Knowledge baseAcupuncture points
KI-12
Dahe
Great Luminance
Also known asGreat Brightness · Great Clarity
- Channel
- Kidney
- Classification
- Crossing
Location
- 01On the lower abdomen, 0.5 cun lateral to REN-3 Zhongji.
- 02Found 4 cun below the umbilicus, 0.5 cun lateral to REN-3 Zhongji.
- 03On the lower abdomen, 4 cun below the umbilicus and 1 cun above the upper border of the pubic symphysis, 0.5 cun lateral to the midline (REN-3 Zhongji).
Needling
- 01Needle straight in, 1 to 1.5 cun.
- 02Perpendicular puncture, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- 03Caution: if inserted too deeply this can pierce a full bladder, so empty the bladder before treatment.
- 04Moxibustion may be used.
Point functions
Meeting pain with the Chong channel
Actions
- Tonifies the Kidneys
- Consolidates Jing
Indications
- Spermatorrhea
- Leukorrhea
- Spermatic cord neuralgia
- Penile pain
- Penile retraction
- Redness of the eye starting at the inner canthus
- Nocturnal emissions
- Impotence
- Abnormal leukorrhea
- Pain of the external genitalia
- Uterine prolapse
- Red leukorrhea
- Deficiency-taxation disorder
Notes
- This point is associated with warmth, desire, and passion.
- One principal source places points KI-11 through KI-17 at one cun lateral to the midline.