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POINT: DU-2 (GOVERNING VESSEL-2)  

NAME: YAOSHU

English: Lumbar Shu
Also Known As: Lower Back's Hollow
Lumbar's Hollow
Loins Correspondence

LOCATION:

  • On the midline, in the sacro-coccygeal hiatus.
    The sacro-coccygeal hiatus is located in between the cornua of the sacrum and the coccyx, in the depression inferior to the fourth sacral spinous process if this is palpable. It may sometimes extend as high as the level of the third sacral foramina.
  • In the sacral hiatus, below the fourth sacral vertebra.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.

NEEDLING:

  • Oblique insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Slanted insertion 0.7 to 1.5 cun
  • When used for epilepsy, needle obliquely upwards, obtaining needling sensation as far upwards as possible.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Transporting point of the lower back
  • Associated point of the loins

ACTIONS:

  • Benefits the lumbar region and legs
  • Dispels Wind-Dampness
  • Dispels Wind and Cold
  • Extinguishes Interior Wind
  • Calms spasms and convulsions

INDICATIONS:

  • Pain in the sacrum
  • Pain of the lumbar region and hips with inability to flex and extend
  • Lumbago
  • Lumbar pain radiating to the foot
  • Cold Bi radiating to the leg
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Seizures
  • Enuresis
  • Amenorrhea
  • Sacral pain
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Fevers
  • Red and white leukorrhea
  • Dark urine
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Warm malaria with absence of sweating
  • Epilepsy
  • Injury by Cold with ceaseless Heat in the four limbs
  • Paralysis of the lower limb
  • Incontinence due to paraplegia
  • Paresis of the foot
  • Lower extremity atrophy syndrome
  • Chills and stiffness
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Extreme irritability at the beginning of menstruation

COMBINATIONS:

UB-40
Weizhong
KI-1
Yongquan
UB-27
Xiaochangxu
UB-28
Pangguangshu

UB-13
Feishu

GB-30
Huantiao

Stiffness and pain in the lumbar region

Stiffness of the lumbar region and back with inability to bend to the side

Win-Cold Bi that is difficult to cure

DU-16
Fengfu

DU-14
Dazhui

 

Numbness of the legs

Malaria

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • The primary use of this point is to treat sacral and lumbar pain especially when it radiates to the hips and down the legs.
  • This is one of eight points for draining Heat from the extremities and is indicated for injury by Cold with ceaseless Heat in the four limbs.
  • This point affects the parathyroids.