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POINT: UB-50 (URINARY BLADDER -50)

NAME: WEICANG

English: Stomach's Granary
Also Known As: Stomach's Storehouse

LOCATION:

  • 3 cun lateral to the REN channel at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the twelfth thoracic vertebra.
  • 3 cun lateral to the midline, level with the lower border of the spinous process of the twelfth thoracic vertebra and level with UB-21 Weishu.
    Note: when the shoulder is relaxes, the 3 cun line corresponds to the medial border of the scapula.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture obliquely 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Slanted insertion 0.5 to 0.8 cun.
    Caution: deep perpendicular or deep oblique needling in a medial direction carries a substantial risk of causing a pneumothorax.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

ACTIONS:

  • Harmonizes the Middle Jiao

INDICATIONS:

  • Abdominal distention
  • Pain in the epigastric region and back
  • Infantile indigestion
  • Abdominal fullness
  • Difficult ingestion
  • Sudden turmoil disorder
  • Much Cold
  • Localized edema
  • Stomach ache
  • Gastritis
  • Abdominal pain
  • Deficiency distention
  • Childhood nutritional impairment
  • Edema
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Anorexia

COMBINATIONS:

UB-49
Yishe
UB-46
Geguan

    

Difficult ingestion

   

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This point is good for assimilation of ideas and thoughts and the processing of thoughts.
  • This point is used for difficulty swallowing (when food sticks in lumps).