connecting point.

[Origin]

Deviation, deviation; calendar, transcendence. The network of hand yangming leads from here to hand taiyin. Huangdi Neijing Taisu Yang Shang-shan Note: "The hand yangming meridian deviates from this meridian, and it passes through the arm and does not go through the Taiyin, so it is called Pianli (LI6)."

[Location]

partial calendar acupoints
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Lingshu‧Jingmai: "Remove three inches from the wrist";
• Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "Yangxi (LI5) Diagonally upward; one method: Lieque (LU7) One inch and five points behind."

[Anatomy]

• Muscles: extensor carpi radialis longus tendon, extensor pollicis brevis, abductor pollicis longus tendon.
• Nerves: The volar side is the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve and the superficial branch of the radial nerve, and the dorsal side is the dorsal antebrachial cutaneous nerve.
• Vessel: Cephalic vein.

[Manipulation]

Up or down oblique insertion 0.5~1 inch. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 5 minutes, moxibustion with moxa stick 5 to 15 minutes.

[Efficacy]

Clear lung qi, regulate Shuidao (ST28), and unblock meridians.

• Classical: blurred vision, epistaxis, deafness tinnitus, pharyngitis, soreness in shoulders, elbows, and wrists, difficulty in urination, water poisoning, dryness in the throat, tightness in the mouth, swollen cheeks, epilepsy, talkativeness, wind malaria and inability to sweat.
• Modern: tonsillitis, facial nerve paralysis, forearm neuralgia, stenosing tenosynovitis of the radial styloid process.

[Recipe]

• Wrist tenosynovitis: Pianli (LI6), Lieque (LU7), Yangxi (LI5).