Base de conocimientoPuntos de acupuntura
UB-15
Xinshu
Heart *Shu*
También conocido comoHeart's Hollow · Heart Correspondence
- Canal
- Vejiga
- Clasificación
- Shu dorsal
Esta entrada aún no está traducida: el texto siguiente está en inglés.
Localización
1.5 cun lateral to the lower edge of the fifth thoracic vertebra's spinous process, level with DU-11 Shendao; find it at the highest point of the paraspinal muscles.
Punción
- 01Insert straight in with a slight tilt toward the spine, 1–1.5 cun; expect local distention and soreness that may extend toward the ribs.
- 02Insert transversely, angled downward along the muscle, 1–2 cun; expect local distention and soreness.
- 03Caution: avoid inserting too deeply, to prevent puncturing the lung.
- 04Insert obliquely, 0.5–0.7 cun.
- 05Moxibustion may be used.
- 06Angle the needle toward the spine, 0.5–1 cun.
- 07Insert transversely-obliquely, 1–1.5 cun.
- 08Caution: inserting straight in, or obliquely away from the spine, risks pneumothorax.
Funciones del punto
Back-Shu (Associated) point of the Heart
Acciones
- Regulates and tonifies the Heart
- Nourishes the Heart
- Regulates the Upper Jiao
- Tonifies Ancestral Qi
- Clears Heart Fire
- Regulates Heart Qi
- Cools Heat in the Blood
- Clears Heat
- Transforms Heart Phlegm
- Opens and relaxes the chest
- Calms the Shen
- Calms the Heart
- Strengthens, invigorates and clears the Brain
- Transforms Wind-Phlegm
- Invigorates the Blood
- Regulates Qi and Blood
Indicaciones
- Menopausal syndrome
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Rheumatic heart disease
- Neurasthenia
- Mutism
- Night sweats
- Fever and chills
- Cough with or without blood
- Epistaxis
- Dream-disturbed sleep
- Insomnia
- Nocturnal emissions with erotic dreams
- Heart Fire
- Mental retardation in children
- Atrial fibrillation
- Psychosis
- Vomiting with no desire to eat
- Spermatorrhea
- Cardiac pain
- Palpitations
- Palpitations with fear
- Heart pain
- Chest oppression with restlessness
- A worried, oppressed feeling in the chest with inability to catch the breath
- Irregular pulse
- Heart Qi Deficiency in children
- Vomiting
- Hematemesis
- Difficulty swallowing
- Reddened lips with sweating
- Weakness at the root of the tongue
- Eye pain
- Windstroke
- White turbidity
- Chest pain with irritability and depression
- Chest pain radiating to the upper back
- Five sole Heat
- Seizures
- Mania
- Hysteria
- Hallucinations
- Depression
- Forgetfulness
- Disorientation
- Anxiety with palpitations
- Arrhythmias
- Heat from Heart Yin Deficiency
- Depression
- Tachycardia
- Hemoptysis
- Tidal fevers
- Absent-mindedness
- Panic
- Epilepsy
- Irritability
- Weeping with grief
- Fearful and timid from Heart Deficiency
- Excessive dreaming
- Disorientation
- Delayed speech development
- Manic depression
- Epilepsy
- Dementia
- Manic wandering
- Seminal emission
- Lacrimation
- Hemiplegia
- Jaundice
Combinaciones
Neurasthenia with Heart agitation
Rheumatic heart disease
Cardiac arrhythmias
- HT-7
- ST-40
Pulmonary heart disease
Buerger's disease
Weak Kidneys and lumbar region with spermatorrhea
Weeping with grief
- SJ-10
- DU-11
Sadness, anxiety and disorientation
- SJ-10
- REN-14
Heart-related disorientation
Dementia
Epilepsy
Coughing and spitting blood
Chest oppression
Notas
- This is a highly important point for many Heart disorders.
- Apply moxa to stimulate the brain.
- Caution: use no more than 3 cones per treatment.
- It serves equally well in Excess and Deficiency patterns.