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Large intestine meridian

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Large intestine

Large intestine 1

Pain

  • Shoulder and back radiating to the supraclavicular fossa
  • Lower cheek
  • Throat

Neurological

  • Numbness of fingers

Affecting temperature

  • Numbness and heat of fingers
  • Febrile disease with absence of sweating

Color and swelling

  • Submandibular region

Pathology

  • Malaria

Lung and airway related problems

  • Dyspnea and cough

Ear

  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Dry mouth

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction

Other

  • Dry mouth
  • Loss of consciousness

 

Large intenstine 2

Pain

  • Shoulder and back
  • At Li15
  • Lower cheek
  • Toothache

Affecting movement

  • Pain and stiffness of shoulder and back
  • Deviation of the mouth and eye

Affecting temperature

  • Cold and pain at Li15
  • Injury by cold with water binding the chest and lateral costal region
  • Febrile diseases
  • Cold shivering

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of the lower cheek (with pain)

Pathology

  • Eczema of the face
  • Eye diseases

Gastrointestinal

  • Acute food stagnation

Psycho-emotional

  • Acute weeping
  • Propensity to fright
  • Somnolence

Eyes

  • Cloudy vision
  • Eye diseases
  • Yellow eyes

Nose

  • Nosebleed

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Dry mouth

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction

Large intestine 3

Pain

  • Tootache of lower jaw
  • Pain from decaying teeth
  • Acute eye pain
  • Throat

Affecting movement

  • Acute stiff neck
  • Difficulty flexing and extending fingers

Affecting temperature

  • Injury by cold with water binding the chest and lateral costal region
  • Chills and fever

Color and swelling

  • Redness and swelling of the dorsum of the hand
  • Injury by cold with water binding the chest and lateral costal region

Obstruction

  • Obstruction of throat

Pathology

  • Malaria

Gastrointestinal

  • Cold or damp diarrhea
  • Borborygmus

Energy and sleep

  • Strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods

Eyes

  • Acute eye pain

Ear

  • Tinnitus

Nose

  • Nosebleed
  • Rhinitis

Mouth, teeth and lips

  • Dry scorched lips and mouth
  • Tongue thrusting

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction

Large intestine 4

Pain

  • Sinews and bones
  • Arm
  • Lumbar spine
  • Eyes
  • Headache
  • One-sided headache
  • Headache of whole head
  • Toothache or pain of tooth decay in the lower jaw

Affecting movement

  • Contraction of fingers
  • Painful obstruction and atrophy disorder of the four limbs
  • Deviation of face and mouth
  • Lockjaw
  • Hemiplegia

Affecting temperature

  • Chills and fever
  • Injury by cold with great thirst
  • Copious sweating
  • Absence of sweating
  • Febrile disease with absence of sweating

Color and swelling

  • Of the face
  • Swelling and pain of the eyes

Pathology

  • Malaria
  • Mumps

Heart

  • Hypertension

Gastrointestinal

  • Dysenteric disorder

Childhood and adolescence

  • Childhood nutritional impairment
  • Childhood fright

Psycho-emotional

  • Mania

Eyes

  • Redness, swelling and pain of the eyes
  • Dimness of vision
  • Superficial visual obstruction

Ear

  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus

Nose

  • Nosebleed
  • Nasal congestion and discharge
  • Rhinitis
  • Sneezing

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Mouth ulcers
  • Lotus flower tongue
  • Cracked tongue
  • Rigid tongue
  • Lips do not close
  • Tightness of lips

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction

Speech

  • Loss of voice

Maternal

  • Prolonged labor
  • Delayed labor
  • Retention of dead fetus

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Absence of menstruation

Large intestine 5

Pain

  • Wrist
  • Ear
  • Redness, swelling and pain of the eyes
  • Toothache
  • Pain from tooth decay
  • Headache
  • Chronic headache
  • Frontal headache
  • Throat painful obstruction
  • At root of the tongue

Affecting movement

  • Weakness of wrist
  • Contraction of the five fingers
  • Difficulty in raising the elbow

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in the palms
  • Fever with absence of sweating

Color and swelling

  • Swelling and pain of the eyes

Skin

  • Urticaria

Pathology

  • Malaria

Psycho-emotional

  • Mania-depression
  • Manic raving
  • Propensity to laughter
  • Fright

Eyes

  • Redness, swelling and pain of the eyes
  • Superficial visual obstruction
  • Lacrimation

