| Condition:
Sore Throat • Deficient Heat |
| Treatment:
Tonify Yin, clear the deficient fire, relieve the sore throat. |
| Description:
Dull pain in the throat, thirst desiring no drinking, soreness in the lumbar region and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, tidal fever, red tongue proper with less coating, and rapid thready pulse. |
| Comment:
Add CV22 and SI17 for more severe sore throat, add BL23 for lower back pain, add HE7 for insomnia, add HE6 for tidal fever. |
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| Point
Selection: |
| KI3 • Tai Xi •
On the medial ankle, at the midpoint between the prominence of the medial malleolus and Achille's Tendon. |
| Great Ravine. Shu Stream Point on the Kidney Channel. Yuan Source on the Kidney Channel. Earth Point on Water Meridian. |
| Explanation:
Yaun source. |
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| LU10 • Yu Ji •
Midpoint on the thenar eminence, on the dorsal-palmar surface. |
| Fish Border. Ying Spring Point on the Lung Channel. Fire Point on Metal Meridian. |
| Explanation:
Clears deficient fire from Lung. |
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