|
KMID : 1129720060230020047
|
|
Korean Journal of Acupuncture
2006 Volume.23 No. 2 p.47 ~ p.57
|
|
|
A Philological Comparative Study on the Difference of the Chief Virtue of Puryu(KI7) and Um-gok(KI10)
|
|
Lim Hyun-Jin
Cho Myung-Rae
Youn Dae-Hwan
Ryu Chung-Ryul
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Objectives: The aim of the present study was to widen a clinical use by investigating literatures about the acupoint of Pu-ryu(KI7) and Um-gok(KI10) concerning Kidney-Eum(vital essence of the kidney) and Kidney-Yang(vital function of the kidney).
Methods: We investigated the first literature about and a second name, a location and a characteristic of them. We made a comparative study about the chief virtue and combination of .
Results: Pu-ryu(KI7) is the 7th acupoint of Kidney Meridian of Foot Soeum(少陰), which reinforces a meridian of belonging and has the efficacy of warming the Kidney Yang, clearing heat, excreting dump and regulating water passage. Um-gok(KI10) is the 10th acupoint of Kidney Meridian of Foot Soeum(少陰), which has the virtue of nurishing the Liver and Kidney Eum, promoting lower heater and marinating the free flow of Gi
Conclusions: The chief virtue of Pu-ryu(KI7) is to remove edema due to disturbance in Gi activity by dificiency of Kidney-Yang because of warming Yang to induce diuresis. To Um-gok(KI10), it is to treat instability of Kidney-Gi by Eum dificiency of the Liver and Kidney because of nurishing the Liver and Kidney Eum.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Pu-ryu(KI7), Um-gok(KI10), Kidney-Eum, Kidney-Yang, acupoint
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|