Base de conocimientoPuntos de acupuntura
REN-5
Shimen
Stone Gate
También conocido comoStone Door · *Jueyun* · Infertility
- Canal
- Ren Mai
- Clasificación
- Mu frontal
Esta entrada aún no está traducida: el texto siguiente está en inglés.
Localización
- 012 cun below the navel.
- 02On the lower abdomen's midline, 2 cun below the navel and 3 cun above the pubic symphysis.
Punción
- 01Perpendicular insertion, 1 to 1.5 cun.
- 02Insert perpendicularly, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- 03Moxibustion may be used.
- 04Perpendicular insertion, 0.8 to 1.5 cun.
Funciones del punto
Front-Mu point of the San Jiao channel
Acciones
- Tonifies the Kidneys (especially Yang)
- Tonifies Yuan Qi
- Regulates menstruation
- Regulates the Lower Jiao
- Warms Yang
- Warms Cold
- Dries Dampness
- Dries Cold-Damp
- Promotes the gathering and excretion of Fluids in the Lower Jiao
- Opens the water passageways
- Moves and benefits the water passageways
- Regulates Qi
- Relieves pain
- Regulates the uterus
Indicaciones
- Hernial (Shan) disorders
- Leukorrhea
- Amenorrhea
- Postpartum hemorrhage
- Edema
- Abdominal Cold
- Abdominal pain
- Abdominal distention
- Abnormal uterine bleeding (metrorrhagia)
- Mastitis
- Enuresis
- Colic
- Hematuria
- Dyspepsia
- Qi painful urinary dysfunction (Lin)
- Blood painful urinary dysfunction (Lin)
- Twisting pain of the lower abdomen
- Shan disorder with severe periumbilical pain
- Lower abdominal distention
- Genital itching
- Persistent flow of lochia
- Abdominal masses
- Stone-like hardness in the lower abdomen
- Hypertension
- Dysmenorrhea
- Urinary incontinence
- Urinary retention
- Chronic diarrhea
- Scrotal contraction
- Retracted testicles
- Penile swelling with resulting pain in the lower abdomen and lumbar region
- Anorexia
- Difficult urination from Cold injury
- Diarrhea
- Amenorrhea
- Anuria
- Dysuria
- Periumbilical pain
- Dark urine
- Menorrhagia
- Undigested food in the stool
- Dysenteric disorder
- Hematemesis with inability to eat
- Running Piglet Qi attacking the Heart
- Deficiency taxation
- Deficient, Cold Lower Origin (Yuan)
- Lack of vitality
- Vaginal disorders
Precauciones
- Classical texts forbid needling this point in women.
- Other sources state that needling or moxibustion here is forbidden during pregnancy.
Combinaciones
For inability to urinate
For hardness and pain in the lower abdomen radiating to the genitals, with inability to urinate
For hypogastric pain radiating to the genitals
For spasmodic pain in the hypogastrium
For hypogastric Shan disorder
- ST-25
- REN-8
For umbilical Shan disorder
- SP-6
For women who have borne too many children
For profuse uterine bleeding
For unremitting uterine bleeding
Notas
- It is said to reduce a woman's ability to conceive.
- Some sources describe using it to control fertility in women.
- Some claim that needling it can leave a woman permanently infertile.
- It is mainly indicated for Excess patterns.
- It is a major center of energy.