The route and location of the hand Taiyin lung meridian

Traditional Chinese Medicine is my country's traditional medical art. It emphasizes that the human body is composed of many meridians and acupoints. When treating many diseases, it is necessary to open up the meridians, find the acupoints, and then use appropriate physical therapy methods to treat them. For ordinary people like us, we may not know much about the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian. Today, I will give you some information about the route and location of the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian.

The hand Taiyin lung meridian is one of the twelve meridians. This meridian starts from the middle burner (abdomen), goes down to connect with the large intestine, goes back along the upper opening of the stomach through the diaphragm, enters the lungs, and runs horizontally from the lung system (trachea, throat) out of the upper outer side of the chest wall, toward the armpit, along the anterior and lateral side of the upper arm, to the middle of the elbow, then goes down along the radial side of the forearm to Cunkou (the pulsation point of the radial artery), and then along the outer edge of the thenar eminence of the palm to the radial end of the thumb. Its branch branches out from above the radial styloid process at the back of the wrist, passes through the base of the hand to the radial end of the index finger. The pulse qi connects with the hand yangming large intestine meridian from here. When this meridian is lesioned, the main symptoms are chest fullness, cough, wheezing, pain in the supraclavicular fossa, upset stomach, frequent urination, coldness, numbness and pain in the shoulders, back and front and outer sides of upper limbs.

The hand Taiyin lung meridian and the hand Yangming large intestine meridian are exterior and interior to each other. They connect to the foot Jueyin liver meridian in the lung above and to the hand Yangming large intestine meridian at the index finger below. The meridians are distributed on the chest, the anterior medial side of the upper limbs, and the radial side of the thumb. Its collateral vessels and collateral meridians are connected to it internally and externally respectively, and the meridian tendons are distributed on the outside. The first point of this meridian is Zhongfu, the last point is Shaoshang, and there are 11 points on each side.

The course of the hand Taiyin lung meridian in the postgraduate entrance examination of traditional Chinese medicine

The course and branches of the hand Taiyin lung meridian:

1. Course: The Lung Meridian of Hand Taiyin starts at the Zhongwan area, descends to the vicinity of the navel (Shuifen point) and connects with the large intestine, then returns upward along the upper opening of the stomach, passes through the diaphragm, and goes directly to the lungs, up to the trachea and throat, and runs horizontally along the clavicle to the axilla (Zhongfu and Yunmen points), descends along the inner front edge of the upper limb to the middle of the elbow, enters the Cunkou Medical Education Network along the inner radial edge of the forearm, passes through the thenar eminence, and ends at the radial tip of the thumb (Shaoshang point).

2. Connecting with internal organs: It belongs to the lungs, connects with the large intestine, passes through the diaphragm, and is connected with the stomach and kidneys.

3. Branches: It branches out from the back of the wrist (Lieque point), goes forward to the radial tip of the index finger (Shangyang point), and connects with the hand yangming large intestine meridian.