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GB28

Weidao

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維道 (Wéidào) — Linking Path

Gallbladder channel · point 28

Not yet clinically reviewed

Meeting point of the Gallbladder channel with the Dai Mai

Traditionally used for

  • Digestion
  • Urinary & fluids
  • Menstrual & women's health

Location

On the lower abdomen, 0.5 cun medial and inferior to the anterior superior iliac spine (0.5 cun medioinferior to GB27).

How to locate: Find GB27 in the depression just medial to the anterior superior iliac spine, level with CV4; the point is 0.5 cun medial and inferior to it.

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

Body map, front: GB28 · Lower abdomen
Fig. — GB28 · Lower abdomen After Albinus, 1747
Body map, front: GB28 · Lower abdomen

GB28 · Lower abdomen · Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum, 1747

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

The abdominal regions · Gray's Anatomy, 1918

3D view

3D view not available for this point: its position on the 3D model couldn't be checked against its location text, so it is not shown. The 2D maps above show it.

Needling

Cited needling

  1. Perpendicular insertion
    Depth 1–1.5 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)
  1. Deadman P, Al-Khafaji M, Baker K. A Manual of Acupuncture. Hove: Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications; 1998 — p. 445 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.8–1.2 cun
Angle: Oblique, directed medially and downward

Functions

  • Regulates the Dai Mai and raises prolapse
  • Regulates the lower burner
  • Resolves dampness

Indications

Uterine prolapsevaginal discharge and irregular menstruationlower abdominal painpoor appetiteoedema

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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