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Base de connaissancesPoints d’acupuncture

SI-3

Houxi

Back Stream

Autres nomsBack Creek · Back Ravine · Creek at the Rear

Méridien
Intestin grêle
Classification
Shu-Ruisseau, Cinq Phases, Point de confluence, Point couplé, Tonification, Point de croisement

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Localisation

  1. 01On the hand's ulnar edge, in the pronounced hollow proximal to the fifth metacarpal head; locate it with the hand clenched into a fist.
  2. 02With the hand made into a fist, the point lies behind and to the side of the fifth metacarpal head, at the highest point of the crease the clenched fist forms.
  3. 03With a loosely closed fist, find it at the ulnar end of the distal palmar crease, proximal to the fifth metacarpophalangeal joint, where the crease ends at the red-white skin junction.

Puncture

  1. 01Needle perpendicularly, 0.5 to 2 cun deep, aiming toward LI-3 Sanjian; the hand should be loosely fisted with the metacarpal bones aligned in one plane.
  2. 02Puncture 0.5 to 0.7 cun deep.
  3. 03Moxibustion may be used.

Fonctions du point

  • Shu-Stream point of the Small Intestine channel
  • Wood point of the Small Intestine channel
  • Confluent (Master) point of the Governing vessel (DU channel)
  • Coupled Point of the Yangqiao channel
  • Tonification point
  • Vitality point
  • Reunion point of the SI, LI, ST, SJ, GB, LU, REN and DU channels

Actions

  • Benefits occiput, neck and back
  • Frees the channel
  • Relieves pain
  • Clears Wind-Heat
  • Treats malaria
  • Resolves jaundice
  • Clears Fire, Heat and Summerheat
  • Calms Shen
  • Treats epilepsy
  • Benefits the sensory orifices
  • Regulates the Governing Vessel (DU channel)
  • Removes Interior Wind from the Governing Vessel
  • Benefits the sinews
  • Benefits the joints
  • Resolves Dampness
  • Clears the mind
  • Eases the Sinew channels
  • Drains pathogenic factors from the Heart
  • Regulates sweating

Indications

  • Neck or upper-back stiffness and pain
  • Trouble turning the neck
  • Unilateral headache
  • Headache on both sides
  • Back pain
  • Shoulder pain
  • Pain in the elbow and arm
  • Elbow contracture
  • Finger contracture and pain
  • Pain across all the fingers
  • Lumbar and knee pain
  • Hemiplegia
  • Malaria
  • Night sweats
  • Shivering with cold
  • Fever with chills
  • Febrile illness without sweating
  • Aching along the spine and back
  • Psychosis
  • Intercostal neuralgia
  • Red, painful eyes
  • Red eyes with a filmy veil over vision
  • Eye congestion
  • Calm-type madness
  • Dermatosis
  • Markedly poor digestion
  • Forearm pain
  • Severe depression
  • Sore throat
  • Scabies
  • Dizziness
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Muscle tetany
  • Whiplash
  • Neck spasm
  • Hypertension
  • Neuralgia between the ribs
  • Chest fullness
  • Common cold
  • Plague
  • Cold abscess
  • Febrile disease with no sweating
  • Vertigo
  • Fullness in the chest region
  • Jaundice
  • Dark urine with hesitancy
  • Epilepsy
  • Manic depression
  • Disorders of the Governing Vessel
  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Superficial visual obstruction
  • Eye redness and pain
  • Eye swelling with tearing
  • Nosebleed
  • Toothache
  • Throat and cheek swelling
  • Both cheeks red, swollen and painful
  • Voice loss after a Windstroke
  • Seizures
  • Hysteria
  • Deaf-mutism
  • Conjunctival problems
  • Tidal fever
  • Intense fearfulness
  • Greasy stool
  • Delayed recovery following shock or surgery
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Paralysis
  • Dry mouth
  • Bi syndrome with generalized aching
  • Occipital headache
  • Neck and head pain
  • Neck rigidity
  • Keratitis
  • Manic psychosis
  • Depressive psychosis
  • A film over the eye
  • Neuralgia of the lower limb
  • Tremor of the hand
  • Itchy skin conditions

Associations

  • For severe night sweating

  • Clears both Exterior and Interior Heat from the Small Intestine channel as it reaches the head, particularly the ears and eyes, benefiting the sensory orifices

    • SJ-16

    For neck stiffness with an inability to turn the head

  • For headache

  • For head and eye pain

  • For forearm pain

  • For elbow contracture

  • For shoulder and back pain

  • For malaria with predominant Heat and slight Cold

  • For the five types of epilepsy

  • For epilepsy

  • For epileptic convulsions, aimless wandering, insomnia and Heart agitation

  • For mania with an urge to climb to high places and sing, tearing off clothes and running about

  • For sudden-onset mania

  • For deafness

  • For nosebleed with labored breathing

  • For jaundice

  • Frees the Governing Vessel and can influence the entire spine in both acute and chronic conditions (not for one-sided pain); tonifies the Kidneys (mainly in men) and promotes release of ACTH and sex hormones

  • For chronic lower-back pain in women

  • For tertian malaria

  • For lower-back spasm

  • For leg pain

  • For tidal fever with chills predominating over heat

    • LI-4

    Paired with SI-3 for finger spasm

Notes

  • This point has a notable effect on the spine overall, and is commonly used for pain in the upper spine, scapula and lumbar region.
  • It can be needled deeply toward LI-3 when all four fingers are involved.
  • It is a valuable point for expelling febrile disease.
  • It works best in acute cases rather than chronic ones.
  • Use reinforcing technique to induce sweating during fever.
  • Use reducing technique to stop night sweats.
  • It serves as a first-aid point for convulsions, particularly intestinal spasm with loss of consciousness.
  • For regulating sweating: reduce to stop sweating, reinforce to induce it.