EX-UE3

Zhongquan

Star

中泉 (Zhōngquán) — Central Spring

Extra point · Extra (Upper Extremity) · point EX-UE3

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Cough & breathing
Digestion

Location

On the dorsal wrist crease, in the depression between LI5 and TE4.

How to locate: With the forearm pronated, move the wrist gently to feel the joint line at the dorsal wrist crease, and extend the fingers to make the extensor digitorum tendons stand out; the point is in the depression just radial to those tendons, between LI5 and TE4.

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

Body map, front: EX-UE3 · Wrist — Fig. — EX-UE3 · Wrist After Albinus, 1747

Bones of the hand, dorsal — Gray's Anatomy plate — Bones of the hand, dorsal Gray's Anatomy, 1918

3D view

3D view not available for this point: its position can't be carried onto the 3D model reliably (it failed a placement check). The 2D maps above show it.

Needling

Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun

Angle: Perpendicular

Functions

Unbinds the chest and descends rebellious qi
Harmonises qi between the upper and middle burner
Benefits the wrist

Indications

Chest fullness and asthmaepigastric painwrist painblood in the vomit

Sources

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

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