Base de conocimientoPuntos de acupuntura
UB-21
Weishu
Stomach *Shu*
También conocido comoStomach's Hollow
- Canal
- Vejiga
- Clasificación
- Shu dorsal
Esta entrada aún no está traducida: el texto siguiente está en inglés.
Localización
1.5 cun to the side of the Du channel, level with the lower border of the twelfth thoracic vertebra's spinous process.
Punción
- 01Needle obliquely to 0.5–0.8 cun.
- 02Moxibustion may be used.
- 03Angle the needle obliquely toward the spine, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- 04Insert transversely-obliquely, 1 to 1.5 cun.
- 05Caution: needling perpendicularly, or obliquely away from the spine, carries a significant pneumothorax risk.
- 06Insert straight, tilted slightly toward the spine, 1 to 1.5 cun. Sensation: soreness, numbness and distention at the site, spreading toward the low back.
- 07Caution: avoid excessive depth to prevent puncturing the Kidneys or Liver.
Funciones del punto
Back Shu Point of the Stomach
Acciones
- Regulates Stomach Qi
- Regulates Stomach Yin
- Reinforces Central Qi
- Regulates, strengthens and tonifies Spleen Qi and Yang
- Tonifies nutritive Qi
- Reduces digestive Stagnation
- Relieves food retention
- Clears Stomach Fire
- Harmonizes the Middle Jiao
- Transforms Dampness
- Transforms Spleen and Stomach Damp-Heat
- Dries Dampness
- Dries Cold-Damp
- Eliminates Stagnation
- Descends rebellious Qi
Indicaciones
- Epigastric pain
- Epigastric pain from Stomach Qi Deficiency and Cold
- Abdominal distention
- Nausea
- Regurgitation
- Vomiting
- Spleen-Stomach weakness and Deficiency
- Dysenteric disorders
- Hepatitis
- Gastritis
- Stomach ache
- Drum-like edema
- Flatulence
- Belching
- Hiccup
- Ulcer
- Insomnia
- Infants vomiting milk
- Abdominal and epigastric distention and fullness
- Remaining thin despite eating heartily
- Morning vomiting of the previous night's food
- Contracted sinews
- Undigested food in the stool
- Jaundice
- Chronic abdominal masses
- Rectal prolapse
- Borborygmus
- Chest, hypochondriac and epigastric pain
- Anorexia
- Diarrhea
- Middle Jiao Xiao Ke
- Damp-Heat atrophy syndrome
- Pancreatitis
- Enteritis
- A stifling feeling in the chest and hypochondrium
- Abdominal pain
- Indigestion
- Mid-back pain
- Difficulty swallowing
- Prolapsed Stomach
- Pancreatitis
- Spinal pain
- Abdominal pain from Stomach Cold
- Lateral costal fullness
- Hungry but unable to eat
- Vomiting clear fluid
- Stomach reflux
- Sudden turmoil disorder
- Childhood nutritional impairment
- Back contraction and pain
- Malaria
- Dim vision
Combinaciones
To tonify Qi and Blood; may be paired with UB-21 for chronic gastritis, abdominal pain with no pleasure in eating, or eating heartily while remaining thin.
For chronic gastritis.
For a cold, distended Stomach, possibly with vomiting.
- UB-47
For Stomach Cold with undigested food in the stool.
Notas
A powerful point for treating the full range of Stomach disorders.