ACUPUNCTURE
Jing Qu: TCM Acupoint Guide
JINGQU
Name
Jing Qu (Jingqu)
Location
Above the wrist, 1 cun proximal to LU-9 Taiyuan, in the depression at the base of the styloid process of the radius and on the radial side of the radial artery.
Needling
- Puncture perpendicularly, 0.1 to 0.3 cun.
- Caution: avoid puncturing the radial artery.
- Oblique proximal or perpendicular insertion, 0.3 to 0.5 cun, avoiding the radial artery.
- Slanted insertion, 0.5 to 0.7 cun.
Command Functions
- Jing-river point
- Metal point
- Horary point
Actions
- Descends lung qi
- Alleviates cough and wheezing
Indications
- Palms hot and dry or hot and moist
- Sudden cardiac pain
- Intermittent fever
- Excessive phlegm
- All lung and throat conditions
- Intermittent fever and chills
- Stiffness of the back and chest
- Fullness sensation in the chest
- Chest pain with vomiting
- Chest pain radiating to the upper back
- Esophageal spasm or pain
- Malaria
- Much yawning
- Bronchitis
- Cough
- Asthma
- Fever
- Chest pain
- Sore throat
- Wrist pain
- Dyspnea
- Wind attack
- Intermittent suffocation
- Wheezing
- Throat bi
- Febrile disease with breathlessness
- Pain in the soles of the feet
Contraindications
Moxibustion is forbidden on this point.
Notes
This point carries away poisons. In Japanese and Korean acupuncture, this point is used to control an overactive liver in the four needle technique.
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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