NAME
LOCATION
On the midline of the spine at the base of the neck, in the depression below the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra., approximately at the level of the shoulders.
Between the spinous processes of the seventh cervical vertebra and the first thoracic vertebra.
NEEDLING
Perpendicular-oblique superior insertion 0.5-1 cun. Sensation: Local distention and soreness extending downward to both shoulders.
Caution: The spinal cord lies between 1.25 and 1,75 cm below the skin surface , varying according to body build. If an electric sensation, numb sensation is felt in the limbs the needle should be immediately withdrawn.
Moxibustion is applicable according to age (e.g. if 30 years old use 30 cones)
COMMAND FUNCTIONS
Meeting point of the Governing channel with the six Yang channels of the hands and feet
Point of the ******Sea of Qi******
Influential point of Yang
ACTIONS
Expels Wind and Wind-Heat (Relieves the Exterior)
Firms the Exterior (Tonifies Protective Wei Qi)
Regulates Nutritive and Defensive Q
Clears fire, Heat and summerheat
Reduces fever
Treats malaria
Tonifies Deficiency
Pacifies Wind
Opens the Yang
Regulates the Yang channels
Clears the brain (mind)
Calms the Shen
Facilitates Qi flow
Regulates Qi
Tonifies Yang
Restores collapsed Yin
Relaxes the sinews
INDICATIONS
Injury by Cold leading to a high fever with agitation and vomiting
Common cold due to Wind-Heat
Aversion to Wind with shivering, chills and fever
Warm malaria
Alternating chills and fever
Malarial disorders
Intermittent fever
Tidal fevers
Throat painful obstruction (throat Bi)
Fullness of the chest and lateral costal region with depression
Deficiency sweating
Night sweats
Streaming bone disorder
Heat in the bones with recurrent fever
Lack of strength
Physical weakness
Asthenia
Does not want to speak
Shortness of breath with inability to speak
Afternoon fever
Febrile convulsions
Cough
Bronchitis
Whooping cough (pertussis)
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Five types of tuberculosis
Dyspnea
Tuberculosis due to Wind
Psychosis
Headache
Eczema and urticaria due to wind-Heat
Pain in the back of the shoulder
Extreme Dryness of the teeth of the upper jaw, especially the incisors
Mania
Melancholia
Emphysema
Muscular tetany
All febrile diseases
Hemiplegia
Asthma
Fullness in the Lungs
The five taxations
The seven injuries (types of contusion)
Wind taxation (chronic Bi leading to exhaustion of Qi and Blood)
Pain of the hundred joints
Epilepsy
Seizures
Infantile convulsions
Chronic and acute childhood fright Wind
Hypertension
Insomnia
Hematemesis
Epistaxis that does not stop
Stiffness of the spine
Stiffness of the nape of the neck with inability to turn the head
Neck pain
Neck rigidity
Torticollis
Spasms of the neck muscles
Jaundice
Hepatitis
Vomiting
Sensations of energy rising to the upper part of the body
Heat stroke
Hysteria
Blood diseases
Hemiplegia
Congested throat
Osseous tuberculosis with Yang symptoms and Dryness of the upper incisors
Atrophy (Wei) syndrome due to Lung Heat
Closed-type coma
Heat Bi with fever
COMBINATIONS
| SI-3 Houxi PC-5 Jianshi LI-11 Quchi | SI-3 Houxi LI-11 Quchi | DU-2 Yaoshu |
| Malaria with much Heat and little Cold | Malaria with much Cold and little Heat | Malaria |
| LI-11 Quchi GB-39 Xuanzhong ST-36 Zusanli KI-1 Yongquan LI-4 Hegu | PC-5 Jianshi ST-18 Rugen | KI-7 Fuliu UB-43 (moxa) Gaohuangshu |
| Injury by Cold with great Heat that does not recede (use reduction technique) | Spleen Cold malaria | Spontaneous sweating |
| DU-15 Yamen | UB-13 Feishu UB-18 Ganshu | GB-20 Fengchi LI-11 Quchi |
| Epistaxis (use moxibustion) | Overlapping Tai Yang and Shao Yang patterns | Influenza |
| N-BW-8 Ganrexue ST-40 Fenglong | LI-11 Quchi ST-36 Zusanli UB-20 Pishu SP-6 Sanyinjiao | DU-13 Taodao M-BW-5 Erzhuisha DU-12 Shenzhu |
| Bronchitis | Leukopenia | Psychosis |
| DU-2 Yaoshu | LI-11 Quchi | |
| Tidal fevers | Lowers fever |
CONTRAINDICATIONS
NOTES
This is a major point for lowering fever. This point has a unique ability to clear pathogens from the Tai Yang, Shao Yang and Yang Ming stages. This is one of the principle points to treat sweating. This point is often needled toward either shoulder when neck pain radiates laterally. This point induces everything into action. This point can have opposite effects depending on the needling method used. With reducing method, it releases the Exterior fo treating wind-Heat, regulates the Ying and the Wei and clears Interior Heat. With reinforcing method, or with moxa, it tonifies Yang, especially Heart Yang, clears the mind and stimulates the brain.