ACUPUNCTURE
You Men: TCM Acupoint Guide
YOUMEN
Name
You Men (Youmen)
Location
On the abdomen, 0.5 cun lateral to REN-14 Juque, 6 cun above the umbilicus.
Needling
- Perpendicular insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Caution: deep needling, especially in thin patients, will puncture the liver on the right side and the peritoneum on the left.
- Straight insertion, 0.7 to 1 cun.
- Puncture perpendicularly, 0.3 to 0.7 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Meeting point of the Chong channel
Actions
- Fortifies the spleen
- Harmonizes the stomach
- Lowers rebellion
- Spreads liver qi
- Benefits the chest and breasts
- Alleviates pain
Indications
- Abdominal pain
- Lower abdominal pain
- Vomiting
- Nausea
- Counterflow qi
- Retching
- Vomiting of foamy saliva
- Much spittle
- Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
- Fullness with no pleasure in eating
- Difficult ingestion
- Focal distention below the heart
- Diarrhea
- Blood in the stools
- Dysenteric disorder
- Indigestion
- Chest pain
- Distention of the lateral costal region
- Pain of the chest and lateral costal region radiating to the back
- Coughing
- Hemoptysis
- Heart pain in women
- Poor memory
- Redness of the eyes originating at the inner canthus
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Distended stomach
- Stomach spasms
- Chronic gastritis
- Abdominal distention
- Morning sickness
Notes
This point is used to maintain the balance of life.
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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