He (water) point.

[Origin]

Chi, the compound character of "corpse" (person) and "Yi" (the image of an elbow), refers to the forearm. Ze, shallow water and low depressions. It is named because of its location. Huangdi Neijing noseYang Shang-shan Note: "Ze means the water bell in Pize. Chi means that there is a chi from the mouth. The pulse in the chi is injected here and moves down. It has the same meaning as water, hence the name Chize (LU5)."

[Location]

Shaohai, Chize, Quchiacupoint cross section
(quoted from "Yan Zhenguo acupoint anatomy")

Chize (LU5) acupoint
( Quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

In the cubital crease, in the depression on the radial side of the biceps tendon.

• Lingshu‧Benshu: "The artery in the middle of the elbow";
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "In the middle of the elbow, about the "grain" Superior artery. "
• Suwen‧Cijin Lun Wang Bing Note: "In the flexion";
• Waitai Miyao: "In the brachial flexion crease. The two tendons and bones are sunk in Wanwanzhong";
• Yixue Rumen: "The big tendons are outside the elbow crease";
• Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "Qu Only when your hand is like a bow can you shoot the needle."

[Anatomy]

• Muscles: The medial part is the biceps brachii, and the straight inferior part is the origin of the brachioradialis muscle.
• Nerve: There is the lateral cutaneous nerve of the forearm in the superficial layer, and the trunk of the radial nerve directly below.
• Vessels: cephalic vein, radial recurrent artery, and venous branches.

[Manipulation]

Perpendicular insertion 0.5~1 inch. Use direct moxibustion with caution, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.

[Efficacy]

clear and disperse lung qi, purge fire and reduce adverse effects.

• Classical: cough, wheezing, qi counterflow, hemoptysis, nausea, chest and hypochondrium pain, pulmonary tuberculosis, heart pain, upset, ischuria, epigastralgia, abdominal distension and fullness, colic, constipation, epistaxis , pharyngitis, dry tongue, cold vibration, acne, consumptive thirst, epilepsy, malaria, lumbago, shoulder and spine pain, migratory impediment, inability to raise the arm to the shoulder, elbow and arm contracture pain.
• Modern: common cold, sore throat, tonsillitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, whooping cough, pneumonia, membrane inflammation, intercostal neuralgia, erysipelas, malposition of fetus, measles, hypertension.

[Recipe]

• vomiting: Chize (LU5), Daling (PC7).
• Epilepsy: Chize (LU5), Rangu (KI2).
• migratory impediment does not raise the arm: Jianzhen (SI9), Chize (LU5).
• whooping cough: Chize (LU5), Hegu (LI4).
• epistaxis: Chize (LU5), Taichong (LR3).