Heart back transport point. Lingshu‧Weiqi: "The origin of hand shaoyang is at the end of the sharp bone, marked on the back."

bubble_chart Etymology

The acupoint corresponds to the heart and is the back transport point of the heart.

bubble_chart Location

Xinshu (BL15) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Lingshu‧Beishu: "Between the five burners (vertebrae)... hold the spine three cun apart";
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing >: "One cun and five fen on each side below the fifth vertebra";
• Suwen‧Xieqi Xingzhi Chapter: "If you want to know Beishu, first go between the two breasts. , fold it in the middle; use the grass to cut it halfway, that is, use the two corners to lean on each other, and then lift it to cross its back: let one corner sit on top and reach the spine Dazhui (GV14); The two corners are at the bottom. The lower corner is the Shu of the lung; the lower corner is the Shu of the heart." This is equivalent to opening a fixed point two cun next to the spinous process of the sixth thoracic vertebra.
• Qianjin Yaofang‧: "One cloud in the seventh section, facing the heart is Sanjian (LI3) cun across."

bubble_chart 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.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Oblique insertion 0.5~0.8 cun downward or beside the spine. It should not be too deep to avoid accidentally entering the chest and injuring the lungs. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 5 times, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Calms the mind, soothes the nerves, and relieves the heat of five zang-organs.

• Classical: Hanre, heart pain, upset, 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, backache, hematochezia, dysphagia, back gangrene, eye pain, eye pain, blurred vision, white of the eye red, consumptive disease.
• Modern: heart disease, lower consumptive thirst, gastrointestinal bleeding, neurasthenia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, intercostal neuralgia, bronchitis, arrhythmia.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

bubble_chart Combinations

• 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).