EX-LE3

Baichongwo

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百蟲窩 (Bǎichóngwō) — Hundred Insect Burrow

Extra point · Extra (Lower Extremity) · point EX-LE3

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Skin

Location

On the medial thigh, 1 cun above SP10, 3 cun above the medio-superior border of the patella.

How to locate: With the patient seated and the knee flexed, measure 3 cun (one handbreadth) above the medial upper border of the patella, 1 cun above SP10; the point is in a small depression on vastus medialis.

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

Body map, front: EX-LE3 · Thigh — Fig. — EX-LE3 · Thigh After Albinus, 1747

The femur — Gray's Anatomy plate — The femur Gray's Anatomy, 1918 Marker hidden while its position on this plate is re-checked.

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Needling

Depth: 1.0–1.5 cun

Angle: Perpendicular

Functions

Cools the blood and relieves itching
Expels wind from the skin
Drains dampness

Indications

Generalised itching and urticariaeczema and skin rashesintestinal parasites (classical)

Clinical Notes

Its name — the burrow of a hundred insects — describes the crawling, itching sensation it treats. Used with SP10 and LI11 for pruritus.

Sources

Focks C, ed. Atlas of Acupuncture. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2008. (Locating method and actions.)

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