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Lung meridian

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Lung

Lung 1

Pain

  • Chest
  • Lumbar pain (with abdominal pain, chest oppression or problems breathing simultaneously)
  • Pain of the upper back and shoulders

Affecting movement movement

  • Breathing with raised shoulders

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in chest
  • Aversion to cold
  • Chills and fever
  • Sweating

Color and swelling

  • Goiter
  • Swelling of face

Lung and airway related problems

  • Wheezing
  • Asthma
  • Oppression of chest, difficulty breathing
  • Dyspnea
  • Cough
  • Turbid phlegm
  • Coughing blood and pus

Gastrointestinal

  • Difficult ingestion
  • Vomiting
  • Retching
  • Abdominal distention

Face

  • Swelling of the face

Nose

  • Nasal congestion

Throat

  • Painful obstruction of throat

Lung 2

Pain

  • Lateral costal region and back
  • Shoulder and back
  • Supraclavicular fossa
  • Chest

Affecting movement

  • Shoulder pain with inability to lift the arm

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in the chest

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Wheezing
  • Asthma
  • Dyspnea

Psycho-emotional

  • Oppresive and agitated sensation in chest

Lung 3

Pain

  • Medial aspect of upper arm

Pathology

  • Malaria

Lung and airway related problems

  • Wheezing
  • Dyspnea
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Spitting blood
  • Coughing blood
  • Much spittle

Psycho-emotional

  • Sadness
  • Weeping

Energy and sleep

  • Somnolence / strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods
  • Insomnia

Eyes

  • Visual dizziness
  • Myopia (short-sightedness)

Nose

  • Nosebleed

Throat

  • Swelling of throat

Dizziness

  • Dizziness

Other symptoms

  • Disorientation
  • Forgetfulness

 

Lung 4

Pain

  • Medial aspect of arm

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Dyspnea
  • Asthma
  • Shortness of breath

Heart

  • Heart pain
  • Palpitations

Gastroinestinal

  • Retching

Psycho-emotional

  • Agitation and fullness

 

Lung 5

Pain

  • Lateral costal region
  • Upper arm and shoulder
  • Elbow
  • Lumbar
  • Knee

Affecting movement

  • Inability to raise the arm to the head
  • Wandering painful obstruction of the elbow
  • Restricted movement of elbow
  • Difficulty opening and extending the hand
  • Sudden jerks and twitching of the body

Neurological

  • Epilepsy
  • Sudden jerks and twitching of the body

Affecting temperature

  • Coldness of the shoulder
  • Shivering

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of knee

Pathology

  • Epilepsy
  • Tidal fever
  • Taxation fever
  • Malaria

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Coughing phlegm
  • Asthma
  • Dyspnea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Spitting blood
  • Coughing blood
  • Tendency to sneeze

Gastrointestinal

  • Diarrhea
  • Abdominal distention

Childhood and adolescence

  • Acute and chronic childhood fright

Psycho-emotional

  • Sobbing with grief

Nose

  • Nosebleed

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Dry mouth and tongue

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Involuntary urination
  • Frequent urination

Vomiting

  • Vomiting
  • Vomiting blood

 

 

Lung 6

Pain

  • Elbow and upper arm (severe pain)
  • Chest pain
  • Epigastric pain
  • Headache
  • Throat

Affecting movement

  • Inability to raise the arm above the head
  • Difficulty flexing and extending the fingers
  • Sudden jerks and twitching of the body

Neurological

  • Sudden jerks and twitching of the body

Affecting temperature

  • Febrile disease with absence of sweating

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Wheezing
  • Asthma
  • Coughing blood
  • Spitting blood
  • Hiccup

Gastrointestinal

  • Hemorrhoids

Throat

  • Swelling of the throat with pain
  • Loss of voice

Speech

  • Loss of voice

Vomiting and nausea

  • Vomiting blood

 

 Lung 7

Pain

  • Throat with obstruction)
  • Headache with stiffness of neck and nape
  • One-sided headache
  • Wrist and hand
  • Thumb
  • Shoulder
  • Tootache
  • Penis
  • Genitals

Affecting movement

  • Stiffness of neck and nape
  • Lockjaw
  • Deviation of mouth and eye
  • Tension of chest and back
  • Weakness of wrist and hand
  • Flaring of the nostrils
  • Throat painful obstruction
  • Frequent yawning and stretching
  • Hemiplegia

