bubble_chart Etymology Spirit refers to the heart; Xu refers to the place. The seal of the gods and the ruins of the spirit are both related to the heart.
bubble_chart Location
Two cun lateral to the midline of the chest (
Yutang (CV18)), in the depression of the third intercostal space.
bubble_chart Anatomy
- Muscles: pectoralis major, external intercostal membrane, internal intercostal muscles. (The deep layer is the lungs, and the left side is the heart).
- Nerve: The anterior cutaneous branch of the third intercostal nerve, and the deep layer is the third intercostal nerve.
- Vessel: third intercostal artery and vein.
bubble_chart Manipulation
oblique insertion or transverse insertion 0.3~0.5 cun. Avoid deep insertion. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 5 minutes, moxibustion with moxa stick for 5 to 10 minutes.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Broad-chested and beneficial.
- Classical: Fullness of the middle branch of the chest, pain leading to inability to rest, nausea, confusion, irritability and fullness that cannot lie down, coughing, vomiting, and no craving for food.
- Modern: tachycardia, mastitis, costochondritis.
bubble_chart Combinations
- Costochondritis: Lingxu (KI24), Zhigou (TE6).
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