GV3

Yaoyangguan

Star

腰陽關 (Yāoyángguān) — Lumbar Yang Pass

Du (Governing) channel · point 3

Location

On the lower back, on the posterior midline, in the depression below the spinous process of L4.

How to locate: Level with the highest points of the iliac crests.

Needling

Depth: 0.5–1.0 cun
Angle: Perpendicular or slightly oblique superiorly
Moxibustion: A principal point for warming moxibustion in cold-damp low back pain.

Functions

  • Warms and strengthens the lower back and knees
  • Tonifies Kidney yang
  • Benefits the lower limbs

Indications

Low back pain and stiffnessweakness and numbness of the legsimpotence and seminal emissionirregular menstruationdiarrhoea

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