Neurological

  • Epilepsy
  • Childhood-fright epilepsy
  • Hemiplegia

Affecting temperature

  • Chills and fever
  • Heat in palm
  • Heat of chest and back
  • Shivering and cold of the chest and back
  • Sweating

Color and swelling

  • Breast abscess
  • Sudden swelling of the four limbs

Pathology

  • Nasal polyps
  • Epilepsy
  • Malaria

Lung and airway related problems

  • Coughing up phlegm
  • Wheezing
  • Dyspnea
  • Asthma
  • Shortness of breath

Heart

  • Hypertension
  • Palpitations

Childhood and adolescence

  • Childhood fright-epilepsy
  • Acute childhood fright

Psycho-emotional

  • Propensity to laughter

Nose

  • Nasal congestion and discharge

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction

Maternal

  • Retention of lochia
  • Retention of the dead fetus
  • Postpartum inability to speak

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Blood in urine
  • Hot and painful urination
  • Difficult urination
  • Seminal emission

Vomiting

  • Vomiting of foamy saliva

Other symptoms

  • Poor memory
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Thirst

 

Lung 8

Pain

  • Chest and upper back
  • Wrist
  • Soles of the feet
  • Sore throat

Affecting movement

  • Much yawning

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in palms
  • Febrile disease with abscense of sweating
  • Febrile disease with breathlessness

Color and swelling

  • Distention and pain of chest and upper back

Pathology

  • Febrile disease with abscense of sweating
  • Febrile disease with breathlessness
  • Malaria

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Wheezing
  • Dyspnea

Energy and sleep

  • Much yawning

 

Lung 9

Pain

  • Wrist
  • Shoulder and back
  • Supraclavicular fossa
  • Inner aspect of the arm
  • Breast
  • Eyes
  • Toothache

Affecting movement

  • Weakness of wrist

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in palms
  • Cold shivering

Color and swelling

  • Swelling of the face
  • Redness and pain of eyes

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough
  • Cough with watery phlegm
  • Asthma
  • Wheezing
  • Dyspnea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Spitting blood
  • Coughing blood

Gastrointestinal

  • Belching

Psycho-emotional

  • Oppression and agitation of the chest with difficulty breathing and inability to lie down
  • Manic raving
  • Agitation

Eyes

  • Superficial visual obstruction
  • Redness and pain of eyes

Throat

  • Dry throat

Energy and sleep

  • Much yawning

Vomiting

  • Vomiting blood

 

Lung 10

Pain

  • Palm and thumb
  • Throat
  • Toothache
  • Headache

Affecting movement

  • Contraction of the elbow with distention of the arm
  • Intermittent muscular spasms

Neurological

  • Intermittent muscular spasms

Affecting temperature

  • Heat in the body
  • Aversion to cold
  • Heat and pain of the palm and thumb

Color and swelling

  • Breast abscess

Pathology

  • Malaria

Lung and airway related problems

  • Cough leading to hypogastric or sacral pain
  • Cough accompanied by hiccup
  • Shortness of breath
  • Painful obstruction of chest with inability to catch breath
  • Coughing blood

Gastrointestinal

  • Abdominal distention with impotence
  • Impotence with abdominal distention
  • Abdominal pain with inability to eat or drink

Childhood and adolescence

  • Childhood nutritional impairment

Psycho-emotional

  • Sadness and fear
  • Anger and mania

Eyes

  • Lacrimation
  • Visual dizziness

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Yellow tongue coating

Throat

  • Throat painful obstruction
  • Sore throat
  • Dry throat

Speech

  • Loss of voice

Genital, urinary tract, uterus

  • Abdominal distention with impotence
  • Blood in urine
  • Genital damp itching
  • Impotence with abdominal distention

Vomiting

  • Vomiting blood
  • Vomiting

 

 Lung 11

Pain

  • Wrist
  • Thumb
  • Front of the ear
  • Painful obstruction of upper arm

Affecting temperature

  • Heat of the palms
  • Febrile disease with cold shivering

Pathology

  • Malaria

Psycho-emotional

  • Agitation with cough and dyspnea
  • Mania
  • Childhood fright

Childhood and adolescence

  • Childhood fright

Nose

  • Nosebleed

Mouth, teeth and lip

  • Dry lips with desire to drink

Throat

  • Sore throat
  • Painful obstruction of throat

Vomiting

  • Vomiting

Other symptoms

  • Loss of consciousness