cleft point.

[Origin]

Che, pore; door, portal. The acupuncture point is the hand reverting yin pericardium meridian (PC), which is where the divine energy comes in and out, hence the name.

[Location]

Ximen (PC4) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "Remove five inches from the wrist",
• Xunjing Kaoxue Bian added "between the two tendons".

[Anatomy]

• Muscles: flexor carpi radialis on the radial side, palmaris longus tendon on the ulnar side; flexor digitorum superficialis, and flexor digitorum profundus on the deep side.
• Nerve: Medial cutaneous nerve of the forearm, the deep layer is the median nerve, and the deepest layer is the interosseous palmar nerve of the forearm.
• Vessels: median forearm vein and median artery, deep layers are interosseous arteries and veins on the volar side of the forearm.

[Manipulation]

Perpendicular insertion 0.5~1 inch. Care should be taken to avoid injury to the median nerve trunk (especially when performing acupoint injections). moxa cone moxibustion 5~7 strong, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10~15 minutes.

[Efficacy]

It calms the mind, calms the nerves and relieves heat.

• Classical: heart pain, palpitation, chest pain, expectation of blood, vomiting, hematemesis, madness, panic, fear of people, lack of energy, consumptive malaria, five heart upsets, elbow and arm spasms, boil and sore, chest ulcer, chronic hemorrhoids, epistaxis.
• Modern: wind-dampness heart disease, myocarditis, coronary artery disease, angina, tachycardia, pleurisy, diaphragmatic spasm.

[Recipe]

• hemoptysis: Quchi (LI11), Ximen (PC4), Sanyangluo (TE8).