BL-31, Shàng Liáo, 上髎, Upper Crevice
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| Categories |
| Meeting point of the Bladder and Gall Bladder channels |
| Location |
| Over the first posterior sacral foramen. |
| Needling |
| Type: Perpendicular Depth: 0.5 to 1 cun, 1.5 to 2 cun |
| Description: Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun, or 1.5 to 2 cun through the foramen. Needling through the foramen is facilitated by a slightly oblique medial and inferior insertion. |
| Caution: CC: Moxa |
| Notes |
| Energetics 1 |
| FOR: Difficult urination and defecation. Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhoea, infertility, leucorrhoea, incessant white leucorrhoea, red and white leucorrhoea, seminal emission, impotence, itching and pain of the genitals, uterine prolapse. Vomiting, nosebleed, malarial chills and fever. Lumbar pain, cold and pain of the back and knees. [36] |
| Energetics 2 |
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