
Salty Taste in Chinese medicine
Too much food with the Salty taste in Chinese medicine will make you ill. But you need some! Which foods do they mean?
Liver 6, Zhongdu, Middle Capital is an acupuncture point on the Liver channel or meridian. It isn’t used much unless you are in great pain somewhere along the Liver channel, when it’s great!
This point is 7 cun above the medial malleolus, just posterior to the edge of the tibia. (The distance between the medial malleolus and the popliteal crease is reckoned at 15 cun.)
I have never used moxa on Liver 6, though applied the Japanese way, with tiny moxa filaments producing an intense short-term ‘bite’, I’m sure it would be OK to do.
In TCM theory, harmonising Blood and Qi in acute conditions means balancing Yin and Yang, hence reducing pain and inflammation from the areas of the body which are ‘ruled’ by the Liver such as:
I don’t use this point on its own. For me, it seems to back up other points, like Ligou Liver 5 and Xiguan Liver 7, both of which clear Damp.
However, with a name like Zhongdu, Middle Capital, and being on the Liver channel, I suspect it has more potential than we know about.
You might say, well, why not experiment with it on patients? Well, yes … but my patients all pay personally for the treatments I give them and might not see it my way if I said I was experimenting on them!
Liver-1 | Dadun | Great Clarity |
Liver-2 | Xingjian | Walk Between |
Liver-3 | Taichong | Great Pouring |
Liver-4 | Zhongfeng | Middle Seal |
Liver-5 | Ligou | Woodworm Groove |
Liver-6 | Zhongdu | Central Capital |
Liver-7 | Xiguan | Knee Joint |
Liver-8 | Ququan | Spring at the Bend |
Liver-9 | YinBao | Yin Wrapping |
Liver-10 | Zuwuli | Leg Five Miles |
Liver-11 | Yinlian | Yin Angle |
Liver-12 | Jimai | Urgent Pulse |
Liver-13 | Zhangmen | System Gate |
Liver-14 | Qimen | Cycle Gate |
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