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UB-23

Shenshu

Kidney *Shu*

Autres nomsKidney's Hollow

Méridien
Vessie
Classification
Shu du dos

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Localisation

  1. 011.5 cun to the side of the lower border of the second lumbar vertebra's spinous process.
  2. 02Find the point at the most prominent visible point of the paraspinal muscles.
  3. 031.5 cun lateral to DU-4 Mingmen, level with the lower border of the second lumbar vertebra's spinous process.

Puncture

  1. 01Insert obliquely, or perpendicular-obliquely, toward the spine, 1 to 1.5 cun.
  2. 02Caution: deep perpendicular needling risks injuring the Kidney.
  3. 03Insert straight in, angled slightly toward the spine, 1.5 to 2 cun. Sensation: low-back distention, or an electric, numb feeling radiating toward the buttocks and legs.
  4. 04Caution: avoid excessive depth or angling away from the spine, to prevent puncturing the Kidneys.
  5. 05Needle perpendicularly to 1 to 1.2 cun.
  6. 06Moxibustion may be used.

Fonctions du point

Back-Shu point of the Kidneys

Actions

  • Tonifies the Kidneys
  • Fortifies Yang
  • Benefits Jing
  • Nourishes Kidney Yin
  • Regulates Kidney Qi
  • Strengthens the Kidney's Qi-receiving function
  • Firms Kidney Qi
  • Regulates the water passages
  • Regulates the Lower Jiao
  • Benefits urination
  • Resolves Dampness
  • Warms and benefits the uterus
  • Benefits the ears and eyes
  • Strengthens the lumbar region
  • Nourishes Blood
  • Benefits bones and marrow
  • Tonifies Yuan Qi
  • Expels urinary stones

Indications

  • Edema
  • Deficiency-taxation edema
  • Difficult urination
  • White turbidity
  • Enuresis
  • Frequent urination
  • Dripping urination
  • Wasting-thirsting disorder accompanied by frequent urination
  • Hematuria
  • Cold or Damp diarrhea
  • Borborygmus
  • Undigested food in the stools
  • Eating heartily yet remaining thin
  • Lateral costal pain
  • Stomach Cold with distention
  • Cold vomiting
  • Deafness from Kidney Deficiency
  • Tinnitus
  • Visual dizziness
  • Night blindness
  • Blurred vision
  • A heavy head with bodily Heat
  • Facial redness and heat
  • Redness across the head and body
  • Yellow-black complexion
  • Wind headache
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Heart pain from rebellious Qi
  • Hemiplegia
  • Nephroptosis
  • Alopecia
  • Anemia
  • Aftereffects of infantile paralysis
  • Seizures
  • Cold knees
  • Osteoporosis
  • Osteomalacia
  • Blurred vision
  • Persistent drowsiness
  • Deficiency-type atrophy syndrome
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting with chills and shortness of breath
  • Generalized weakness
  • Amenorrhea
  • Abdominal cramps
  • Prostatitis
  • Urinary tract infection
  • Urinary retention
  • Optic nerve atrophy
  • Emaciation
  • Disorientation
  • Lethargy
  • Seminal emission
  • Seminal emission accompanied by dreams
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Semen in the urine
  • Impotence
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Genital pain
  • Acute hypogastric pain
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Cold accumulation in women leading to taxation
  • Chronic uterine Cold
  • Emaciation in women from intercourse during menstruation
  • Leukorrhea
  • Red and white leukorrhea
  • Chronic dyspnea
  • Chronic cough
  • Asthma
  • Diminished Qi
  • The five taxations and the seven injuries
  • Taxation affecting the five Zang
  • Chronic Kidney Cold
  • Deficiency-taxation emaciation
  • Lumbar pain and soreness
  • Knee pain and soreness
  • An icy-cold feeling in the lumbar region
  • Cold legs
  • Weak legs
  • Alternating hot and cold sensations in the bones
  • Windstroke
  • Nephritis
  • Renal colic
  • Lower back and soft tissue injuries
  • Hematuria
  • Tidal fevers
  • Arthritic bone deformities
  • Poor memory
  • Fatigue
  • Acute urinary stones
  • Infantile paralysis
  • Bronchial asthma
  • Neurasthenia
  • Menopausal syndrome
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Diabetes
  • Painful urinary dysfunction
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Eye fatigue
  • Chronic pain in the knee, sacrum, or low back
  • Kidney stones
  • Poor concentration

Associations

  • For coldness in the lower extremities.

  • For coldness and pain in the bone marrow.

  • For Kidney and lumbar weakness accompanied by seminal emission.

  • For lumbar pain.

  • For lumbar pain due to Kidney Deficiency.

  • For lumbar pain in the elderly, and incontinence of urine and feces in the elderly (moxa).

  • For invasion by Cold, or Damp diarrhea containing undigested food in the stool.

  • For Cold or Damp diarrhea with undigested food in the stool.

  • For vomiting, or a distended, cold Stomach with eating heartily yet remaining thin.

  • For Deficiency-taxation edema (moxa).

  • For seminal emission and white turbidity.

  • For impotence.

  • For genital pain.

  • For irregular menstruation.

  • For unremitting uterine bleeding.

  • For deafness due to Kidney Deficiency.

    • ST-36
    • LI-4

    For Deficiency-type tinnitus.

  • For tinnitus.

  • For fullness of the chest and lateral costal region radiating into the abdomen.

  • For chest and diaphragm obstruction from Blood stasis, or congealed Blood in the chest and abdomen.

  • For nephritis.

  • For urinary tract infection.

    • LI-4
    • ST-36

    For diabetes.

  • For Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao.

Notes

  • The primary point for tonifying the Kidneys.
  • One of the key points to strengthen the Kidneys, fortify Yang, nourish Yin and benefit Jing.
  • It tonifies the mind, stimulates initiative, lifts depression, and strengthens willpower.

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