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POINT: SJ-10 (SAN JIAO - 10)

NAME: TIANJING

English: Heavenly Well
Also Known As: Celestial Wells

LOCATION:

  • With the elbow flexed, the point is in a depression about 1 cun superior to the olecranon.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Earth point
  • Sedation point
  • He-Sea point

ACTIONS:

  • Relaxes tendons
  • Resolves Dampness and Phlegm
  • Dispels nodules
  • Clears Heat
  • Dispels Stagnation
  • Regulates the Ying and Wei
  • Regulates Qi
  • Descends rebellion
  • Calms the Shen
  • Alleviates pain

INDICATIONS:

  • Painful jaw
  • Lumbago
  • Pain in the head
  • Arm pain
  • Shoulder pain
  • Chest pain
  • Elbow pain
  • Pain behind the ear
  • Restlessness
  • Hot flashes (sedate)
  • Anorexia
  • Tidal fever
  • Excessive sweating
  • Chest and hypochondriac fullness and pain
  • Insanity
  • Hysteria
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Somnolence
  • Costal pain
  • Painful spasms of the neck and upper back
  • Diseases of the soft tissue of the elbow
  • Five types of epilepsy
  • Convulsions
  • Laryngitis
  • Tonsillitis
  • Eye pain
  • Post-traumatic pain in the renal region which prevents lying down
  • Lymphadenitis
  • Cough with fullness of the abdomen and no pleasure in eating or drinking
  • Distention and pain of the lower abdomen
  • Tongue thrusting
  • Swelling and pain of the cheek
  • Swelling and pain of the throat
  • Malaria
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Scapular pain
  • Numbness of the shoulder
  • Inability to speak
  • Inability to lie down
  • Headaches
  • Partial deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Red and swollen outer canthus
  • Dislike of food during a fever
  • Emotional instability
  • Urticaria
  • Deafness
  • Throat Bi
  • Cough with purulent sputum or Blood
  • Upper body edema
  • Pain and swelling of the nape, neck, shoulder or upper arms
  • Goiter
  • Scrofula
  • Elbow injuries with pain and stiffness
  • Unilateral headache
  • Migraine headache
  • Pain in the elbow and arm
  • Arthritis of the elbow and wrist
  • Depressive psychosis
  • Madness
  • Psychopathy
  • Schizophrenia
  • Cough with a sensation of qi rising
  • Bronchitis
  • Pain in the Heart and chest
  • Coughing and vomiting pus and Blood
  • Sadness
  • Propensity to fright
  • Fright palpitations
  • Leg Qi attacking upwards
  • Clonic spasms
  • Atrophy disorder and numbness of the arm
  • Bi syndrome of the arm
  • Wind Bi with contraction of the sinews and pain of the bones
  • Elbow pain radiating to the shoulder
  • Lumbar pain due to trauma

COMBINATIONS:

HT-3
Shaohai

or

SI-1
Shaoze

REN-14
Juque
UB-15
Xinshu

UB-15
Xinshu
 DU-11
Shendao

Scrofula

Heart disorientation

Sadness, anxiety and disorientation

SJ-2
Yemen
DU-20
Baihui
DU-11
Shendao

SJ-8
Sanyangluo
LIV-10
Zuwuli
ST-45
Lidui
LI-3
Sanjian

REN-17
Shanzhong

Fright palpitations

Somnolence with no desire to move the four limbs

Chest Bi and Heart pain

Fullness of the Heart and abdomen

GB-41
Zulinqi

UB-59
Fuyang

SJ-5
Waiguan
UB-40
Weizhong
LI-11
Quchi

Chest Bi and Heart Pain

Clonic spasm

Atrophy disorder and numbness of the arm

LU-3
Chize
HT-3
Shaohai
UB-40
Weizhong
GB-38
Yangfu

HT-3
Shaohai

or

LI-11 joined to HT-3
Quchi joined to Shaohai

 

Wind Bi

Nodular growths in the neck

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • This point is forbidden to needle after the fourth month of pregnancy.

NOTES:

  • This is known as the "serene tranquility point".
  • This is the most neglected point in the whole body.
  • It keeps stability of mind, gives peace and serenity to sick patients.
  • It treats all types of acute pain.
  • It is a heavenly well of energy that we can reach into in times of drought. It can completely recharge the patient.
  • For disorders of the San Jiao, use the Lower He-Sea point of the San Jiao, UB-39 Weiyang.
  • This is a special point for scrofula.