ACUPUNCTURE
Bu Rong: TCM Acupoint Guide
BURONG
Name
Bu Rong (Burong)
Location
On the abdomen, 2 cun lateral to the midline and 6 cun superior to the umbilicus, level with REN-14 Juque.
Needling
- Puncture perpendicularly, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Caution: deep insertion may injure the heart on the left or the liver on the right if either of these organs is enlarged.
- Perpendicular insertion, 0.5 to 0.8 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Actions
- Harmonizes the Middle Jiao
- Lowers rebellion
- Descends qi
- Alleviates cough and wheezing
Indications
- Vomiting
- Gastric pain
- Anorexia
- Obsessions
- Stuck ideas
- Cough
- Dyspnea
- Difficult breathing with raised shoulders
- Dry mouth
- Nausea due to cholecystitis or cholelithiasis
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Abdominal distention
- Epigastric pain
- Hematemesis
- Abdominal deficiency
- Borborygmus
- Pain of the chest, back, shoulder and intercostal region
- Heart pain
- Hypochondriac pain due to cholecystitis or cholelithiasis
Notes
This point affects the basic rhythms of life. Its name refers to the inability of the stomach to retain its contents.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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