Jing-well (wood) point.

bubble_chart Etymology

"Shao" (少), refers to hand shaoyin heart meridian (HT); "chong" (衝), important pathway. The point belongs to jing-well point of hand shaoyin heart meridian (HT) and is located at the tip of the little finger, hence its name. It is also known as "Jingshi" (經始) (Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing), with a similar meaning.

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Shaochong (HT9) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "At the inner edge of the tip of little finger, about the width of a leek leaf from the corner of fingernail." This refers to a depression located 1 fen behind the radial corner of little finger's nail.

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Nerve: The proper palmar digital nerve (a branch of the ulnar nerve).
• Vessels: The arterial and venous network formed by the proper palmar digital arteries and veins.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Insert superficially 0.2 to 0.3 cun, or perform a prick to induce bleeding.

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Open heart orifice, clear mind, revive consciousness from collapse, dispel pathogenic heat.

• Classical: heart pain, palpitation, jaundice, chest and hypochondriac pain, sadness and fear, susceptibility to fright, pharyngitis, restlessness and irritability during febrile disease, stroke, heat in mouth, pain at root of tongue, sore throat, alternating chills and fever, inability to extend hand, heat in palm, pain in palm.
• Modern: myocarditis, laryngitis, shock.

bubble_chart Combinations

• Heat in mouth: Shaochong (HT9), Dazhong (KI4).
• Fever: Shaochong (HT9), Quchi (LI11).