| alias | Shiqizhuixia, Yaokong, Shangxian |
bubble_chart Category extra point.
bubble_chart Etymology
Chinese medicine calls the first thoracic vertebra Yizhui and the fifth lumbar vertebra Shiqizhui (EX-B8). The acupoint is under its spinous process, so it is named Shiqizhui (EX-B8).
bubble_chart Location
In the waist, on the posterior midline, under the spinous process of the fifth lumbar vertebra.
bubble_chart Anatomy
In the lumbar tendon membrane, supraspinal ligament and interspinous ligament; there are posterior branches of lumbar artery; medial branches of posterior branches of lumbar nerve and interspinous subcutaneous nerve plexus.
bubble_chart Manipulation
Perpendicular insertion 1.5~2 cun.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Lumbosacral pain, leg pain, dysmenorrheal, menorrhagia and metrostaxis, enuresis.
bubble_chart Combinations
- postpartum abdominal pain: Shiqizhui (EX-B8), Zhongji (CV3), Guanyuan (CV4), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Zhongliao (BL33), Tianshu (ST25), Guilai (ST29).
- dysmenorrheal: Shiqizhui (EX-B8), Guanyuan (CV4), Zhongji (CV3), Qichong (ST30 ), Taichong (LR3), Diji (SP8), Xuehai (SP10), Ciliao (BL32).
