POINT: UB-12 (URINARY BLADDER-12)
| English: | Wind Gate |
| Also Known As: | Wind Door Wind's Door Wind's Gate |
- 1.5 cun lateral to the DU channel, at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the second thoracic vertebra.
Note: locate at the visible highest point of the paraspinal muscles.
- Puncture obliquely 0.5 to 0.7 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
- Oblique insertion towards the spine0.5 to 1 cun.
- Transverse-oblique insertion 1 to 1.5 cun.
- Caution: perpendicular insertion or oblique insertion away from the spine carries a substantial risk of pneumothorax.
- Straight insertion slanted slightly toward the spine1 to 1.5 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness, sometimes extending between the ribs.
- Transverse insertion pointed downward along the muscle, 1 to 2 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness.
- Caution: care should be taken not to insert the needle too deeply, to avoid puncturing the Lung.
- Meeting point of the DU channel with the Bladder channel
- Opens the Lungs
- Disseminates and descends Lung Qi
- Dispels Wind
- Relaxes the Exterior
- Expels and prevents Exterior Wind
- Releases the Exterior
- Stimulates the Lungs' dispersing function
- Regulates Qi
- Regulates the Ying and the Wei
- Benefits the nose
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- This is the point to use at the very beginning stages of a Wind-Cold or Wind-Heat Attack.