CV18

Yutang

Star

玉堂 (Yùtáng) — Jade Hall

Ren (Conception) channel · point 18

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Cough & breathing
Digestion
Heart & circulation

Location

On the chest, on the anterior midline, level with the third intercostal space.

How to locate: Find the sternal angle, level with the second rib, and count down from the second intercostal space to the third; the point is on the midline at this level, level with KI24 and ST16.

Distances are in cun, a proportional unit — how to measure.

Body map, front: CV18 · Chest — Fig. — CV18 · Chest After Albinus, 1747

The thorax, from in front — Gray's Anatomy plate — The thorax, from in front Gray's Anatomy, 1918

3D view

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Needling

Cited needling

Transverse insertion — directed superiorly or inferiorly along the channel

Depth 0.5–1 cun

skindeeper

Depths describe average adult habitus in the cited population, never a single safe number for the patient in front of you. Palpate and adjust.

Sources (1)

Deadman P, Al-Khafaji M, Baker K. A Manual of Acupuncture. Hove: Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications; 1998 — p. 519 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun

Angle: Transverse

Functions

Unbinds the chest and descends rebellious qi

Indications

Cough and asthmachest pain and fullnessvomitingbreast pain

Similar Points

Yuyao how are these connected?

Sources

World Health Organization. WHO Standard Acupuncture Point Locations in the Western Pacific Region. Manila: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2008. (Location.)
Focks C, ed. Atlas of Acupuncture. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2008. (Locating method and actions.)

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