Points 1 Mixed

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Your patient complains of edema and urinary retention. What points could you use to regulate the water passages?

SP-15, ST-36, SP-6
LU-3, LI-18, ST-9
SP-4, SP-6, SP-10
LU-5, SP-9, LI-6

LU-5 and SP-9 are the He-Sea (Water) points of the Taiyin channel; they both regulate the water passage. LI-6 is the Luo-Connecting point, so it also regulates water passages (it connects to the Lung's function of regulating water).

Source: A Manual of Acupuncture, by Peter Deadman et al., Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications, 2007, p. 81 [Q287]