ACUPUNCTURE
Zhong Chong: TCM Acupoint Guide
ZHONGCHONG
Name
Zhong Chong (Zhongchong)
Location
At the center of the tip of the middle finger. Note: sometimes located at the radial side of the middle finger, at the junction of the lines drawn along the radial border of the nail and the base of the nail, approximately 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail.
Needling
- Perpendicular or oblique insertion, 0.1 to 0.2 cun.
- Prick to bleed.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Jing-well point of the Pericardium channel
- Wood point of the Pericardium channel
- Tonification point of the Pericardium channel
- Ting point
Actions
- Clears Heat from the Pericardium
- Revives consciousness
- Clears the Heart
- Pacifies the Heart
- Clears Heart Fire
- Clears Heat
- Reduces fever
- Benefits the tongue
- Clears Summerheat
- Expels Interior Wind
- Restores collapsed Yang
Indications
- Windstroke
- Injury by Summerheat
- Loss of consciousness
- Fever
- Fever with agitation and oppression
- Heat in the body like fire
- Headache
- Hypertension
- Vomiting and diarrhea
- Epigastric pain
- Childhood nutritional impairment
- Angina pectoris
- Cardiac pain with a sensation of fullness and irritability
- Cardiac inflammation
- Carditis
- Infantile convulsions
- Deafness
- Stiffness, swelling and pain of the tongue
- Aphasia with tongue stiffness
- Sublingual sarcoma
- High fever
- Fever with no sweat
- All Yang diseases with fever and chest malaise, without sweat
- Vertigo
- Fainting
- Hypotension
- Profuse sweating
- People who have difficulty expressing themselves
- Palpitations
- Chest pain
- Pain at the root of the tongue
- Stiffness of the tongue
- Inability to speak
- Nighttime crying in children
- Heart pain
- Agitation of the Heart
- Oppression of the Heart with absence of sweating
- Heat of the palms
- Tinnitus
- Sudden turmoil disorder
- Nervousness
- Irritability
- Apoplectic coma
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Cerebral hyperemia
- Cerebral congestion
- Shock
- Emergency care
- Heat exhaustion
- Heat stroke
- Wind-Cold with headache, the body literally burning and very hot palms
- Infantile parasitosis
- Mental disorders
- Acute diseases due to perverse Wind
- Epileptic seizures
- Arterial hypotension
- Uncontrollable sexual habits, possibly with no affection
- Swelling of the underside of the tongue
- Gastric pain
Combinations
| Points | Indications |
|---|---|
| DU-26 Renzhong, LI-4 Hegu; if ineffective, DU-15 Yamen, LIV-1 Dadun | Loss of consciousness from Windstroke |
| REN-23 Lianquan | Swelling and pain below the tongue |
| LU-11 Shaoshang, LU-10 Yuji, DU-15 Yamen, LI-2 Erjian, KI-10 Yingu, KI-2 Rangu | Stiffness of the tongue |
| HT-6 Yinxi | Heart pain with fullness and agitation and a stiff tongue |
| LIV-14 Qimen, DU-1 Changqiang, REN-22 Tiantu, LU-4 Xiabai | Pain of the Heart with shortness of breath |
| DU-4 Mingmen | Heat in the body like Fire and a splitting headache |
Notes
This point is especially suitable for restoring consciousness. Bleed it for emergency treatment.
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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