【Category】
Xuehui, Zhenjiu Dacheng‧: "To treat blood diseases, Xinshu (BL15) is used as the upper cover, the heart controls blood; Ganshu (BL18) is used as the liver stores blood below; Therefore, Geshu (BL17) is the association of blood. Also, foot taiyang is full of blood, and blood is the symbol of water."
【Origin】
Literal meaning "diaphragm transporter". Diaphragm, diaphragm. Yu, Tongshu. The points correspond to the diaphragm.
【Location】
1.5 inches below the spinous process of the seventh thoracic vertebra (
Zhiyang (GV9) ) on the back, approximately level with the lower angle of the scapula.
- Lingshu‧Beishu: "Between the seven burners (vertebrae),...the body cun is one and a half inches apart."
【Anatomy】
- Muscles: lower edge of trapezius, latissimus dorsi, longissimus muscle (the lungs are inside the chest, when the lower lobe of the lungs).
- Nerve: The medial branch of the posterior branch of the seventh or eighth thoracic nerve is the cutaneous branch, and the deep layer is the lateral branch of the posterior branch.
- Vessel: The medial branch of the dorsal branch of the seventh intercostal artery and vein.
【Manipulation】
Oblique insertion 0.5~0.8 inches downward or to the side of the spine. It should not be too deep to avoid accidentally entering the chest and injuring the lungs. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 7 weeks, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10 to 15 minutes.
【Efficacy】
Wide chest and diaphragm, clear blood and heat.
- Classical: Back pain, aversion to cold, strong spine, difficulty in tilting, inability to eat, vomiting, excessive salivation, abdominal distension and fullness, epigastric pain, cough and vomiting, diaphragm, cold phlegm, laryngeal numbness, hematemesis, Incessant epistaxis, weakness and dizziness, blood-heat syndrome, perianal abscess hematochezia, consumptive disease, body-wide pain, madness, cold-heat bone pain, weak stomach and lack of food, pharyngeal swelling, inability to speak, and pain in the chest and hypochondrium.
- Modern: anemia, chronic tracheitis, hiccup, urticaria measles, wind-dampness arthritis.
【Recipe】
- Spitting up food: Geshu (BL17), Zhangmen (LR13), gastric tube (all moxibustion).
- Throat paralysis: Geshu (BL17), Jingqu (LU8).
- Anemia: Dazhui (GV14), Geshu (BL17), Weishu (BL21), Xuehai (SP10), Zusanli (ST36).
- Diaphragm spasm: Tiantu (CV22), Tanzhong (CV17), Juque (CV14), Geshu (BL17), Zusanli (ST36).
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