Tian, ​​high place; Zong, Zong Yang. In ancient times, the star Riyue (GB24) was named Tianzong (SI11), and the point is located high on the shoulder blades on the upper back, hence the name.

[Location]

Tianzong acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "After Bingfeng (SI12), the big bones are sunken."
• Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "It should be that the shoulder plate bone is sunken";
• Suwen's direct explanation: "Three inches below the shoulder blade, the two Tianzong (SI11) points are separated from each other Bingfeng (SI12) Three inches.

[Anatomy]

• Muscle: Infraspinatus (deep on the back of the scapula).
• Nerve: Suprascapular nerve.
• Vessels: circumflex scapular artery, venous muscular branches.

[Manipulation]

Lower and outer oblique insertion 0.5~1.5 inches. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 5 times, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10 to 15 minutes.

[Efficacy]

Relieve Taiyang (EX-HN5) menstrual evil, and relieve qi stagnation in the chest and hypochondrium.

• Classical: heavy shoulders, pain in the elbows and arms that cannot be lifted, fullness of the chest and hypochondrium, cough, swollen cheeks and jaw, shoulder blade pain, and back pain.
• Modern: Mastitis, mammary gland hyperplasia, postpartum lactation, periarthritis of shoulder, Laozhen.

[Recipe]

• Arm pain: Tianzong (SI11), Shouwuli (LI13).
• Subscapular nerve palsy: Tianzong (SI11), Naoshu (SI10), Jianliao (TE14), Naohui (TE13 ).
• Periarthritis of shoulder: Tianzong (SI11), Jianyu (LI15), Jianliao (TE14), Yanglingquan (GB34 ).
• Shoulder blade pain: Tianzong (SI11), Bingfeng (SI12), Jianwaishu (SI14), Gaohuangshu (BL43).
• Mastitis, postpartum lactation: Tanzhong (CV17), Rugen (ST18), Tianzong (SI11), Shaoze (SI1).