Lingtai (GV10), refers to the heart. The point is close to the heart and is related to the heart, hence its name.

[Location]

Lingtai (GV10) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Suwen‧Qifu Lun Wang Bing's note: "Below the sixth vertebrae." You can also select acupoints at the bulges of the spinous processes,
• Leijing Tuyi: "When taking the points on the governor vessel (GV) between the spines, they should be taken at the joint process."

[Anatomy]

• Muscles: lumbar tendon membrane, supraspinal ligament, interspinous ligament.
• Nerve: medial branch of the posterior branch of the sixth thoracic nerve, and the spinal cord is within the spinal canal.
• Vessel: posterior branch of the sixth intercostal artery, interspinous subcutaneous venous plexus.

[Manipulation]

Oblique insertion is 0.5 to 1 cun, do not insert deeply, or insert the needle at the height of the spinous process and subcutaneously insert 1 to 2 cun downward. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 5 times, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 15 to 20 minutes.

[Efficacy]

clearing heart, releasing heat and benefiting qi.

• Classical: panting, wind-cold cough, boil and sore, bone steam, pulmonary tuberculosis, malaria.
• Modern: malaria, biliary ascariasis, epigastralgia.

[Recipe]

• asthma: Tiantu (CV22), Lingtai (GV10), Shaochong (HT9).
• tertian malaria: Lingtai (GV10), Taodao (GV13), Neiguan (PC6).
• Biliary ascariasis: Lingtai (GV10), Yanglingquan (GB34).
• boil and sore (red-streaked furuncle (acute lymphangitis)): Lingtai (GV10), Shenzhu (GV12), Ximen (PC4), Hegu (LI4), Weizhong (BL40).