CV20

Huagai

Star

華蓋 (Huágài) — Florid Canopy

Ren (Conception) channel · point 20

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Nose & throat
Cough & breathing

Location

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

How to locate: Find the sternal angle, the horizontal bony ridge on the upper sternum; the point is on the midline just above it, level with the first intercostal space, KI26 and ST14.

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

Body map, front: CV20 · Chest — Fig. — CV20 · 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

Unbinds the chest
Regulates qi, descends Lung qi and relieves cough

Indications

Cough, asthma and wheezingchest and hypochondriac painsore throat

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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