GB26

Daimai

Star

帶脈 (Dàimài) — Girdling Vessel

Gallbladder channel · point 26

Not yet clinically reviewed

Meeting point of the Gallbladder channel with the Dai Mai

Traditionally used for

Digestion
Menstrual & women's health
Pain & joints

Location

On the lateral abdomen, directly below the free end of the eleventh rib, level with the umbilicus.

How to locate: Follow the lower edge of the rib cage laterally to the free end of the eleventh rib (LV13), then drop straight down to the level of the umbilicus; the point is there, level with CV8.

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

Body map, front: GB26 · Upper abdomen — Fig. — GB26 · Upper abdomen After Albinus, 1747

The abdominal regions — Gray's Anatomy plate — The abdominal regions Gray's Anatomy, 1918

3D view

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Needling

Cited needling

Perpendicular insertion

Depth 0.5–1 cun

skindeeper

Depths describe average adult habitus in the cited population, never a single safe number for the patient in front of you. Palpate and adjust.

Sources (1)

Deadman P, Al-Khafaji M, Baker K. A Manual of Acupuncture. Hove: Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications; 1998 — p. 444 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.8–1.2 cun

Angle: Perpendicular

Functions

Regulates the Dai Mai and stops vaginal discharge
Regulates the Uterus and menstruation
Drains damp-heat
Relieves lumbar and hypochondriac pain

Indications

Vaginal dischargeirregular menstruation and amenorrhoealower abdominal painlumbar pain and weaknesshernia

Clinical Notes

The principal point of the Girdling Vessel and the classical choice for persistent vaginal discharge — the Dai Mai's characteristic 'leaking downward' pattern.

Sources

World Health Organization. WHO Standard Acupuncture Point Locations in the Western Pacific Region. Manila: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2008. (Location.)
Focks C, ed. Atlas of Acupuncture. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2008. (Locating method and actions.)

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