BL-40, Wěi Zhōng, 委中, Middle of the Crook
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| Categories |
| Command Point - Lumbar and Back • He-Sea Point • Heavenly Star Point • EmpIrical - back pain |
| Location |
| At the back of the knee, on the popliteal crease, in a depression midway between the tendons of biceps femoris and semitendinosus. Locate with the knee slightly flexed. |
| Needling |
| Type: Perpendicular Depth: 1 to 1.5 cun |
| Description: Perpendicular insertion 1 to 1.5 cun, or prick and bleed the superficial veins. |
| Caution: The tibial nerve and the popliteal artery and vein lie deep to this point. |
| Notes |
| Energetics 1 |
| COMMAND POINT: blood heat, pain, atrophy, weakess along the bladder channel (lumbar, buttock, sacrum, coccyx, thigh, hip, knee, legs) stiffness, windstroke, muscle atrophy, knee pain radiating to big toe |
| Energetics 2 |
| HE-SEA POINT: summer heat, alternating fevers and chills, intense thirst, vomiting , diarrhea, dysentery, sudden turmoil disorder, nosebleed, headaches, sore throat, enuresis, scanty urination, dermatological issues: clove sores, eczema, urticaria. |
| Energetics 3 |
| Empirical point for back and lower back pain. |
| Energetics 4 |
| THREADING: BL40 to BL55 (Patient prone; puncture obliquely with 15 degree angle; indicated for lower back pain, skin disease, calf spasm)[Fan, Y. July 22, 2024. PowerPoint] |
| Energetics 5 |
| LI11+BL40 = Clear skin rashes[42] |
| Energetics 6 |
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