ACUPUNCTURE
Wei Dao: TCM Acupoint Guide
WEIDAO
Name
Wei Dao (Weidao)
Location
0.5 cun anterior and slightly below the anterior superior iliac spine, below GB-27 Wushu.
Needling
- Perpendicular insertion, 1 to 1.5 cun.
- Straight insertion, 1 to 2 cun.
- Puncture perpendicularly, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Meeting point with the Dai channel
Actions
- Regulates the Dai channel
- Regulates the Lower Jiao
- Transforms stagnation
Indications
- Uterine prolapse
- Irregular menstruation
- Leukorrhea
- No pleasure in eating
- Adnexitis
- Pain of intestinal hernia
- Colitis
- Ascites
- Lower back pain
- Pain of the back and ilium
- Lower abdominal pain
- Shan disorder
- Vomiting
- Endometritis
- Chronic constipation
- Edema
- Endometriosis
- Uterovaginal spasms
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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