ACUPUNCTURE
Si Man: TCM Acupoint Guide
SIMAN
Name
Si Man (Siman)
Location
On the lower abdomen, 2 cun below the umbilicus, 0.5 cun lateral to REN-5 Shimen.
Needling
- Puncture perpendicularly, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Straight insertion, 1 to 1.5 cun.
- Caution: deep needling may penetrate the peritoneal cavity.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Meeting point of the Chong channel
Actions
- Benefits the Lower Jiao
- Alleviates pain
- Regulates qi
- Moves blood stasis
- Regulates the water passages
- Promotes urination
Indications
- Abdominal pain and distention
- Diarrhea
- Nocturnal emission
- Irregular menstruation
- Dysmenorrhea
- Postpartum abdominal pain
- Uterine bleeding
- Malign blood with acute pain
- Accumulated cold in the uterus
- Infertility
- Retention of lochia
- White, turbid urethral discharge
- Pain of both lateral costal regions
- Redness and pain of the inner canthus
- Leukorrhea
- Sterility
- Urinary tract infection
- Lower abdominal pain and distention
- Shan disorder
- Cutting pain below the umbilicus
- Stone edema of the upper abdomen
- Edema
- Running piglet qi
- Pain of the kidneys
- Dysenteric disorder
- Water in the large intestine
- Constipation
- Cold shivering
- Seminal emission
Notes
The term malign blood refers to blood that has left the vessels and which pools and stagnates.
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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