T.22.12

Tu Shui

Star

土水 (Tǔ Shuǐ) — Earth Water

Master Tung's Extraordinary Points · Zone 2 — Palm and Hand (二二部位) · point 22.12

Traditionally used for

Headaches
Teeth & mouth
Digestion

Location

Three points on the palm, on the radial side of the first metacarpal bone, in the thenar eminence, evenly spaced along the bone.

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

Body map, front: T.22.12 · Hand — Fig. — T.22.12 · Hand After Albinus, 1747

Bones of the hand, dorsal — Gray's Anatomy plate — Bones of the hand, dorsal Gray's Anatomy, 1918

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Needling

Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun

Angle: Perpendicular

Functions

Strengthens the Spleen and harmonises the Stomach
Tonifies the Kidney

Indications

Chronic gastritis and stomach painindigestion and bloatingtoothacheheadache at the vertexkidney weakness

In Master Tung's System

Zone: Zone 2 — Palm and Hand (二二部位)

Correspondence: Images the Spleen (Earth) and the Kidney (Water).

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