CV19

Zigong

Star

紫宮 (Zǐgōng) — Purple Palace

Ren (Conception) channel · point 19

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Cough & breathing
Heart & circulation

Location

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

How to locate: Find the sternal angle, level with the second rib; the intercostal space just below that rib is the second, and the point is on the midline at this level, level with KI25 and ST15.

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

Body map, front: CV19 · Chest — Fig. — CV19 · 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. 520 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun

Angle: Transverse

Functions

Descends rebellious qi and unbinds the chest

Indications

Cough and asthmachest pain and fullnessdifficulty swallowing

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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