02 9231 3377

Acupuncture Sydney CBD/City

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Conveniently located on Level 10,
The Dymocks Building,
428 George Street, Sydney CBD.

NAMES OF THE ACUPUNCTURE CHANNELS

A system was devised to separate the names of the organs from the names of the acupuncture channels. This way, the acupuncture channel will not get confused with the organ with which it is theoretically associated. The system to name the acupuncture channels consists of three parts. The first part names the zang or the fu (organ) which belongs to the acupuncture channel. The second part names the limb on which the acupuncture channel travels. Acupuncture channels which have the five shu acupuncture points on the arm are labeled “hand” and conversely, the acupuncture channels which have the five shu acupuncture points on the leg are labeled “foot”. The third aspect of each acupuncture channel name states the yin or yang identity of that acupuncture channel. The yin yang identities are either: taiyin; yangming; shaoyin; taiyang; jueyin or shaoyang. For example when all three aspects of the name are combined, the lung acupuncture channel is called, the “lung channel of hand taiyin”.