Base de conocimientoPuntos de acupuntura
UB-2
Zanzhu
Gathered Bamboo
También conocido comoCollect Bamboo · Collecting Bamboo · *Cuanzhu* · Collection of Bamboo
- Canal
- Vejiga
- Clasificación
- Entrada
Esta entrada aún no está traducida: el texto siguiente está en inglés.
Localización
- 01At the medial end of the eyebrow, or in the supraorbital notch.
- 02Above the inner canthus, in a hollow of the eyebrow near its medial end.
- 03Note: run a finger laterally along the eyebrow from its inner end to find the hollow sitting directly above UB-1 Jingming; palpation often reveals tenderness here.
- 04Above UB-1 Jingming, at the eyebrow's medial end.
Punción
- 01Needle subcutaneously to 0.3–0.5 cun, or prick with a three-edged needle to draw blood.
- 02For eye disorders, insert transversely-obliquely downward toward UB-1 Jingming, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: distention and pain at the site and around the eye.
- 03Insert transversely, laterally, connecting toward M-HN-6 Yuyao, for pain above the orbit.
- 04Prick to draw blood for Heat conditions.
- 05Insert straight in, 0.3 to 0.5 cun. Sensation: distention at the site.
- 06For headache or facial paralysis, needle transversely toward M-HN-6 Yuyao, 1 to 1.5 cun. Sensation: distention and pain locally and around the eye.
- 07For supraorbital neuralgia, insert transversely toward the inner canthus, 0.5 cun. Sensation: may produce an electric, numb feeling radiating toward the neck.
Funciones del punto
Secondary entry point
Acciones
- Expels Wind
- Clears Heat
- Clears the head
- Brightens the eyes
- Soothes the Liver
- Frees obstruction in the channel
- Relieves pain
- A point for hay fever
- Clears the nose
- Strengthens the back
Indicaciones
- Hay fever
- Sinus problems
- Eye disorders
- Visual disorders
- Vertigo
- Watery eyes when exposed to Wind
- Eye pain and stiffness
- Cheek pain
- Delirium
- Attack of ghosts
- Eyelid twitching
- Glaucoma
- Keratoleukoma
- Head Wind
- Dizziness
- Epistaxis
- Rhinitis
- Sneezing
- Uncontrollable sneezing
- Facial pain
- Facial redness with cheek pain
- Hemorrhoid pain
- Manic behavior
- Loss of consciousness
- Unilateral headache
- Headaches of both Cold and Heat type
- Insanity
- Hysteria accompanied by loss of vision
- Optic nerve atrophy
- Hyperthyroidism with bulging eyes
- Back inflammation
- Back paralysis
- Superciliary ridge pain
- Acute conjunctivitis
- Eye dizziness
- Constant eyelid movement that prevents sleep
- A white film covering the corner of the conjunctiva
- Insanity
- Madness
- Torticollis
- Head congestion in children
- Facial paralysis
- Facial tics
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Floaters
- Red eyes
- Blurred vision
- Ongoing headache around or behind the eyes
- Headache
- Declining vision
- Supraorbital pain
- Dizziness with blurred vision
- Frontal headache
- Dim vision
- Visual dizziness
- Night blindness
- Eye redness, swelling and pain
- Itchy eyes
- Childhood epilepsy with the eyes rolled upward
- A bursting sensation in the eye
- Neck pain and stiffness
- Headache after alcohol intoxication
- Myopia
- Acute conjunctivitis
- Infantile convulsions
- Color blindness
- Acute low back injury with muscle spasm
- Impaired back movement
- Frontal sinusitis
- Pain between the brows
- Forehead pain
- Headache surrounding the eyebrows
- Eyeball pain
- Difficulty opening the eyes fully
- The patient appears as though possessed by a spirit
- Eyebrow inflammation
- Cadaveric syncope
- Cerebral hemorrhage
Precauciones
Several classical texts list moxibustion as contraindicated at this point.
Combinaciones
For Wind headache.
For headache with eye pain, pain between the eyebrows, eyelid twitching, and sore eyes.
For unilateral or generalized head Wind.
- M-HN-3
- ST-36
For head Wind arising after intoxication.
For rhinitis with a clear nasal discharge.
- Joined to M-HN-6
- GB-20
- LI-4
For frontal headache.
For acute conjunctivitis.
- ST-2
- REN-24
For facial muscle spasms.
- LI-14
- M-HN-7
For sore eyes.
Notas
- An important local point for treating the eyes.
- Bleeding this point can be used for eye inflammation.
- This point is also used for cerebral congestion.