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POINT: DU-6 (GOVERNING VESSEL-6)

NAME: JIZHONG

English: Center of the Spine
Also Known As: Middle of Spine

LOCATION:

  • Below the spinous process of the eleventh thoracic vertebra.
  • On the midline of the back, in the depression below the spinous process of the eleventh thoracic vertebra.

NEEDLING:

  • Perpendicular-oblique superior insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Caution: the spinal cord lies 1.25 to 1.75 cun deep to the skin surface, varying according to body build.
  • Slanted insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 to 1 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

ACTIONS:

  • Fortifies the Spleen
  • Benefits the spine

INDICATIONS:

  • Jaundice
  • Hepatitis
  • Diarrhea
  • Diarrhea with inability to eat
  • Dysentery
  • Infantile rectal prolapse
  • Psychosis
  • Madness
  • Possessed by demons
  • Anorexia
  • Loss of appetite with abdominal fullness
  • Paralysis of the lower limbs
  • Warm febrile diseases
  • Epilepsy
  • Wind epilepsy
  • Seizures
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Five types of hemorrhoids
  • Hemafecia
  • Low back pain
  • Lumbago
  • Pain in the vertebral column
  • Abdominal distention
  • Meteorism
  • Abdominal masses
  • Stiffness of the lumbar spine
  • Pain in the epigastric region

COMBINATIONS:

KI-1
Yongquan

Wind epilepsy

 

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • According to several classical texts, moxibustion is contraindicated on this point.

NOTES:

  • This point is said to affect the whole endocrine system.