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Base de connaissancesPoints d’acupuncture

DU-6

Jizhong

Center of the Spine

Autres nomsMiddle of Spine

Méridien
Du Mai

Cette entrée n’est pas encore traduite — le texte ci-dessous est en anglais.

Localisation

  1. 01Just below the spinous process of the eleventh thoracic vertebra.
  2. 02On the back's midline, in the hollow beneath the spinous process of the eleventh thoracic vertebra.

Puncture

  1. 01Insert perpendicular-to-oblique, angled superiorly, 0.5–1 cun.
  2. 02Caution: depending on body build, the spinal cord sits 1.25–1.75 cun beneath the skin.
  3. 03Oblique insertion, 0.5–1 cun.
  4. 04Needle perpendicularly, 0.5–1 cun.

Actions

  • Strengthens the Spleen
  • Supports the spine

Indications

  • Jaundice
  • Hepatitis
  • Diarrhea
  • Diarrhea with an inability to eat
  • Dysentery
  • Rectal prolapse in infants
  • Psychosis
  • Madness
  • Demonic possession
  • Anorexia
  • Poor appetite with abdominal fullness
  • Lower-limb paralysis
  • Warm febrile disease
  • Epilepsy
  • Wind epilepsy
  • Seizures
  • Hemorrhoids
  • The five types of hemorrhoids
  • Hemafecia
  • Low back pain
  • Lumbago
  • Vertebral column pain
  • Abdominal distention
  • Meteorism
  • Abdominal masses
  • Lumbar spine stiffness
  • Epigastric pain

Précautions

Several classical texts contraindicate moxibustion at this point.

Notes

This point is said to influence the entire endocrine system.