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[Category] _en.webp)
The red and white flesh border on the ulnar side of the palm, the depression between the base of the fifth metacarpal bone and the hamate bone. When the wrist is flexed, it is at the ulnar end of the distal wrist crease.
source point.
[Origin]
The point is close to Wangu (SI4), hence the name.
Wangu (SI4) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
- Lingshu‧Benshu: "Between Wangu (SI4) on the lateral side of the hand";
- Yixue Rumen: "Posterolateral protruding bone of the palm When sinking, make a fist and pull it inward. "
- Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "Houxi (SI3) The last two inches";
- Zhenjiu Jicheng: "Horizontal stripes on the back of the palm."
- Muscle: Abduct the outer edge of the origin of the digiti minimi muscle.
- Nerve: The dorsal palmar nerve of the ulnar nerve.
- Blood vessels: branches of the ulnar artery (dorsal carpal artery), venous network on the dorsum of the hand.
Perpendicular insertion 3 to 5 minutes. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 5 times, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10 to 15 minutes.
Soothe Taiyang (EX-HN5) meridian evil, clear small intestine dampness-heat.
- Classical: Rebing Inability to sweat, headache, stiff neck, swollen cheeks, pharyngitis, stuffy nose, vomiting, consumptive thirst, hypochondriac pain, jaundice, finger Pain in the arms, wrist pain, weakness, tinnitus, ocular nebula, deafness in the mouth, back and back, inability to bend and extend the elbows, discharge of tears, malaria, fever, inability to bend or extend the five fingers, excessive fire in the heart and small intestine, and depression.
- Modern: Dannang (EX-LE6) arthritis, elbow, wrist and finger arthritis, diabetes, gastritis.