bubble_chart Etymology "Qu" (曲) means bending; "yuan" (垣) means low wall, here describing the scapular spine. The point is located at the curved, medial end of scapular spine, hence the name.
bubble_chart Location
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Quyuan (SI13) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
In scapular region, at the depression on the medial end of supraspinous fossa, at the midpoint of the line connecting spinous process of 2nd thoracic vertebra and
Naoshu (SI10). Directly above
Jianjing (GB21).
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "In the center of shoulder, in the depression of the curved scapula";
- Zhenjiu Jicheng: "Between Jianjing (GB21) and Tianzong (SI11), slightly lateral".
bubble_chart Anatomy
- Muscles: trapezius, supraspinatus.
- Nerve: overlapping distribution of the lateral cutaneous branches of the posterior rami of 1st to 3rd thoracic nerves, accessory nerve, and branches of suprascapular nerve.
- Vessels: transverse cervical artery and vein, with deeper branches of suprascapular artery and vein.
bubble_chart Manipulation
Perpendicular or oblique insertion 0.5~1 cun. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 10 minutes, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Dispel wind.
- Classical: pain and Bi-syndrome around the scapula, heat and pain in shoulder and arm, in stiffness and pain shoulder and arm.
- Modern: shoulder periarthritis, supraspinatus tendonitis, subscapular neuralgia, cervical spondylosis.
bubble_chart Combinations
- Subscapular neuralgia: Quyuan (SI13), Naohui (TE13), Tianzong (SI11), Jianyu (LI15).
- Supraspinatus tendonitis: Quyuan (SI13), Binao (LI14), Yanglingquan (GB34) (all affected sides).
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