Stomach back transport point.

bubble_chart Etymology

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

bubble_chart Location

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

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

bubble_chart 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.

bubble_chart Manipulation

perpendicular insertion or oblique insertion downward and to the side of the spine 0.5 to 1 cun. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 7 times, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.

bubble_chart 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.

bubble_chart Combinations

• 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) .