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POINT: UB-9 URINARY BLADDER-9

NAME: YUZHEN

English: Jade Pillow
Also Known As:

LOCATION:

  • 1.3 cun lateral to DU-17 Naouhu, on the lateral part of the upper margin of the external occipital protuberance.

NEEDLING:

  • Transverse insertion 0.5-1 cun.
  • Slanted insertion 0.3-0.5 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

ACTIONS:

  • Expels Wind and Cold
  • Alleviates pain
  • Benefits the nose and eyes

INDICATIONS:

  • Occipital headache
  • Pain from Head Wind that is difficult to endure
  • Dizziness
  • Neck pain with inability to turn the head and neck
  • Aversion to Wind
  • Anhidrosis
  • Heaviness of the head and neck
  • A cold sensation in half of the head
  • A cold head with copious sweating
  • A red face
  • Cheek pain
  • Eye pain
  • Bursting eye pain
  • Nearsightedness
  • Nasal congestin
  • Loss of the sense of smell
  • Chills and fever
  • Vomiting
  • Madness
  • Mad walking
  • Epilepsy
  • Collapse on sudden standing
  • Myopia
  • Vertigo

COMBINATIONS:

GB-12
Wanggu

DU-19
Houding
GB-4
Hanyan

DU-22
Xinhui

Pain at the nape of theneck.

Wind dizziness.

Head Wind.

DU-20
Baihui
GB-15
Toulinqi
DU-23
Shangxing

   

Nasal congestion.

    

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • UB-19 Yuzhen is one of the "Three Gates", which includes DU-4 Mingmenand DU-1 Changqiang, which make up "the small heavenly circuit" used in Qigong.