Korean Journal of Acupuncture

Society for Meridian and Acupoint (경락경혈학회)
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A Philological Comparative Study on the Difference of the Chief Virtue of Puryu(KI7) and Um-gok(KI10)

복류(復溜).음곡혈(陰谷穴)의 주치별(主治別) 차이(差異)에 대(對)한 문헌적(文獻的) 비교(比較) 고찰(考察)

  • Cho, Myeng-Rae (Dept. of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, College of Oriental Medicine, Dong-Shin University) ;
  • Youn, Dae-Hwan (Dept. of Meridian and Acupoint, College of Oriental Medicine, Dong-Shin University) ;
  • Ryu, Chung-Ryul (Dept. of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, College of Oriental Medicine, Dong-Shin University) ;
  • Yim, Hyun-Jin (Dept. of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, College of Oriental Medicine, Dong-Shin University)
  • 조명래 (동신대학교 한의과대학 침구학교실) ;
  • 윤대환 (동신대학교 한의과대학 경혈학교실) ;
  • 류충열 (동신대학교 한의과대학 침구학교실) ;
  • 임현진 (동신대학교 한의과대학 침구학교실)
  • Published : 2006.06.27
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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 $Pu-ryu(KI7)\;{\cdot}\;Um-gok(KI10)$ and a second name, a location and a characteristic of them. We made a comparative study about the chief virtue and combination of $Pu-ryu(KI7)\;{\cdot}\;Um-gok(KI10)$. 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.

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