Intersecting point: hand yangming and yang heel vessel.

bubble_chart Etymology

"Jugu" originally refers to clavicle; the point is located behind the acromial end of the clavicle, hence the name.

bubble_chart Location

Jugu (LI16) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "Located in the depression between the two bones at the upper end of the shoulder";
• Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "Approximately one cun above Jianyu (LI15)."

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Muscles: trapezius, deep layer is supraspinatus.
• Nerves: branches of the supraclavicular nerve, branches of the accessory nerve, and the deep suprascapular nerve.
• Vessels: suprascapular artery and vein.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Perpendicular insertion 0.5~1 cun, not too deep. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 ~ 5 rounds, moxibustion with moxa stick 5 ~ 10 minutes.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Subduing swelling and dissipating bind.

• Classical: Pain in the back and shoulder, blood stasis in the chest, inability to flex or extend the shoulder and arm with pain, epilepsy, hematemesis, scrofula, hyperthyroidism.
• Modern: supraspinatus tendonitis.

bubble_chart Combinations

• Inability to lift arm: Jugu (LI16), Qiangu (SI2).