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Pattern Names

Bladder Foot Taiyang Channel • 足太阳膀胱经 • Zú Tài Yáng Páng Guāng Jīng

Classification
Category: Meridians and Collaterals	Syndrome: Bladder Foot Taiyang Channel

Notes

5 ELEMENTS: Yang counterpart to Kidney/Water Channel • FUNCTIONS: BL Qi transforms urine[42]

Organ Pathologies

ORGAN DISORDER: urination difficulty, urinary retention, enuresis, mania, depression, spinal rigidity, malaria, leukorrhea, lower abdominal distention.[42] • In adults: feeling of jealousy, suspicion, long standing grudges. In children: fears, anxieties which leads to sinking of Bladder Qi. Dreams of voyages when deficient.[35]

Primary Channel Pathologies

PRIMARY CHANNEL: chills/fever, headache, runny nose, frequent colds, painful eyes, nasal congestion, epistaxis, body aches, pain along the channel [42]

Sinew Channel Pathologies

SINEW CHANNEL: Pain and stiffness along the channel, difficulty bending forward, rotating the neck or raising the shoulder[42]

LUO Channel Pathologies

LUO CHANNEL: Excess - headache, back pain, nasal congestion, runny nose. Deficiency - epistaxis, sinusitis, chronic clear nasal discharge [42]

Divergent Channel Pathologies

DIVERGENT CHANNEL: separates at the popliteal fossa -> anus, cardiac region, neck. Divergent channels branches out from the 12 primary channels. Most of the divergent yang channels separate from their yang primary channels on the limbs. They strengthen bonds of paired Yin and Yang primary channels and the pair Zang Fu organs. [42]

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