with the wind, just like Du (internal and external wind).
- Kidneys and urinary bladder.
Lil Connecting Pathway
Luo-connecting Pathway
Originates at UB58
Connects to the kidney channel on the other side. This is all.No actual path here. It just goes and connects.
UV One: In a canthus of the eye, jingming.
- Brighten the eyes, treat the eyes.
- Treating Wind and heat like swelling, pain, photophobia eye conditions, heat, wind.
- Btween the bone in the eyeball similar Stomack one is seen more risky because the possibility to hurt people. One should be careful.
UV Two: right at the medial border of the eyebrow.
- Helps eliminate wind, benefits the eyes, clears the head, alleviates pain.
- Treating headaches, pain of the eyebrow, similar UV 1 but less risky.
- One can go downwards and laterally done with a short needle and going straight. Be careful of bleeding when having facial acupuncture because facial points can bruise much more easily.
UV 3: Straight up above UV II 0.5 is in from hairline that be slightly behind to UV 24.
- Expands the wind, clears the head, for pain benefit for eye and nose, you see more affinity two eyes and nose.
- So with eye condition, headache, agitation, this can work, it requires the subcutaneous needs, because of now we're in skull, one cannon do perpendicular or oblique, but must do above the wind.
UV 4: Breaking to 2/3 and being about one and a half to the one that helps wind head pain fit it eyes and nose, similar to the UV 3 with heat comes in again.
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UV 6,7,8: Subcutaneous needs and, will do similar winds, clear heat as clear head fitness or eyes and nose with their functions.
- Wind and cold. But with the interiors interior wind as brightens the eyes here as for to.
- UV 8:
- Pacifies the wind transform phlegm, Calms the spirit.
- The tinnitus but block the movement of QI. Might see goiters. Disorientation, or Spirit is back. And they hear.
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- wind cold pin is benefited for eyes and nose.
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