EX-UE1

Zhoujian

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肘尖 (Zhǒujiān) — Elbow Tip

Extra point · Extra (Upper Extremity) · point EX-UE1

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Cough & breathing
Skin

Location

At the tip of the olecranon, with the elbow flexed.

How to locate: Flex the elbow; the point is on the tip of the olecranon.

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

Body map, front: EX-UE1 · Elbow — Fig. — EX-UE1 · Elbow After Albinus, 1747

Bones of the forearm — Gray's Anatomy plate — Bones of the forearm Gray's Anatomy, 1918

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Needling

Depth: Moxibustion only

Angle: Not needled

Moxibustion: Treated by moxibustion rather than needling; the classical method for scrofula.

Functions

Resolves phlegm and dissipates nodules
Resolves toxicity
Opens the channel and luo vessels locally

Indications

Scrofula and neck nodulesboils and carbunclesappendicitis

Sources

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

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