LU-06 (Kong Zui) Collection Hole

What does LU-06 Kong Zui do?

LU-06 is the Xi-Cleft point of the Lung channel, and because the Lung is a YIN channel it carries the bleeding indication that yin Xi-Cleft points classically hold. Xi-Cleft points are where a channel’s qi gathers deeply and are the classical choice for acute and severe conditions — which is exactly how LU-06’s recorded actions read.

• Disseminates and descends Lung qi — the channel’s organ action
• Clears heat and moistens the Lung
• Clears heat and stops bleeding — the yin-channel Xi-Cleft function, and the source of the coughing-blood indication
• Moderates acute conditions — the Xi-Cleft function proper

The rule, stated precisely and checked against our own data. This library holds sixteen Xi-Cleft points. On the six that sit on yin channels — LU-06, HT-06 Yin Xi, P-04 Xi Men, SP-08 Di Ji, KI-05 Shui Quan and LIV-06 Zhong Du — the classical texts add a bleeding indication. On the six yang-channel ones — LI-07, ST-34, SI-06, BL-63, SJ-07, GB-36 — they do not; our own ST-34 record notes that explicitly. The remaining four — KI-08, KI-09, BL-59, GB-35 — are Xi-Cleft points of extraordinary vessels rather than channels.

So LU-06 is the acute Lung point: not the point for a long-standing cough, but the one the classical texts reach for when a Lung condition is sudden or severe, and specifically when there is bleeding from the chest.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (channel, category and action records; all sixteen Xi-Cleft points and their channels queried from our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources.

What is LU-06 Kong Zui used for?

LU-06 is used for acute cough and wheezing, for coughing blood, for sore throat, and for cramping pain along the forearm. Our own indication record is reproduced here in full.

• Cough
• Asthma and wheezing
• Pain in the chest
• Coughing blood (haemoptysis)
• Sore throat
• Spasmodic pain of the elbow and arm

A necessary framing note. Coughing blood requires medical assessment. This record describes a classical use; it is not a suggestion that haemoptysis be managed with acupuncture, and nothing here should delay diagnosis. The same framing is applied throughout this library wherever a classical indication names a symptom that is a medical emergency or a red flag.

The last item is the local one. Cramping pain of the elbow and forearm is what a point on the forearm treats by position, independent of its classification. The other five follow the Lung channel and the Xi-Cleft function.

How it is combined. With LU-05 Chi Ze, the He-Sea and Water point and the Lung channel’s sedation point, for Lung heat — the two sit close on the same forearm. With LU-01 Zhong Fu, the Front-Mu point, and BL-13 Fei Shu, the Back-Shu point, in the classical front-and-back pairing. With LU-07 Lie Que for exterior patterns and cough. All held here.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (indication record; LU-01, LU-05, LU-07 and BL-13 classifications queried from our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources.

Where is LU-06 Kong Zui located?

LU-06 lies on the thumb side of the front of the forearm, seven cun above the wrist, on the line from LU-09 Tai Yuan at the wrist to LU-05 Chi Ze at the elbow. That places it a little above the midpoint of the forearm.

• 7 cun proximal to LU-09 Tai Yuan, on the LU-09 to LU-05 line
• LU-09 Tai Yuan is the Yuan-Source point, the Shu-Stream point, and the Hui-Meeting point of the vessels — at the wrist, on the radial pulse
• LU-05 Chi Ze is the He-Sea and Water point at the elbow crease

It is located by measurement between two points we hold, with no landmark of its own — which is worth knowing, because the forearm is long and an error of a cun places the needle at a different point on the same line. LU-07 Lie Que sits at 1.5 cun above the wrist on the same channel, so the Lung forearm points are distinguished by counting rather than by feel.

On the name. “Kong Zui” is rendered Collection Hole or Maximum Opening. The reading that fits the classification is that this is the greatest gathering-place of the channel’s qi — which is what a Xi-Cleft point is. Like P-04 Xi Men, whose name means Cleft Gate, this is a point whose name announces its category rather than its position.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (location and translation records, retained unchanged; LU-05, LU-07 and LU-09 classifications queried from our own data).

• A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 82): On the flexor aspect of the forearm, 7 cun proximal to Taiyuan LU-9, on the line connecting Taiyuan LU-9 with Chize LU-5.
• Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 137): On the palmar aspect of the forearm, on the line joining Taiyuan (LU-9) and Chize (LU-5), 7 cun above the transverse crease of the wrist.

How is LU-06 Kong Zui needled?

The standard texts record perpendicular insertion to roughly 0.5–1.0 inch, with moxibustion applicable. What follows is a neutral record of what the reference literature documents, not instruction for a reader.

• Angle and depth as recorded: perpendicular, 0.5–1.0 inch.
• Moxibustion: recorded as applicable.
• Regional anatomy: the point lies over brachioradialis at the radial border of the forearm. The radial artery runs deep along this border, and the superficial branch of the radial nerve descends beneath brachioradialis in the same region; the cephalic vein is superficial.

Hazard, stated proportionately. The forearm has no body cavity beneath it and this is not a high-hazard point. The relevant structure is the radial artery, which lies along the same radial border of the forearm that the Lung channel follows — the reason LU-09 at the wrist is the classical pulse-taking position. Our record for LU-09 notes that no case report naming that point in a vascular injury was located, and gives a 31-case vascular-injury review for proportion instead. The same is true here: no case report naming LU-06 was located, and none is asserted.

What is not claimed. No study measuring a safe depth at LU-06 could be located. The measured safe-depth work in this library covers thoracic, lumbar, gluteal, orbital and neck points; none describes the forearm, and no figure is borrowed here.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (needling record, retained unchanged; LU-09's vascular-injury finding queried from our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources; regional anatomy from standard anatomical description.

Is there research on LU-06, and what should a reader know?

No trial isolates LU-06. Where the point appears it is one component of a multi-point protocol for asthma, cough or allergic conditions, and a study that includes a point in a protocol is not evidence about that point.

Where this channel’s attention has gone. LU-07 Lie Que carries most of the Lung channel’s modern literature, and our record for it reports the honest result: the only head-to-head point-specific finding is negative — LU-07 behaved like the non-acupoint control when tested against P-06. That is a useful calibration for the whole channel, and it belongs to LU-07 rather than here.

What makes LU-06 worth a page. Its classification is firm, checkable and explanatory: it is the Lung’s Xi-Cleft point on a yin channel, which predicts both its acute indications and its bleeding indication before any text is consulted. That is the kind of structural fact a reference can state with confidence, and it does more work for a reader than a thin research section would.

A note on searching for it. “LU 6” and “Kongzui” searches return protocol trials and, as repeatedly found elsewhere in this library, unrelated material matched on the code or a surname. Any claim attached to this point should be checked against what a study actually measured.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (classification and indication records; LU-07's research findings queried from our own data).