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Kidney Indications
| AcuPoint | Functions | Indications | Special Notes |
| KI 1** | opens the sensory orifices; calms the spirit; good for adjusting the spirit after stroke or other psychotic conditions; sends qi down; sedates fever and spasm; sedates deficient fire as it affects cognition to bring fire down; mostly an emergency point | shock; heat exhaustion; stroke and can open the orifices and help with loss of voice; hypertension from excess; seizures; infantile convulsions; HA at the vertex (LV yang rising HA); soles of feet hot; for whole body muscle cramping | dispersion point; for peripheral neuropathy thread LV 3 to KD 1 |
| KI 2** 5 | cools and regulates KD yang; tonifies KD yang and jing; clears heat and fire from the heart; cools the blood as pertains to uterus; | chronic excess and recurring pharyngitis; irregular menstruation due to heat or damp heat; thirst from diabetes; diarrhea with damp heat and noises; itching in genital region; plantar fasciitis | fire point and ying spring; KD 6 for chronic low grade pharyngitis |
| KI 3**** | tonfies qi, yin, yang, and stabilizes KD qi; calms the fetus; restores collapsed yang; strengthens lower back and knees; nourishes LV especially | nephritis; cystitis; irregular menstruation; spermatorrhea; enuresis; tinnitus; alopecia; impotence; constipation and diarrhea if KD involved; yin deficient type insomnia; low back pain; knee pain; asthma if KD deficient | source point; most used KD point; LU and KD yin defic use LU 6; yin deficient insomnia use SP 6, KD 6; male sexual dysfunction ST 27, BL 52, BL 23, GV 4 if yang defic, SP 6 if yin defic |
| KI 4** | benefits the jing aspect of spirit (meaning little movement and lethargy) | plantar fasciitis; bone spurs | luo point; with BL 61 for heel problems |
| KI 5* | local | local | xi cleft but not used |
| KI 6 ***1/2 | calms spirit or mind; moistens throat; tonifies KD yin; moistens eyes; promotes uterine function | chronic pharyngitis; tonsillitis; epileptic seizures that occur more at night; deficient yin asthma, constipation, insomnia; dry throat; eye pain from dryness; vaginal discharge like chronic leucorrhoea; vaginal dryness (menopause or other); major for bui | master point of yin qiao; with LU 7 to moisten throat; |
| KI 7*** | tonifies KD yang; regulates body fluids and sweat; clear and cool damp heat; helps to metabolize fluids | leucorrhoea; any urinary problems; night sweats; OPI sweat or lack of sweat; low back pain; edema with SP 9; good for ankle edema; | tonification point; with LI 4 to promote or stop sweat; metal point on water meridian and thus may help with spontaneous sweating |
| KI 8* | local | local | local |
| KI 9** | local | local | never see in TCM prescription; people who do OB/GYN acupuncture swear by this point |
| KI 10** | promotes urination; clears lower jiao (bladder) heat; strengthens knees | diseases of urogential system; dysuria; arthritis of knee in medial area; important for water balance | he sea point; water point |
| AcuPoint | Functions | Indications | Special Notes |
| KI 11* | local | local | local |
| KI 12* | local | local | local |
| KI 13* | local | local | local |
| KI 14* | local | local | local |
| KI 15* | local | local | local |
| KI 16** | harmonizes ST; regulates LI qi | habitual constipation with hard and difficult to pass stool (need to nourish yin); hiccups; vomiting; back up dry constipation point | |
| KI 17* | local | local | local |
| KI 18* | local | local | local |
| KI 19* | local | local | local |
| KI 20* | local | local | local |
| AcuPoint | Functions | Indications | Special Notes |
| KI 21* | local | local | local |
| KI 22* | local | local | exit point of KD meridian (on NCCA exam) |
| KI 23* | local | local | local |
| KI 24* | local | local | local |
| KI 25* | local | local | local |
| KI 26* | local | local | local |
| KI 27** | opens the lungs | shu of shus; meeting point of all back shus |