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POINT: UB-17 (URINARY BLADDER-17)  

NAME: GESHU

English: Diaphragm Shu
Also Known As: Diaphragm's Hollow

LOCATION:

  • 1.5 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of the seventh thoracic vertebra, level with DU-9 Zhiyang.
  • Locate at the visible highest point of the paraspinal muscles.
  • Oblique insertion towards the spine, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Transverse insertion 1 to 1.5 cun.
  • Caution: perpendicular needling or oblique needling away from the spine carries a substantial risk of pneumothorax.

NEEDLING:

  • Straight insertion, slanted slightly toward the spine, 1 to 1.5 cun
    Sensation: local soreness and distention, sometimes extending between the ribs
  • Caution: Do not needle to deeply in order to avoid puncturing the Lung
  • Transverse insertion, pointed downward along the muscle1 to 2 cun
    Sensation: local distention and soreness
    Locate at the highest visible point of the paraspinal muscles.
  • Puncture obliquely 0.5 to 0.7 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Hui-Meeting point of Blood
  • Back-Shu point of the diaphragm

ACTIONS:

  • Regulates the Blood
  • Transforms Congealed Blood
  • Expands the chest and diaphragm
  • Strengthens Deficient conditions
  • Invigorates the Blood
  • Dispels Blood Stasis
  • Cools Blood Heat
  • Stops bleeding
  • Nourishes and harmonizes the Blood
  • Harmonizes the diaphragm
  • Removes obstructions from the diaphragm
  • Descends Rebellious Qi
  • Pacifies Stomach Qi
  • Tonifies Qi and Blood
  • Calms the Shen

INDICATIONS:

  • Upper Jiao wasting and thirsting with intense thirst
  • Steaming bone syndrome
  • Scrofula
  • Urticaria
  • Psoriasis
  • Abscesses
  • Carbuncles
  • Anemia
  • Amenorrhea due to Blood Dryness
  • Tidal fever
  • Fever and chills
  • Night sweats
  • Excessive sweating
  • Stomach ache due to Blood Stasis
  • Abdominal distention and lumps
  • Lassitude
  • Chronic somnolence
  • Hematemesis
  • Spitting Blood
  • Hemafecia
  • All Blood diseases
  • Dizziness
  • Fever with absence of sweat
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Whole body Bi pain
  • Pain of the skin, flesh and bones
  • Frequent stretching and yawning
  • Weariness of the four limbs
  • Somnolence
  • Rigidity of the spine
  • Belching
  • Afternoon fever
  • Hiatal hernia
  • Diaphragmatic spasm
  • Esophageal constriction
  • Chronic bleeding
  • Epistaxis
  • Hemoptysis
  • Nervous vomiting
  • Tuberculosis of the lymph glands
  • Stomach cancer
  • Oppression of the chest
  • Heart pain
  • Stabbing pain of the Heart
  • Mania-Depression
  • Coughing with dyspnea
  • Throat Bi
  • Epigastric pain with vomiting
  • Fullness of the abdomen and lateral costal region
  • Vomiting
  • Vomiting of food eaten the day before
  • Hiccup
  • Difficult ingestion
  • Stomach reflux
  • Inability to eat
  • Heart pain on eating
  • Jaundice
  • Heaviness of the body
  • Swelling, distention and pain of the body
  • Lethargy with no desire to move
  • Back pain
  • Dysphagia
  • Asthma
  • Measles

COMBINATIONS:

REN-22
Tiantu
REN-17
Shanzhong
REN-14
Juque
ST-36
Zusanli

DU-14
Dazhui
UB-21
Weishu
SP-10
Xuehai
ST-36
Zusanli

LU-8
Jingqu

Diaphragmatic spasm

Anemia

Swollen and painful throat (throat Bi)

UB-19
Danshu
UB-43
Gaohuangshu
M-BW-6
Huanmen

LIV-13
Zhangmen
 REN-12
Zhongwan

GB-8
Shuaigu

Moxa for the hundred syndromes of Deficiency-taxation

Moxa for vomiting

Cold Phlegm in the diaphragm and Stomach

UB-45
Yixi
UB-63
Jinmen
LU-5
Chize

REN-19
Zigong
REN-18
Yutang

UB-18
Ganshu

Contraction and Cold of the shoulder and back with pain of the inner aspect of the scapula

Bone pain

Nourishes Liver Blood

Removes Liver Blood Stasis

UB-15
Xinshu

UB-20
Pishu

UB-19
Danshu

Nourishes Heart Blood

Removes Heart Blood Stasis

Nourishes the Spleen's function of manufacturing Blood

Moxa to tonify Qi and Blood (The Four Flowers)

UB-18
Ganshu
UB-20
Pishu

 

 

Moxa to tonify Qi and Blood (The Magnificent Six)

 

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This is an important point with many functions.
  • This is an important point for many kinds of bleeding disorders.
  • It has an important action on the diaphragm.