T.DT.03

Wu Ling

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五嶺 (Wǔ Lǐng) — Five Ridges

Master Tung's Extraordinary Points · Zone 11 — Back (後背部位) · point DT.03

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Cough & breathing
Colds & fever
Heart & circulation
Blood pressure
Energy & fatigue
Skin
Liver & jaundice

Cautions & contraindications

Pregnancy
Bleeding disorders

Location

A field of points on the upper and mid back, arranged in five rows: the first along the spine from T1 to T12, the second and third 1.5 cun lateral on each side, the fourth and fifth 3 cun lateral on each side. Twenty-five locations in all.

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

Body map, back: T.DT.03 · Upper back — Fig. — T.DT.03 · Upper back After Albinus, 1747

The vertebral column — Gray's Anatomy plate — The vertebral column Gray's Anatomy, 1918

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Needling

Pregnancy
Bleeding disorders

Depth: Prick to bleed

Angle: Prick the small visible vessels with a three-edged needle, then cup

Bleeding technique: The classical method is to identify small dark or raised vessels within the field, prick them, and apply cups to draw dark blood. Not all twenty-five locations are treated — the practitioner selects those that show a visible sign.

⚠ Cautions: Not for use in patients with bleeding disorders, on anticoagulants, who are pregnant, severely anaemic or very frail. Observe strict clean-technique and single-use sharps handling.

Functions

Clears heat and resolves toxicity throughout the body
Invigorates blood and dispels stasis
Descends rebellious qi

Indications

Hypertensionacute and chronic skin disease — eczema, psoriasis, acneasthma and chronic coughhepatitisfood poisoning and drug toxicitychronic fatiguehigh fevercardiac disease

In Master Tung's System

Zone: Zone 11 — Back (後背部位)

Clinical Notes

The largest and most-used bleeding field in the Tung system. Rather than a discrete point, it is a region searched for visible vascular signs. Tung regarded it as the strongest method available for chronic constitutional heat and toxicity.

Combinations Using This Point

Wu Ling — The Five Ridges Bleeding Field

A field of twenty-five locations across the upper and mid back, searched for visible vascular signs and bled with cupping.

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