LU-8
Jingqu
Channel Gutter
Auch bekannt alsMeridian Gutter · Regulating Drain · Flowing Gutter · Passing Ditch · Channel Canal · Across the Ditch
- Leitbahn
- Lunge
- Klassifikation
- Jing-Fluss, Fünf Wandlungsphasen, Stundenpunkt
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Lokalisation
- 011 cun proximal to the wrist crease, in the hollow on the radial artery's lateral side.
- 02Proximal to the wrist, 1 cun above LU-9 Taiyuan, along the line linking LU-6 Kongzui and LU-9 Taiyuan, in the hollow at the radial styloid process's base, radial to the radial artery.
- 03Note: sliding the index finger proximally from LU-9 Taiyuan across the radial styloid process brings it naturally to rest in the hollow marking LU-8 Jingqu.
Nadelung
- 01Needle straight in, 0.1 to 0.3 cun.
- 02Caution: do not puncture the radial artery.
- 03Insert obliquely toward the proximal direction, or straight in, 0.3–0.5 cun, keeping clear of the radial artery.
- 04Angled insertion, 0.5 to 0.7 cun.
Punktfunktionen
- Jing-River point
- Metal point
- Horary point
Wirkungen
- Directs Lung Qi downward
- Relieves cough and wheezing
Indikationen
- Palms that are hot and dry, or hot and moist
- Sudden cardiac pain
- Intermittent fever
- Copious Phlegm
- Any Lung or throat condition
- Intermittent fever and chills
- Back and chest stiffness
- A feeling of chest fullness
- Chest pain accompanied by vomiting
- Chest pain that radiates to the upper back
- Esophageal spasm or pain
- Malaria
- Frequent yawning
- Bronchitis
- Cough
- Asthma
- Fever
- Chest pain
- Sore throat
- Wrist pain
- Dyspnea
- Wind invasion
- Intermittent suffocation
- Wheezing
- Throat Bi
- Febrile illness with breathlessness
- Sole-of-foot pain
Vorsichtshinweise
Moxibustion must not be used at this point.
Anmerkungen
- It removes poisons from the body, functioning as a potent cleansing and eliminating point.
- It is seldom used in practice.
- Japanese and Korean acupuncture employ it in the four-needle technique to rein in an overactive Liver.