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Lung Indications
| AcuPoint | Functions | Indications | Special Notes |
| LU 1*** | disperses heat in the chest with heat and phlegm; more dispersing point rather than tonifying | dry cough; cough with fullness in chest; lung heat; pulmonary TB (severe yin deficiency); coughing and wheezing with blood | LU and SP cross here; with CV 17 and PC 6 to open up the chest |
| LU 2* | local | local | local |
| LU 3** | local | local | window of the sky point |
| LU 4* | local | local | local |
| LU 5**** | drains heat in the lungs; any kind of phlegm, especially phlegm heat; | yellow phlegm maybe white and viscous; OPI gone deeper; productive cough; asthma; bronchitis; pleurisy; pain in throat with cough; good for excess LU heat; | he sea point; water point; sedation point; not in early stages of an OPI because pathogen is not in LU yet; much stronger than LU 1; with ST 40 for clearing phlegm in upper warmer; for full heat |
| LU 6*** | cools heat; stops bleeding due to deficient heat; moisten lungs; regulate rebellious qi in LU; | dry cough; dryness in lungs; good elbow and biceps point | xi ccenter point; for empty heat |
| LU 7**** | opens the lungs; enhance the descending function of the LU; disperses wind and relieves the exterior; stimulates the wei qi; opens up the nose, especially with OPI; controls the head and neck (command point of the head and neck); | wind cold; wind heat; HA; coughing; asthma with little phlegm (allergic asthma); facial paralysis; stiff neck; tai yang s/sx; diseases of the wrist joint; sore throat; disease of the pharynx; wind rash; empirical point for blood in urine; | luo point; often used with LI 4; master point of CV; with LI4 and LI 20 for nasal congestion; paired confluent point with KD 6; with KD 6 for chronic sore throat; always use with KD 6 for deficient conditions involving the yin qiao/ren mai; |
| LU 8* | local | local | local |
| LU 9**** | regulates the LU and stops coughing, usually with weak coughs; tonifies the yin and qi; transforms damp or dry phlegm, scanty phlegm due to deficiency (excess of LU 1 or 5); big LU tonifier | any LU problem due to deficiency; cold, weak deficient LU; | shu stream; tonification point; earth point; yuan source point; influential point of the vessels or pulse; can be used to bolster a weak pulse; with BL 13, CV 6, BL 23 as a LU tonifier |
| LU 10** | clears heat in the lungs; benefits the throat; for really bad stabbing sore throat | local | ying spring point; with GB 8 for hangovers |
| LU 11** | cools the lungs; benefits the pharynx; revives from fainting | fainting; loss of consciousness; nose bleeds | with moxa to stop a nose bleed; moxa opposite side; |