Spleen Channel
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Your patient complains of insomnia. She also reports anxiety with palpitations, fatigue, poor appetite, and loose stools. You diagnose Spleen qi deficiency with Heart blood deficiency. What point could you use to tonify qi, tonify blood, and calm the shen?
SP-6 is the meeting point of the Spleen, Kidney, and Liver. The Spleen channel also connects to the Heart. So SP-6 tonifies qi and blood, nourishes Liver and Kidney yin, and calms the shen.
Source: "Spleen Patterns." The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, by Giovanni Maciocia, Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2005, p. 580 [Q256]