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POINT: UB-62 (URINARY BLADDER-62)  

NAME: SHENMAI

English: Extending Vessel
Also Known As: Ninth Channel

LOCATION:

  • On the lateral side of the foot, approximately 0.5 cun inferior to the inferior border of the lateral malleolus, in a depression posterior to the peroneal tendons.
  • Note: locate this point directly inferior to the prominence of the lateral malleolus.
  • In the depression directly below the lateral malleolus.

NEEDLING:

  • Oblique insertion directed inferiorly, 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Slanted insertion pointed downward 0.3 to 0.5 cun, causing local distention and soreness.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Confluent (Master) point of the Yang Qiao Mai
  • Coupled point of the DU channel
  • Sun Si-miao Ghost point

ACTIONS:

  • Pacifies Interior Wind
  • Expels Exterior Wind
  • Calms the Shen
  • Treats epilepsy
  • Benefits the head and eyes
  • Opens and regulates the Yang Qiao Mai
  • Activates the channel
  • Alleviates pain
  • Relaxes the muscle channels

INDICATIONS:

  • Chills and fever
  • Intermittent fever
  • Aversion to Wind with spontaneous sweating and a headache
  • Red eyes
  • Red, swollen and painful eyes
  • Eye pain that originates at the inner canthus
  • Eye pain due to an attack of the Yang Qiao Mai
  • Epistaxis
  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Mania-depression
  • Palpitations
  • Heart fright
  • Insomnia
  • Cold Bi of the lumbar region and hip
  • Pain of the lumbar region and leg
  • Difficulty extending and flexing the knee
  • Straw shoe Wind (redness, swelling and pain of the leg and foot)
  • Fullness of the chest
  • Sequelae of Windstroke
  • Psychosis
  • Sensation of electricity or excessive energy in the skin
  • Meningitis
  • Seizures
  • Glaucoma
  • Wind predominant Bi
  • Fatigue
  • Disorientation
  • Vertigo
  • Lassitude of the lower limbs
  • Abdominal pain in women
  • Migraine
  • Hypertension
  • Back ache
  • Aching of the lower extremities
  • Psychosis
  • Mental confusion
  • Mental disorder
  • Atony of the foot
  • Tibial paralysis
  • Quadriplegia
  • Beriberi
  • Pain due to Excess of Qi and Blood in women
  • Tuberculosis
  • Wind dizziness
  • Eye dizziness due to Wind
  • Head Wind
  • Headache
  • Lateral and midline headaches
  • Frontal headache
  • Thunder head Wind
  • Opisthotonis
  • Upward staring eyes
  • Lockjaw
  • Epilepsy
  • Daytime epilepsy
  • Windstroke with aphasia and hemiplegia
  • Deviation of the mouth, face and eyes
  • Conterflow Qi
  • Stiffness of the nape of the neck
  • Stiffness and difficulty extending the back
  • Redness and swelling of the lateral malleolus
  • Blood and Qi pain in women
  • Swelling of the neck and axilla
  • Post cerebrovascular accident hemiplegia and muscle spasms
  • Occipital neuralgia
  • Spinal trouble
  • Meniere's disease
  • Arthritis of the ankle
  • Insanity
  • Post-concussion syndrome
  • Nasal congestion and discharge
  • Uterine spasms
  • Depression
  • Coldness of the foot
  • Dyspnea
  • Dizziness
  • Lumbago
  • Lower limb neuralgia
  • Cerebral hemorrhage
  • Loss of speech due to stroke
  • Hemiplegia
  • Mouth and eyes awry
  • Bi syndrome of the leg
  • Contracture of the leg, knee and foot
  • Dermatosis
  • Sensation of Qi rising
  • Rheumatism in the kidneys
  • Spasms of the uterus
  • Pain control

COMBINATIONS:

UB-63
Jinmen

LI-10
Shousanli
UB-63
Jinmen

ST-41
Jiexi

Head Wind

Severe headache

Head Wind, visual dizziness and stiffness of the nape of the neck

Madness

KI-6
Zhaohai

UB-11
Dazhu
GB-39
Xuanzhong
KI-7
Fuliu
ST-45
Lidui
UB-23
Shenshu

GB-31
Fengshi
GB-30
Huantiao
UB-40
Weizhong
UB-60
Kunlun
ST-33
Yinshi
UB-57
Chengshan

Night-time epilepsy

Diseases below the ankle

Insomnia (reduce Shenmai, reinforce Zhaohai)

Coldness and pain of the bone marrow

Pain of the legs and lumbar region

GB-42
Diwuhui
GB-38
Yangfu
UB-39
Weiyang
PC-1
Tianchi
GB-41
Zulinqi

SJ-17
Yifeng
N-HN-54
Anmian
LIV-3
Taichong

SI-3
Houxi
SI-2
Qiangu

Swelling of the axilla

Meniere's disease

Seizures

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This point expels Cold and Heat and treats one-sided and generalized head Wind.
  • This point has a direct effect on the endocrine glands.