Cleft point.

bubble_chart Etymology

"Wen" (溫) refers to yang qi; "liu" (溜) means to flow. The acupoint is the cleft point of hand yangming, where the meridian's qi flows deeply into this point, hence the name.

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Wenliu (LI7) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "Located behind wrist, 5 cun for smaller body and 6 cun for larger body".

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Muscles: extensor carpi radialis longus tendon, extensor carpi radialis brevis.
• Nerve: dorsal cutaneous nerve of forearm; deep branches of radial nerve and muscular branches.
• Vessel: cephalic vein; deep layer contains muscular branches of the radial artery.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun toward the dorsal side of the radius. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 ~ 5 cones, moxibustion with moxa stick 5 ~ 10 minutes.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clear pathogenic heat and regulate intestines and stomach.

• Classical: headache, oral and dental pain, pharyngitis, facial swelling, soreness of shoulders and back, inability to lift shoulders, gnawing, abdominal borborygmus and pain, boil and sore carbuncle, cold injury with chills and fever, epilepsy, red face, swelling, madness, swollen limbs, salivation, pain in the mouth and tongue, obstruction of qi in the diaphragm, pharyngitis and inability to speak.
• Modern: stomatitis, mumps, glossitis.

bubble_chart Combinations

• Epilepsy: Wenliu (LI7), Pucan (BL61).
• toothache: Jueyang Yu, Wenliu (LI7), Neiting (ST44).
• Stiff neck due to cold injury: Wenliu (LI7), Qimen (LR14).