EX-UE8

Wailaogong

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外勞宮 (Wàiláogōng) — Outer Palace of Toil

Extra point · Extra (Upper Extremity) · point EX-UE8

Also known as Luozhen

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Digestion
Pain & joints

Location

On the dorsum of the hand, between the second and third metacarpal bones, 0.5 cun proximal to the metacarpophalangeal joints — directly opposite PC8.

How to locate: Ask the patient to make a loose fist; slide a fingertip along the groove between the second and third metacarpals towards the knuckles until it stops in the depression about 0.5 cun proximal to the metacarpophalangeal joints, opposite PC8 on the palm.

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

Body map, front: EX-UE8 · Hand — Fig. — EX-UE8 · Hand 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: 0.5–0.8 cun

Angle: Perpendicular or oblique toward the palm

Functions

Relieves acute stiff neck
Activates the channel and relieves pain

Indications

Acute stiff neck and torticollis — the primary indicationpain and stiffness of the hand and fingerschildhood indigestionabdominal pain

Clinical Notes

Its alternate name, Luozhen, literally means 'crick in the neck'. Needle with strong stimulation while the patient rotates the neck; often relieves within a minute.

Sources

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

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