ACUPUNCTURE
Yu Zhen: TCM Acupoint Guide
YUZHEN
Name
Yu Zhen (Yuzhen)
Location
1.3 cun lateral to DU-17 Naohhu, on the lateral part of the upper margin of the external occipital protuberance.
Needling
- Transverse insertion, 0.5-1 cun.
- Slanted insertion, 0.3-0.5 cun.
Actions
- Expels wind and cold
- Alleviates pain
- Benefits the nose and eyes
Indications
- Occipital headache
- Pain from head wind that is difficult to endure
- Dizziness
- Neck pain with inability to turn the head and neck
- Aversion to wind
- Anhidrosis
- Heaviness of the head and neck
- A cold sensation in half of the head
- A cold head with copious sweating
- A red face
- Cheek pain
- Eye pain
- Bursting eye pain
- Near sightedness
- Nasal congestion
- Loss of the sense of smell
- Chills and fever
- Vomiting
- Madness
- Mad walking
- Epilepsy
- Collapse on sudden standing
- Myopia
- Vertigo
Notes
UB-9 Yuzhen is one of the ******Three Gates******, which includes DU-4 Mingmen and DU-1 Changqiang, which make up ******the small heavenly circuit****** used in qigong.
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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