[Category]
Ying (fire) point.
[Origin]
Lao, work; palace, center. The palms work hard to grasp, and the holes live in them, hence the name.
[Location]
Houxi, Laogong, Zhongzhu, Laozhenacupoint cross sections
(quoted from "Yan Zhenguo acupoint anatomy")
Laogong acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
In the palm of the hand, between the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal bones and offset to the mid-palmar crease of the 3rd metacarpal bone, the tip of the middle finger when making a fist and flexing the fingers Pointed at.
- Lingshu‧Benshu: "In the palm, within this section of the middle finger";
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "In the central artery of the palm "Middle";
- Bronze Man acupoint acupuncture and moxibustion Illustrated Book: "Take it by bending the ring finger",
- Zhenjiu Zishengjing: "Take it by bending the middle finger. "Yes, now it is wrong to bend the fourth finger."
- Shisijing Fahui: "Looking at it now, it is better to bend the middle finger and the ring finger." Now most of them are from Zhenjiu Zishengjing.
[Anatomy]
- Muscles: palmar tendon membrane, second lumbrical muscle and superficial and deep flexor digitorum tendons, the deep layer is the origin of the transverse head of the adductor pollicis muscle, the first palmar interosseous muscle, the second dorsal interosseous muscle Lateral muscles.
- Nerve: The second volar proper nerve of the median nerve.
- Vessel: Refers to the common palmar artery.
[Manipulation]
Perpendicular insertion 0.3~0.5 inches. Direct moxibustion is prohibited and warm moxibustion with moxa sticks is allowed for 10 to 15 minutes.
[Efficacy]
Purging heart-fire and clearing blood-heat.
- Classical: Rebing, upset, chest hypochondriac pain, cough, vomiting, aphtha, rotten tongue, bad breath, madness, anger, red urine, bleeding, choking on food, palms Heat, jaundice, yellow eyes.
- Modern: hysteria, fatigue and weakness, tongue failure.
[Recipe]
- Heart pain: Zhangmen (LR13), Laogong (PC8).
- jaundice: Houxi (SI3), Laogong (PC8).
- hematochezia More than: Huiyin (CV1), Laogong (PC8), Taibai (SP3).
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