Location
At the centre of the umbilicus.
Needling
Depth:
Not needled
Angle:
Not needled
Moxibustion: Salt-partitioned moxibustion at CV8 — filling the umbilicus with salt and burning moxa cones on top — is the classical emergency treatment for yang collapse, and a standard treatment for chronic cold diarrhoea.
⚠ Cautions: Needling is contraindicated. Treat by moxibustion only.
Functions
- Rescues collapsed yang and restores consciousness
- Warms the Spleen and Kidney and stops diarrhoea
- Tonifies original qi
Indications
Collapse with cold limbs and a faint pulsechronic and acute diarrhoeaabdominal pain and borborygmusprolapse of the rectumoedemainfertility
Clinical Notes
One of the few points in the repertoire treated exclusively by moxibustion. Contraindicated for needling in every classical source.
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