Ear

  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Ear pain

Nose

  • Rhinitis
  • Nosebleed

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction

Vomiting

  • Vomiting of foam

Large intestine 6

Pain

  • Wrist, elbow, and upper arm
  • Redness and pain of the eyes
  • Painful obstruction throat
  • Toothache

Affecting movement

  • Deviation of the mouth

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of the cheek
  • Edema
  • Ascites

Pathology

  • Malaria

Lung and airway related problems

  • Obstruction of the diaphragm

Gastrointestinal

  • Borborygmus with edema

Psycho-emotional

  • Manic raving

Eyes

  • Redness and pain of the eyes
  • Dimness of vision
  • Blurred vision

Ear

  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness

Nose

  • Rhinitis
  • Nosebleed

Mouth, teeth and lips

  • Toothache
  • Tooth decay
  • Cold teeth

Throat

  • Dry throat
  • Throat painful obstruction

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Difficult urination

Large intestine 7

Pain

  • Shoulder and arm
  • Headache
  • Redness, swelling and pain of face
  • Teeth and mouth
  • Throat painful obstruction with loss of voice

Affecting movement

  • Pain and difficulty raising the shoulder and arm
  • Deviation of face and mouth

Swelling

  • Redness, swelling and pain of face
  • Sudden swelling of the four limbs

Skin

  • Carbuncle and furuncle

Gastrointestinal

  • Borborygmus with abdominal pain
  • Abdominal distention

Psycho-emotional

  • Frequent laughter
  • Raving

Mouth, teeth and lips

  • Pain of the teeth and mouth
  • Tongue thrusting

Throat

  • Painful obstruction of throat with loss of voice

Vomiting

  • Vomiting of watery saliva and foam

Large intestine 8

Pain

  • Elbow and arm
  • Eye
  • Abdominal
  • Periumbilical
  • Lateral costal region
  • Headache

Affecting movement

  • Hemiplegia
  • Dizziness

Color and swelling

  • Breast abscess
  • Lower abdominal distention

Lung and airway related problems

  • Dyspnea

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal pain
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Fullness and pain of the abdomen and lateral costal region
  • Periumbilical pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Containing undigested food
  • Blood in the stool

Psycho-emotional

  • Manic raving

Eyes

  • Pain of the eye

Mouth, teeth and lips

  • Dry lips with drooling

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Dark urine

Large intestine 9

Pain

  • Pain or numbness of shoulder, elbow and arm
  • Chest
  • Headache

Neurological

  • Pain or numbness of the shoulder, elbow and arm
  • Numbness of the limbs

Lung and airway related problems

  • Dyspnea

Gastrointestinal

  • Borborygmus
  • Abdominal pain

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Difficult and dark urination

 

Large intestine 10

Pain

  • Pain and immobility of the arm and shoulder
  • Lumbar pain with inability to lie down
  • Abdominal pain
  • Toothache with swelling of the cheek

Affecting movement

  • Pain and immobility of the arm and shoulder
  • Paralysis of the arm
  • Atrophy disorder
  • Hemiplegia
  • Contraction and inflexibility of the elbow
  • Deviation of the mouth

Neurological

  • Paralysis of the arm

Affecting temperature

  • Periodic sensation of cold in the intestines

Color and swelling

  • Scrofula

Pathology

  • Scrofula

Gastrointestinal

  • Vomiting and diarrhea
  • Abdominal pain

Mouth, teeth and lips

  • Toothache with swelling of the cheek
  • Deviation of the mouth

Speech

  • Loss of voice

Vomiting

  • Vomiting and diarrhea

Large intestine 11

Pain

  • Contraction, immobility and pain of elbow and shoulder
  • Ankle
  • Throat painful obstruction
  • Toothache
  • Redness and pain of the eyes
  • Pain in front of the ear
  • Distention and pain of the abdomen

Affecting movement

  • Hemiplegia
  • Clonic spasm
  • Contraction, immobility and pain of the elbow and shoulder
  • Emaciation and weakness of the elbow
  • Atrophy disorder of the lower limbs

Neurological

  • Numbness of upper arm

Affecting temperature

  • High fever that does not recede
  • Injury by cold with residual fever that does not recede

Color and swelling

  • Pain and swelling of the ankle
  • Distention and pain of the abdomen
  • Redness and swelling of the arm
  • Goitre
  • Scrofula

Skin

  • Dry skin
  • Scaly skin
  • Itching of the skin
  • Shingles
  • Pain and itching of the whole body as if bitten by insects
  • Urticaria

Pathology

  • Malaria
  • Erysipelas
  • Urticaria
  • Shingles
  • Dysenteric disorder
  • Scrofula
  • Goitre

