Acupuncture Points on the Bladder Channel of Foot Tai Yang
Regulates Qi in the chest and abdomen
Heart pain, epigastric pain, abdominal distension, borborygmus, chills and fever, breast abscess, itching, psoriasis, alopecia.
Where is BL-16 located?
- A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 272): 1.5 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of the sixth thoracic vertebra (T6).
- Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 177): 1.5 cun lateral to Lingtai (DU-10), at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the sixth thoracic vertebra.
Puncture obliquely 0.5-0.7 inch. Moxibustion is applicable.
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