ACUPUNCTURE
Chi Ze: TCM Acupoint Guide
CHIZE
Name
Chi Ze (Chize)
Location
With the elbow slightly flexed, on the transverse cubital crease, just lateral to the tendon of the biceps brachii muscle. Note: locate slightly lateral to the tendon rather than immediately next to it, and needle with the elbow slightly flexed, avoiding the cubital vein.
Needling
- Straight insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness or an electric, numb sensation extending toward the forearm.
- Puncture perpendicularly, 0.5 to 1 cun.
Command Functions
- Water point
- He-Sea point
- Sedation point
- Uniting point
Actions
- Disperses Lung Heat
- Descends Rebellious qi
- Expels Phlegm from the Lungs
- Benefits the Bladder
- Regulates the water passages
- Activates the channel
- Relaxes the sinews
- Alleviates pain
- Stops bleeding
Indications
- Pulmonary edema
- Weak Bladder
- Pleurisy
- Fear
- Grief
- Depression
- Weeping
- Tendency toward sadness
- Spasms in the arm muscles
- Difficulty lifting the arm
- Shortness of breath
- Pain and stiffness of the lumbar region
- Sensation of fullness in the chest
- Infantile convulsions
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Erysipelas
- Chest pain
- Upper Jiao wasting and thirsting
- Atrophy syndrome due to Lung Heat
- Dry cough
- Mastitis
- Yellow sputum
- Cough with Excess white sticky phlegm and chilliness
- Coughing phlegm
- Wheezing
- Agitation and fullness of the chest
- Spitting Blood
- Epistaxis
- Hematemesis
- Enuresis
- Frequent urination
- Coldness of the shoulder
- Pain of the upper arm and shoulder
- Inability to raise the arm to the head
- Wandering Bi of the elbow and upper arm
- Restricted movement of the elbow
- Difficulty opening and extending the hand
- Crane's knee swelling and pain
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Oppression
- Muscular spasms of the forearm
- Cholera
- Hemiplegia
- Quadriplegia
- Madness
- Intercostal inflammation
- Kidney pain
- Rigidity and spasms of the spine
- Bronchitis with much mucus
- Palpitations
- Pneumonia
- Rheumatism of the throat and neck
- Bouts of sneezing
- Wind after perspiration
- Wind-predominant Bi
- Affliction of the throat
- Dyspnea
- Dry mouth
- Cough
- Intermittent fever and chills
- Sudden swelling of the four limbs
- Hemoptysis
- Swelling and pain of the throat
- Swelling and pain of the elbow and arm
- Childhood nutritional impairment
- Vomiting
- Psoriasis
- Afternoon fever due to Lung Yin Deficiency
- Thirst
- Whooping cough
- Retention of urine due to Obstruction of the Lungs by Damp-Phlegm
- Tidal fever
- Taxation fever
- Shivering
- Malaria
- Diarrhea
- Abdominal distention
- Pain of the lateral costal area
- Heart pain
- Agitation of the Heart
- Sobbing with grief
- Acute and chronic childhood fright Wind
- Clonic spasm
- Elbow pain
- The five types of lumbar pain
- Tennis elbow
- Fullness of the Lungs
- Pharynx and larynx swollen and painful
- Shoulder and scapula neuralgia
- Breast abscess
- Facial nerve paralysis
- Injury by Cold
- General loss of sensitivity
- Atony of the Bladder
- Stiffness of the vertebral column
Combinations
| Points | Indications |
|---|---|
| LI-11 Quchi | Spasms and pain in the elbow |
| SI-1 Shaoze | Irritability, shortness of breath, pain of the lateral costal region, agitation of the Heart |
| DU-14 Dazhui joined to N-BW-6 Dazhui joined to Jiehexue, REN-20 joined to REN-21 Huagai joined to Xuanji | Pulmonary tuberculosis |
| UB-40 Weizhong (prick) | Erysipelas |
| ST-40 Fenglong | Chronic bronchitis due to Phlegm-Heat in the Lungs |
| KI-7 Fuliu | Lung Heat injuring the Body Fluids |
| ST-40 Fenglong, LU-10 Yuji | Second stage of whooping cough |
| SP-9 Yinlingquan, REN-3 Zhongji | Retention of urine due to Obstruction of the Lungs by Damp-Phlegm |
| ST-40 Fenglong, LU-1 Zhongfu | Excess Heat characterized by fullness of the chest and expectoration of yellow, green or brown phlegm |
| LU-9 Taiyuan, UB-43 Gaohuangshu, KI-3 Taixi | Deficiency Heat with dry mouth and tongue and tidal or taxation fever |
| ST-40 Fenglong, PC-7 Daling | Shortness of breath |
| LU-10 Yuji (reduce) | Any type of spitting Blood, reinforce Chize |
| GB-38 Yangfu or SJ-10 Tianjing, HT-3 Shaohai, UB-40 Weizhong, GB-38 Yangfu | Wind-predominant Bi |
| LI-11 Quchi, SJ-4 Yangchi, LI-4 Hegu, SJ-3 Zhongzhu | Contraction of the arm with tightness of the sinews of both hands resulting in inability to open the hands |
| UB-17 Geshu, UB-45 Yixi, UB-63 Jinmen | Contraction and Cold of the shoulder and back with pain of the inner aspect of the scapula |
| DU-26 Renzhong, UB-40 Weizhong, then needle UB-60 Kunlun, UB-65 Shugu, SJ-6 Zhigou, GB-34 Yanglingquan | Pain of the lumbar and lateral costal regions due to sprain |
Contraindications
Use moxibustion with caution.
Notes
Helps detoxify a patient after longtime use of aspirin. Used for all Excess or Deficient conditions characterized by Heat in the Lungs. Preferable to LI-11 Quchi for tennis elbow.
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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