Heart

  • Hypertension

Gastrointestinal

  • Distention and pain of the abdomen
  • Dysenteric disorder
  • Vomiting and diarrhea

Psycho-emotional

  • Agitation and oppression of the chest
  • Manic disorders

Eyes

  • Redness and pain of the eyes
  • Lacrimation

Mouth, teeth and lips

  • Toothache
  • Tongue thrusting

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction

Speech

  • Loss of voice

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Amenorrhea

Vomiting

  • Vomiting and diarrhea

Dizziness

  • Dizziness

Other symptoms

  • Poor memory

Large intestine 12

Pain

  • Pain and stiffness of elbow

Affecting movement

  • Contraction, numbness and immobility of upper arm
  • Pain and sitffness of elbow

Sleep

  • Somnolence

Large intestine 13

Pain

  • Pain, numbness or contraction of the elbow and upper arm
  • Shoulder

Affecting movement

  • Pain, numbness or contraction of the elbow and upper arm
  • Inability to raise the arm
  • Inability to move the four limbs

Color and swelling

  • Scrofula

Pathology

  • Scrofula

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Difficulty breathing

Psycho-emotional

  • Fear and fright

Energy and sleep

  • Desire to sleep

Eyes

  • Blurred vision

Vomiting

  • Vomiting blood

Large intestine 14

Pain

  • Pain, numbness and painful obstruction of the upper arm and shoulder
  • Chest
  • Redness, swelling and pain of eyes

Affecting movement

  • Wasting and weakness of the upper arm
  • Inability to raise the arm
  • Contraction and stiffness of neck

Color and swelling

  • Goiter
  • Scrofula

Pathology

  • Scrofula
  • Goiter

Eyes

  • Redness, swelling and pain of the eyes

Large intestine 15

Pain

  • Shoulder
  • Painful obstruction of fingers

Affecting movement

  • Weakness of shoulder
  • Inability to raise the arm to the head
  • Contraction and numbness of the arm
  • Hemiplegia
  • Inability to turn the head
  • Painful obstruction of the fingers

Affecting temperature

  • Heat sensation in the shoulder
  • Heat in the four limbs

Color and swelling

  • Redness and swelling in the shoulder
  • Goiter
  • Scrofula

Pathology

  • Scrofula
  • Goiter

Heart

  • Hypertension

Genital, urinary tract

  • Seminal emission due to taxation

Large intestine 16

Pain

  • Shoulder and back
  • Upper arm

Affecting movement

  • Difficulty in moving or raising the arm

Color and swelling

  • Goitre
  • Scrofula

Pathology

  • Scrofula
  • Goitre

Heart and circulation

  • Blood stasis in the shoulder
  • Blood stasis of the chest

Psycho-emotional

  • Fright epilepsy

Vomiting

  • Vomiting of copious quantities of blood

Large intestine 17

Pain

  • Throat painful obstruction

Color and swelling

  • Goitre
  • Scrofula

Pathology

  • Scrofula
  • Goitre

Lung and airway related problems

  • Difficulty in breathing

Gastrointestinal

  • Difficult ingestion

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction
  • Rattling sound in the throat

Speech

  • Sudden loss of voice

Large intestine 18

Pain

  • Swelling and pain of throat

Color and swelling

  • Goitre
  • Scrofula

Pathology

  • Scrofula
  • Goitre

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Coughing with much spittle
  • Wheezing
  • Asthma

Heart

  • Hypotension

Throat

  • Swelling and pain of the throat
  • Rattling sound in the throat
  • Difficulty in swallowing

Speech

  • Sudden loss of voice

Large intestine 19

Affecting movement

  • Lockjaw
  • Deviation of the mouth

Nose

  • Nasal congestion and discharge
  • Loss of sense of smell
  • Nasal sores
  • Nasal polyps
  • Rhinitis with nosebleed

Other

  • Loss of consciousness

Large intestine 20

Pain

  • Pain and swelling of lip

Affecting movement

  • Deviation of the mouth

Affecting temperature

  • Heat and redness of the eyes

Color and swelling

  • Swelling and itching of the face
  • Pain and swelling of the lip

Lung and airway related problems

  • Dyspnea

Eyes

  • Heat and redness of the eyes

Nose

  • Nasal congestion
  • Nasal congestion and discharge
  • Rhinitis
  • Profuse nasal discharge
  • Loss of sense of smell
  • Nasal polyps
  • Nasal sores
  • Sneezing
  • Nosebleed

Mouth, teeth and lips

  • Pain and swelling of lip

Other

  • Round worms in the bile duct