bubble_chart Etymology Soul, soul. Lingshu-Benshen: "function of consciousness appears along with spiritual activities being called s". door, portal. The "liver storing blood, blood house soul" point is outside Ganshu (BL18), hence the name.
bubble_chart Location
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Hunmen (BL47) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
3 cun below the spinous process of the 9th thoracic vertebra on the back (
Jinsuo (GV8)), inside and
Ganshu (BL18) Even.
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "In the area where there is a three-cun depression on each side of the ninth vertebrae."
bubble_chart Anatomy
- Muscles: latissimus dorsi, iliocostalis (the lungs are inside the chest).
- Nerves: Lateral branches of the posterior branches of the eighth and ninth thoracic nerves.
- Vessel: dorsal branches of the ninth intercostal artery and vein.
bubble_chart Manipulation
oblique insertion 0.5～0.8 cun. It should not be too deep to avoid accidentally entering the chest and injuring the lungs. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 5 times, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Soothing liver invigorates the body, harmonizes the body and strengthens the stomach.
- Classical: Fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, heart pain in the chest and back, fluid retention, inability to eat, vomiting, excessive salivation, thunder in the abdomen, irregular bowel movements, yellow and red urine, difficulty digesting cold stomach food, muscular spasm bone pain , joint pain all over the body.
- Modern: Night blindness.
bubble_chart Combinations
- Difficult to digest after cold stomach food: Hunmen (BL47), Weishu (BL21).
- vomiting: Hunmen (BL47), Yaoyangguan (GV3).
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