【Category】
Heart back transport point. Lingshu‧Weiqi: "The origin of hand shaoyang is at the end of the sharp bone, marked on the back."
【Origin】
Literal meaning "heart transporter". The acupoint corresponds to the heart and is the back transport point of the heart.
【Location】
1.5 inches below the spinous process of the fifth thoracic vertebra (
Shendao (GV11) ) on the back.
- Lingshu‧Beishu: "Between the five burners (vertebrae)... hold the spine three inches apart";
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "One inch and five minutes on each side under the fifth vertebra";
- Suwen-Xieqi Xingzhi article BOOK>: "If you want to know how to carry Shu, first go between his two breasts and fold them in the middle; then use another piece of grass to cut off half of them, that is, use the two corners to lean against each other. Then lift them up to cross his back, and make one corner of his body sit on top. Qiji Dazhui (GV14); the two corners are at the bottom. When the lower corner is, it is the Shu of the lung; when it is lower grade I, it is the Shu of the heart." It is equivalent to next to the spinous process of the sixth thoracic vertebra. Open two inches to determine the acupoint. Qianjin Yaofang: "The seventh section of Yiyun, facing the heart is Sanjian (LI3) inches across."
【Anatomy】
- Muscles: trapezius, rhomboids, longissimus muscle deep (inside the chest is the lower lobe of the lung).
- Nerve: The medial cutaneous branch of the posterior branch of the fifth or sixth thoracic nerve, and the deep layer is the lateral branch of the posterior branch.
- Vessel: the medial branch of the dorsal branch of the fifth intercostal artery and vein.
【Manipulation】
Oblique insertion 0.5~0.8 inches downward or beside the spine. It should not be too deep to avoid accidentally entering the chest and injuring the lungs. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 5 times, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10 to 15 minutes.
【Efficacy】
Calms the mind, soothes the nerves, and relieves the heat of five zang-organs.
- Classical: cold and heat, heart pain, chest discomfort, cough, hematemesis, vomiting, not eating, malaria, epilepsy, night sweating, blindness, amnesia, shortness of breath, abdominal distension and fullness, indigestion , epistaxis, hypochondriac pain, excessive salivation, choking, jaundice, heartache, back pain, consumptive disease, hematochezia, dysphagia, back gangrene, eye pain, eye pain, blurred vision, white of the eye, consumptive disease .
- Modern: heart disease, lower consumptive thirst, gastrointestinal bleeding, neurasthenia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, intercostal neuralgia, bronchitis, arrhythmia.
【Recipe】
- cardiac distension: Xinshu (BL15), Lieque (LU7).
- wind epilepsy often occurs: Shendao (GV11), Xinshu (BL15).
- Eye pain: Xinshu (BL15), Yin Qiao.
- Coughing up saliva: Xinshu (BL15), Ganshu (BL18), Quepen (ST12), Juque (CV14) , Jiuwei (CV15).
- Crazy: Xinshu (BL15);, Shenmen (HT7).
- nocturnal emission: Xinshu (BL15), Shenshu (BL23).
- insomnia: Xinshu (BL15), Weishu (BL21), Zhongwan (CV12), Shenmen (HT7), Fenglong (ST40).
- Irregular heartbeat: Xinshu (BL15), Shenmen (HT7), Neiguan (PC6), Yanglingquan (GB34) Through Yinlingquan (SP9).
- palpitation, severe palpitation: Xinshu (BL15), Juque (CV14), Shenmen (HT7), Neiguan (PC6 ).
- Epilepsy syndrome: Xinshu (BL15), Ganshu (BL18), Pishu (BL20), Shenmen (HT7), Fenglong (ST40).
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