Command points: 4 Junction points

Junction points provide a link between the yin and yang officials of an element, and in this way help maintain an element's balance.  They are also used as part of the procedure for transferring energy from element to element around the circle of the elements.

Yin and yang officials are usually happy to share their energy so to that there is no need for us to interfere with their naturally balanced communication with one another.  Very occasionally, though, one or other official is under greater stress than its companion.  This will appear as a discrepancy between the pulse pictures between them, with either the yin or yang aspect having less energy.  In this case the junction point of the weaker official should be tonified, encouraging it to draw increased energy to itself from its stronger partner.

 

Some pairings of junction points have very evocative names, such as those for the Outer Fire officials, Inner and Outer Frontier Gates.  Gates are always important points, helping energy move smoothly around the body, as needling these two junction points would do.

 

If a command point on either an element's yin or yang official is selected, treatment can then be completed by tonifying the junction point of the untreated official so that both of the element's officials benefit.  For example, you might choose HP (V) 8, Palace of Weariness, for its spirit, and add the Three Heater junction point TH (VI) 5 to finish the treatment.

 

Junction points are also used as part of the routine balancing of energy which forms part of our Akabane procedure.  Where an Akabane imbalance is detected on one official on one side of the body, the junction point of the weaker yin or yang official is stimulated to help it draw energy from the stronger official on the other side of the body.