Acupoint Medicine - Di Cang ST 4
Nomenclature:
English meaning: Earth Granary
Chinese name: Di Cang
Chinese name character: 地仓
Location:
With the eyes looking straightforward, the acupoint is directly below the pupil, lateral to the corner of the mouth.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Benefits:
- Eliminates Wind from the face
-Clears heat and reduces inflammation
-Regulates Stomach and Small Intestine
-Calms the mind
Scientific Benefits:
-Helps twitching of eyelids, itching, night blindness, inability to close the eyes
-Treats drooling and inability to eat
-Treats deviation of mouth from stroke
-Treats all facial pain – Bell’s palsy, facial paralysis, trigeminal neuralgia, toothache
-Helps atrophy and/or movement issues within the legs
-Enhance upliftment of face
Spirituality Fact:
Di Cang is a point that is related to communication and openness to speak up. Frequent stimulation of this point can also change perspective and open up the mind and the eyes for welcoming the new into one’s life.
Known as the Earth’s Granary, this point is symbolic of the gathering of the harvest. This point is hence also used to treat any illnesses related to stomach and spleen which gather the external sources of energy and transform to internal energy and blood.
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