Cleft point.

bubble_chart Etymology

"Kong" (孔), pore; "zui" (最), extreme. The acupoint is cleft point of hand taiyin lung meridian (LU), where meridian qi deeply gathers, hence the name.

bubble_chart Location

Kongzui (LU6) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

Radial surface of forearm, along the line connecting Chize ( LU5) and Taiyuan (LU9), 7 cun above the wrist crease.

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "7 cun above the wrist";
• Zhenjiu Fengyuan: "Take it from the depression between the upper and lower bones, on the inner side".

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Muscles: brachioradialis, flexor carpi radialis, flexor digitorum superficialis, flexor pollicis longus, pronator teres on the radial side.
• Nerve: The superficial layer includes the lateral cutaneous nerve of the forearm, and the radial side is the superficial branch of the radial nerve.
• Vessels: cephalic vein, radial artery (accompanied by two small radial veins).

bubble_chart Manipulation

Perpendicular insertion 0.5~1 cun. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 ~ 5 rounds, moxibustion with moxa stick 10 ~ 15 minutes.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clear heat, release exterior, benifit pharynx.

• Classical: fever with no sweating, tidal fever, cough, asthma, hemoptysis, reversed Qi, dizziness and headache, sore throat, loss of voice, and difficulty in bending and extending the elbow and arm.
• Modern: bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, tonsillitis, hemorrhoidal bleeding.

bubble_chart Combinations

• Fever with no sweating: Shangliao (BL31), Kongzui (LU6).
• Spitting blood: Feishu (BL13), Quze (PC3), Kongzui (LU6).
• aphonia: Yamen (GV15), Kongzui (LU6).
• fever, chest pain, cough: Dazhui (GV14), Feishu (BL13), Kongzui (LU6).
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis with hemoptysis: Chize (LU5), Kongzui (LU6).