KI12

Dahe

Star

大赫 (Dàhè) — Great Manifestation

Kidney channel · point 12

Not yet clinically reviewed

Meeting point of the Kidney channel with the Chong Mai

Traditionally used for

Digestion
Menstrual & women's health
Fertility & vitality

Location

On the lower abdomen, 4 cun below the umbilicus, 0.5 cun lateral to the anterior midline.

How to locate: The umbilicus to the upper border of the pubic symphysis is 5 proportional cun; measure with proportional cun, not finger widths. From the upper border of the symphysis measure 1 cun up; the point is 0.5 cun lateral to the midline, level with CV3.

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

Body map, front: KI12 · Lower abdomen — Fig. — KI12 · Lower 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. 352 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.8–1.2 cun

Angle: Perpendicular

Functions

Strengthens the Kidney, consolidates the essence and benefits the genitals
Regulates the lower burner and the uterus

Indications

Seminal emission and impotencevaginal discharge and uterine prolapselower abdominal paininfertility

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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