Gn, the bulging muscles next to the spine. The point is within the diaphragm muscle, facing Zhongji (CV3) in front, hence its name. (Lingshu‧Cijie Zhenxie is named "中膂", Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing is named "Zhongluneishu")

[Location]

Zhonglushu (BL29) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "One inch and five minutes on each side of the twentieth vertebra; it rises by the prominent muscle of the spine." UL>

  [Anatomy]

  • Muscle: gluteus maximus.
  • Nerves: Lateral branches of the posterior branches of the first, second, third, and fourth sacral nerves.
  • Vessels: lateral branches of the posterior branches of the lateral sacral artery and vein and branches of the inferior gluteal artery and vein.

  [Manipulation]

  Perpendicular insertion 1～1.5 inches. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 7 weeks, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10 to 15 minutes.

  [Efficacy]

  Strengthen the waist and stop diarrhea.

  • Classical: Lumbar pain, abdominal distension and fullness, hypochondriac pain, dysentery, kidney deficiency consumptive thirst, axillary spasm, hernia pain.
  • Modern: sciatica, lower limb paralysis, erectile dysfunction.

  [Recipe]

  • Abdominal distension and fullness: Geshu (BL17), Zhonglushu (BL29), Heehee.
  • dysentery: Zhonglushu (BL29), Hegu (LI4), Zusanli (ST36).