Stomach back transport point.

[Origin]

Yu, Tongshu. The point corresponds to the stomach and is the back transport point of the stomach.

[Location]

Weishu (BL21) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "One inch and five minutes on each side below the twelfth vertebra."

[Anatomy]

• Muscles: between the lumbar membrane, longissimus and iliocostalis.
• Nerve: The medial cutaneous branch of the posterior branch of the twelfth thoracic nerve, and the deep layer is the lateral branch of the posterior branch.
• Vessel: the medial branch of the dorsal branch of the subcostal artery and vein.

[Manipulation]

perpendicular insertion or oblique insertion downward and to the side of the spine 0.5 to 1 inch. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 7 weeks, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10 to 15 minutes.

[Efficacy]

Strengthen the spleen and stomach, eliminate food retention.

• Classical: stomach cold in the middle, weight loss after eating too much, fullness in the abdomen, fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, vomiting, acute pain in the spine, inability to eat, dysentery, diarrhea, prolapse of rectum, tympanites, mouth Vomiting water, nausea, vomiting of milk in children.
• Modern: epigastralgia, gastritis, gastric dilatation, gastroptosis, peptic ulcer, pancreatitis, hepatitis, enteritis, insomnia.

[Recipe]

• Stomach cold in the middle bloating: eating too much and making the body thin: Weishu (BL21), Shenshu (BL23).
• Chronic gastritis: Zhongwan (CV12), Pishu (BL20), Weishu (BL21), Zusanli (ST36).
• Digestive ulcer: Zhongwan (CV12) through Shangwan (CV13), Weishu (BL21) through Pishu (BL20) .