Kidney back transport point. Lingshu-Weiqi: "foot shaoyin...marked on Beishu and sublingual veins".

bubble_chart Etymology

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

bubble_chart Location

Shenshu (BL23) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

1.5 cun below the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra (Mingmen (GV4)) , approximately level with the lower end of the rib arch.

• Lingshu-Beishu: "Between the fourteen jiao (vertebrae), they are all separated by three cun from each other by the spine."
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing BOOK>: "One and a half cun below the fourteenth vertebra";
• Qianjin Yaofang: "On both sides of the navel."

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Muscles: between the lumbar membrane, longissimus and iliocostalis.
• Nerve: The medial branch of the posterior branch of the first lumbar nerve, and the deep layer is the lateral branch of the posterior branch and the lumbar plexus.
• Vessel: The medial branch of the dorsal branch of the second lumbar artery and vein.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Perpendicular insertion or oblique insertion 1 to 2 cun downward or to the side of the spine. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 7 times, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Benefit kidney qi, sharpen the waist and spine, and improve the ears and eyes.

• Classical: consumptive disease: Thin, yellowish-black face, lumpago, tinnitus, deafness, seminal emission, spontaneous seminal emission, tightness of ankles and knees, edema, difficulty in urination, bloody urine, heavy head and body heat, cold feet Such as ice, irregular menstruation, red leucorrhea, pain of vulva, diarrhea, consumptive thirst, chronic cough disease, foot cramps, vomiting, heart pain, such as hanging, flank pain, acute pain in the lower abdomen, red face, hot urination Turbid red, enuresis, blind eyes, paralysis of limbs, cold sperm and childlessness.
• Modern: nephritis, renal colic, proteinuria, nephroptosis, anemia, sequelae of polio, hypertension, diabetes, urinary tract infection.

bubble_chart Combinations

• kidney deficiency deafness: Tinghui (GB2), Shenshu (BL23).
• Impotence: Qihai (CV6), Shenshu (BL23).
• Chest and diaphragm stay static blood: Juliao (ST3), Shenshu (BL23).
• Kidney failure and waist deficiency and frequent urination: Mingmen (GV4), Shenshu (BL23).
• consumptive disease Edema: Shenshu (BL23), Taichong (LR3).
• seminal emission white turbidity: Guanyuan (CV4), Shenshu (BL23), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
• Nephritis: Zhongji (CV3), Zigong (EX-CA1), Shenshu (BL23), Feiyang (BL58) , Sanyinjiao (SP6), Fuliu (KI7).
• Urinary tract infection: Zhongji (CV3), Shenshu (BL23), Pangguangshu (BL28), Sanyinjiao (SP6) .
• Diabetes: Shenshu (BL23), Guanyuan (CV4), Zusanli (ST36).