Base de connaissancesPoints d’acupuncture
ST-28
Shuidao
Water Passage
Autres nomsWaterway
- Méridien
- Estomac
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Localisation
- 01On the lower abdomen, 2 cun lateral to the midline and below the umbilicus, at the level of REN-4 Guanyuan. This 2 cun line lies midway between the midline and the palpable border of the rectus abdominis muscle.
- 023 cun below the navel and 2 cun lateral to REN-4 Guanyuan.
Puncture
- 01Insert perpendicularly, 1 to 1.5 cun. Caution: in thin patients or with a full Bladder, deep insertion may penetrate the peritoneal cavity or the Bladder itself — have the patient urinate before treatment.
- 02Insert straight, 1 to 1.5 cun. Expected sensation: distention and soreness, which may spread toward the lower side of the abdomen being needled.
- 03Needle perpendicularly to a depth of 0.7 to 1.2 cun.
- 04Moxibustion may be used.
Actions
- Regulates the Lower Jiao
- Dispels Stagnation
- Benefits the Bladder
- Benefits the uterus
- Cools Damp-Heat
- Clears Damp-Heat from the Lower Jiao
- Promotes urination
- Opens the water passages
- Helps Difficult Urination Syndrome
- Relieves pain
Indications
- Urinary retention
- Retention of stool
- Edema
- Cold in the Bladder
- Fullness and distention of the lower abdomen
- Lower abdominal distention and pain radiating to the vagina
- Shan disorder
- Lumbar vertebral pain
- Shoulder and back pain
- Urinary obstruction
- Difficulty urinating
- Inability to urinate
- Scant urine
- Infertility due to Yin in the uterus
- Nephritis
- Cystitis
- Constipation
- Dysmenorrhea
- Blood clots in the uterus
- Leukorrhea
- Sterility
- Hypogastric pain in women that spreads to the genitals
- Dysmenorrhea
- Infertility
- Uterine Cold radiating down the thigh to the knee
- Uterine masses
- Retained dead fetus
- Retained placenta
- Lumbar pain during menstruation
- Heat binding in the San Jiao
- Ascites
- Hernia
- Orchitis
- Scrotal inflammation
- Pain extending to the genitals
- Rectal prolapse
- Enteritis
- Contracture of the shoulder and the lower back (renal region)
- Painful urinary dysfunction
- Kidney stones lodged in the upper or lower urinary tract
Associations
Notes
- It is used when Excess pathogens block the Bladder's Qi transformation function, and when Cold congeals in the uterus.
- It is also specifically used for uterine masses.