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- what are the 6 kinds of therapuetic methods?
- reinforcing, reducing, warming, clearing, ascending and descending.
- when would you use the reinforciing method?
- when you want to strengthen the body's resistance and the zangfu organs & replenish yin,yang,qi and blood. it is indicated w/ deficiency.
- reinforcing kidney qi
- ki3 taixi,ub 23 shenshu, cv 4 guanyuan
- reinforcing kidney yin
- ki6 zhouhai, ub 52
- reinforcing kidney yang
- cv 4 guanyuan, du4 mingmen--moxa to tonify yang.
- reinforcing qi of the spleen and stomach
- cv12, cv6 qihai, st36 zusanli
- qi and blood deficiency
- ub20 pishu, ub17 geshu,st36, sp6sanyinjiao
- lung qi deficiency
- lu1,lu2,cv17
- when should the reinforcing method not be used?
- when pathogenic factors are strong and excessive, or if the pathogenic factor is not completely eliminated or if def syndrome is associated with excess and strong pathogenic factor
- when would you use the reducing method?
- when you need to dispel the pathogenic factors and remove stagnation in order to restore the bodys resistance. in cases of excess.