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POINT: GB-24 (GALL BLADDER-24)  

NAME: RIYUE

English: Sun and Moon
Also Known As:

LOCATION:

  • Directly below the nipple, in the seventh intercostal space, 4 cun lateral to the anterior midline.
  • Located on the mammilary line in the seventh intercostal space.
  • One rib below LIV-14 Qimen, in the seventh intercostal space.
    Note: First locate the second intercostal space, just below the sternal angle, then locate the seventh intercostal space, five spaces below that. In males the nipple lies in the fourth intercostal space.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture obliquely 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Slanted insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Transverse-oblique insertion along the intercostal space 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Caution: deep or perpendicular insertion may cause a pneumothorax.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Front-Mu point of the Gall Bladder
  • Meeting point with the Spleen and Yang Wei channels

ACTIONS:

  • Resolves Damp-Heat
  • Promotes the functions of the Gall Bladder and Liver
  • Benefits the Gall Bladder
  • Spreads Liver Qi
  • Lowers Rebellious Qi
  • Harmonizes the Middle Jiao

INDICATIONS:

  • Jaundice
  • Hypochondriac pain and distention
  • A feeling of heaviness
  • Nausea
  • A sticky yellow tongue coat
  • Gall stones
  • Acute diseases of the biliary tract
  • Gastric and duodenal ulcers
  • Shoulder pain
  • Intercostal pain
  • Intercostal neuralgia
  • Difficulty speaking
  • Sighing
  • Fatigued extremities
  • Distention, fullness and pain of the lateral costal region
  • Epigastric pain
  • Abdominal distention
  • Heat of the hypogastrium
  • Rigid outlook (everything id black and white)
  • Vomiting
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Hiccup
  • Mastitis
  • Pain in the ribs and sides
  • Pain in the chest and hypochondrium
  • Acute and chronic hepatitis
  • Cholecystitis
  • Oppression and anguish
  • Frequent sighing and groaning
  • Wants to run
  • Speaks indistinctly
  • Paralysis of the four limbs
  • Sensation of Heat in the lower abdomen
  • Much spittle
  • Sighing with a tendency to sadness
  • Loss of the use of the four limbs

COMBINATIONS:

GB-34
Yanglingquan
LI-11
Quchi

UB-19
Danshu

SP-5
Shangqiu

Resolves Damp-Heat

Frequent indecisiveness with a bitter taste in the mouth

Sighing with a propensity to sadness

HT-1
Jiquan
UB-20
Pishu

ST-19
Burong
M-LE-23
Dannangxue
SJ-6
Zhigou
GB-40
Qiuxu

 

Loss of the use of the four limbs

Cholecystitis

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This is an important to resolve Damp-Heat affecting the Gall Bladder and Liver.