Bear with me while I get a little giggly-excited about Large Intestine 10 Acupuncture Point. I can’t help it—it’s one of those points that never stops amazing me. When you really understand the story of the pathway, you realize how one single point can affect pain, immunity, digestion, fascia, and emotion all at once.
Confession 😏
I almost always add this point to my treatment plans because it’s just that effective. And if I’m honest? Around the clinic, I call it the “Let-That-Sh*t-Go Point.”
Patients love it when I talk about points in a way they can relate to. They couldn’t care less about traditional jargon like “Large Intestine 10 clears heat and disperses wind. Harmonizes the lung, intestines, and the stomach.”
What they really want to know is how it helps them in real life.
So I tell them the truth:
“This point helps your body let go of stuff—tension, toxins, thoughts, whatever you don’t need anymore.”
And that, they get.
Because honestly, every single person who walks through my door is holding onto something—shoulder tension, neck pain, sinus gunk, digestive sluggishness, or emotions that just won’t budge. LI 10 helps them release it all.
The Bigger Story of the Large Intestine Pathway 🌿
The Large Intestine pathway is your body’s built-in release valve. Physically, it keeps digestion and elimination on track. Energetically, it teaches the art of letting go.
This channel travels from the index finger up the arm, across the shoulder and neck, and ends beside the nose on the opposite side of the body—so it also influences the head, eyes, ears, nose, and throat.
Paired with the Lung pathway, it helps regulate the skin, breathing, and immune system—a team effort that keeps the whole upper body clear and resilient.
When energy here gets blocked, the symptoms are easy to spot: shoulder or neck tension, sinus pressure, headaches, digestive issues like bloating or constipation, and even a weakened immune response.
Emotionally, imbalance in this pathway can make people feel stuck—unable to release emotions or worries that no longer serve them. When it flows freely, the body exhales. Digestion eases, pain fades, and life simply feels lighter.
Why I Love LI 10 💖
Here’s where the giggle turns into a full-blown grin.
Large Intestine 10 Acupuncture Point is one of those points that covers so many bases it’s almost unfair.
Common Clinical Wins 🩺
It’s Easy to Access
Face up, face down, side-lying—it doesn’t matter—and it works fast.
It Relieves Muscle Tension
From a muscular perspective, LI 10 sits right in a high-traffic fascia zone connecting the forearm, shoulder, and thoracic spine. When that area tightens, everything from the scapula to the neck starts to complain. This point opens the line, frees the shoulder girdle, and suddenly patients can take a deep breath again.
It Creates Instant Relief 😌
I’ve seen patients walk in tight and guarded, then walk out feeling like somebody just hit the reset button. Shoulders drop. Breath deepens. Bellies gurgle back to life. Sometimes they even start to laugh—that spontaneous release that tells me the body just let go.
And honestly? That’s the best part.
When I place the needle, I’ll often whisper with a smile,
“Close your eyes, take a breath, and let that sh*t go.”
It’s amazing how often those words land right where they’re needed—body and soul. The patient exhales, the graph begins shifting behind the scenes, and the whole treatment takes on a rhythm that feels more like poetry than procedure.
That’s why I love LI 10. It’s not just a point—it’s an experience of release, a reminder that healing begins when we stop gripping so tightly and finally allow the flow.
Why It Matters for AcuGraph Users 📊
Here’s where my love for AcuGraph and my love for acupuncture pathways come together.
When you see an imbalance show up on the Large Intestine channel, don’t just move on—talk about it. Have a real-life conversation with your patient. The moment you open that door, you’ll be amazed at how much releasing they do—sometimes physically, sometimes emotionally, and sometimes both.
Large Intestine 10 Acupuncture Point is one of the ways I help patients move through the layers of a messy graph. It’s one of my favorite points for helping patients experience green graphs FASTER—a simple point with a big payoff.
When the Large Intestine pathway flows freely, the paired Lung channel follows. Suddenly, you’ve restored the body’s natural rhythm of inhale and exhale, receive and release.
Most of our patients arrive carrying layers of tension, inflammation, emotion, and history. Each layer adds resistance to flow in the acupuncture pathways. LI 10 gives you a quick, reliable way to start unwinding it all.
Your patients will thank you—sometimes literally, sometimes with a sigh, a smile, or a belly gurgle. After treatment, you’ll walk back into the room and see it: their breathing is easier, their shoulders have dropped, and there’s a calm you can feel in the space. That’s not coincidence; that’s the power of the acupuncture pathways.
That’s the magic of AcuGraph!
It allows us to see what our patients feel. It makes the invisible visible—showing us the flow, the balance, and the change.
Because at the end of the day, we’re not just chasing green graphs.
We’re chasing that moment when the body finally says,
“Ahh… I can let that go.”
That is the moment when green graphs naturally happen.
Closing Thoughts 🌟
Every time I share a point like this, my hope is that it reignites your love for what we do—the art, the science, and the mystery that lives in every treatment.
Large Intestine 10 reminds us that healing isn’t about forcing change; it’s about creating space for release. When Qi flows, graphs balance. When patients feel safe, they let go. And when that happens, measurable, trackable AcuGraph magic unfolds right before our eyes.
This post is just the beginning…
Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing more of my favorite points and the stories, insights, and giggles that come with them. My goal? To help you fall even more in love with the pathways—and to remind you that simplicity, connection, and presence create the most powerful medicine of all.
(And just between us… big things are coming in 2026!)
I’ll be reopening my Advanced AcuGraph Mentorship Program, where we’ll go even deeper into this kind of real-world, soul-fueled AcuGraph analysis. I can’t wait to share what’s ahead.
Until then, keep communicating what you see in the graph, trusting your intuition, and letting that sh*t go—one patient, one point, one pathway at a time.
Cheers,
~Dr. Kimberly
