DU-14
Dazhui
Great Vertebra
Auch bekannt alsBig Vertebra · Great Hammer · Large Spine
- Leitbahn
- Du Mai
- Klassifikation
- Kreuzungspunkt, Meer, Einflussreicher Punkt
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Lokalisation
- 01On the spinal midline at the base of the neck, roughly level with the shoulders, in the hollow just beneath the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra.
- 02Located between the spinous processes of the seventh cervical vertebra and the first thoracic vertebra.
Nadelung
- 01Insert obliquely upward-perpendicular, 0.5-1 cun. Expect local distention and soreness spreading down into both shoulders. Caution: depth to the spinal cord ranges from about 1.25 to 1.75 cm beneath the skin depending on build; withdraw the needle at once if an electric or numb sensation radiates into the limbs.
- 02Moxibustion may be applied in a quantity matched to the patient's age — for instance, 30 cones for a 30-year-old.
Punktfunktionen
- Meeting point of the Governing channel with the six Yang channels of the hands and feet
- Point of the "Sea of Qi"
- Influential point of Yang
Wirkungen
- Expels Wind and Wind-Heat (releases the Exterior)
- Consolidates the Exterior (tonifies Protective Wei Qi)
- Harmonizes Nutritive and Defensive Qi
- Clears Fire, Heat and summerheat
- Lowers fever
- Treats malarial disorders
- Tonifies Deficiency
- Calms Wind
- Opens Yang
- Regulates the Yang channels
- Clears the brain and mind
- Calms the Shen
- Promotes the flow of Qi
- Regulates Qi
- Tonifies Yang
- Restores collapsed Yin
- Relaxes the sinews
Indikationen
- Cold-induced disorder producing high fever, agitation and vomiting
- Wind-Heat type common cold
- Wind aversion accompanied by shivering, chills and fever
- Warm malaria
- Chills and fever that alternate
- Malarial disorders
- Intermittent fever
- Tidal fevers
- Painful throat obstruction (throat Bi)
- Chest and hypochondriac fullness with depression
- Deficiency sweating
- Night sweats
- Streaming bone disorder
- Bone Heat with recurring fever
- Lack of strength
- Physical weakness
- Asthenia
- Disinclination to speak
- Breathlessness with loss of speech
- Afternoon fever
- Febrile convulsions
- Cough
- Bronchitis
- Whooping cough (pertussis)
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Five types of tuberculosis
- Dyspnea
- Wind-induced tuberculosis
- Psychosis
- Headache
- Wind-Heat eczema and urticaria
- Shoulder-back pain
- Marked dryness of the upper teeth, particularly the incisors
- Mania
- Melancholia
- Emphysema
- Muscular tetany
- All febrile diseases
- Hemiplegia
- Asthma
- Fullness in the Lungs
- The five taxations
- The seven injuries (types of contusion)
- Wind taxation — chronic Bi that exhausts Qi and Blood
- Pain throughout the hundred joints
- Epilepsy
- Seizures
- Infantile convulsions
- Chronic and acute childhood fright Wind
- Hypertension
- Insomnia
- Hematemesis
- Unremitting epistaxis
- Stiffness of the spine
- Nape stiffness preventing head rotation
- Neck pain
- Neck rigidity
- Torticollis
- Neck muscle spasm
- Jaundice
- Hepatitis
- Vomiting
- Sensation of energy surging upward in the body
- Heat stroke
- Hysteria
- Blood diseases
- Hemiplegia
- Throat congestion
- Bone tuberculosis presenting Yang signs with dry upper incisors
- Lung-Heat induced Atrophy (Wei) syndrome
- Closed-type coma
- Heat Bi accompanied by fever
Kombinationen
Malaria presenting more Heat than Cold
Malaria presenting more Cold than Heat
Malaria
Cold-induced disorder with persistent high Heat that will not resolve (apply reducing technique)
Spleen Cold malaria
- KI-7
- UB-43 (moxa)
Spontaneous sweating
Epistaxis (treat with moxibustion)
Combined Tai Yang and Shao Yang patterns
Influenza
- N-BW-8
- ST-40
Bronchitis
Leukopenia
- DU-13
- M-BW-5
- DU-12
Psychosis
Anmerkungen
- This point ranks among the primary choices for bringing down fever.
- It is distinctively capable of clearing pathogenic factors from the Tai Yang, Shao Yang and Yang Ming stages.
- It is one of the principal points for treating abnormal sweating.
- When neck pain radiates to the side, the needle is often angled toward the affected shoulder.
- This point sets everything into motion.
- Depending on technique, this point's effect can run in opposite directions: reducing method releases the Exterior to treat Wind-Heat, harmonizes Ying and Wei, and clears Interior Heat, whereas reinforcing method or moxibustion tonifies Yang — especially Heart Yang — while clearing the mind and stimulating the brain.