Base de connaissancesPoints d’acupuncture
UB-62
Shenmai
Extending Vessel
Autres nomsNinth Channel
- Méridien
- Vessie
- Classification
- Point de confluence, Point couplé, Point fantôme
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Localisation
- 01On the lateral aspect of the foot, roughly 0.5 cun below the lower border of the lateral malleolus, in a hollow behind the peroneal tendons.
- 02Note: this point sits directly below the bony prominence of the lateral malleolus.
- 03In the hollow just beneath the lateral malleolus.
Puncture
- 01Insert obliquely, angled downward, 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
- 02Puncture straight down, 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
- 03Moxibustion may be used.
- 04Insert obliquely, pointing downward, 0.3 to 0.5 cun, producing local distention and soreness.
Fonctions du point
- Confluent (Master) point of the Yang Qiao Mai
- Coupled point of the DU channel
- Sun Si-miao Ghost point
Actions
- Calms Interior Wind
- Expels Exterior Wind
- Settles the Shen
- Treats epilepsy
- Benefits the head and eyes
- Opens and regulates the Yang Qiao Mai
- Frees the channel
- Eases pain
- Relaxes the muscle channels
Indications
- Chills and fever
- Intermittent fever
- Aversion to Wind with spontaneous sweating and a headache
- Red eyes
- Red, swollen, and painful eyes
- Eye pain originating at the inner canthus
- Eye pain from an attack of the Yang Qiao Mai
- Epistaxis
- Deafness
- Tinnitus
- Manic depression
- Palpitations
- Heart-related fright
- Insomnia
- Cold Bi of the lumbar region and hip
- Pain in the lumbar region and leg
- Difficulty bending and straightening the knee
- Straw-shoe Wind (redness, swelling, and pain of the leg and foot)
- Chest fullness
- Sequelae of Windstroke
- Psychosis
- A sensation of electricity or excess energy in the skin
- Meningitis
- Seizures
- Glaucoma
- Wind-predominant Bi
- Fatigue
- Disorientation
- Vertigo
- Fatigue in the lower limbs
- Abdominal pain in women
- Migraine
- Hypertension
- Backache
- Aching in the lower extremities
- Psychosis
- Mental confusion
- Mental disorder
- Weakness of the foot
- Tibial paralysis
- Quadriplegia
- Beriberi
- Pain from Excess of Qi and Blood in women
- Tuberculosis
- Wind-type dizziness
- Eye dizziness caused by Wind
- Head Wind
- Headache
- Lateral and midline headaches
- Frontal headache
- Thunder head Wind
- Opisthotonos
- Upward-staring eyes
- Lockjaw
- Epilepsy
- Daytime epilepsy
- Windstroke with aphasia and hemiplegia
- Deviation of the mouth, face, and eyes
- Rebellious Qi
- Nape stiffness
- Stiffness with difficulty extending the back
- Redness and swelling of the lateral malleolus
- Blood and Qi pain in women
- Swelling of the neck and axilla
- Hemiplegia and muscle spasms following cerebrovascular accident
- Occipital neuralgia
- Spinal disorders
- Meniere's disease
- Ankle arthritis
- Insanity
- Post-concussion syndrome
- Nasal congestion and discharge
- Spasming of the uterus
- Depression
- Cold feet
- Dyspnea
- Dizziness
- Lumbago
- Lower-limb neuralgia
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Loss of speech following stroke
- Hemiplegia
- Deviated mouth and eyes
- Bi syndrome of the leg
- Contracture of the leg, knee, and foot
- Dermatosis
- A sensation of rising Qi
- Kidney rheumatism
- Uterine cramping
- Pain control
Associations
For Head Wind with severe headache
For Head Wind with visual dizziness and neck stiffness
- ST-41
For madness
For night-time epilepsy, disorders below the ankle, and insomnia (reduce Shenmai, reinforce Zhaohai)
For coldness and pain in the bone marrow
For pain in the legs and lumbar region
For axillary swelling
For Meniere's disease
For seizures
Notes
- It expels both Cold and Heat, and treats head Wind whether one-sided or generalized.
- It has a direct effect on the endocrine glands.