Acupuncture Points on the San Jiao Channel of Hand Shao Yang
- Meeting Point of the Sanjiao Channel and the Yang Linking Vessel
Regulates Qi and transforms phlegmActivates the channel and alleviates pain
Goiter, pain in the shoulder and arm.
Where is SJ-13 located?
- A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 404): On the upper arm, where the line drawn between Tianjing SJ-10 and Jianliao SJ-14 meets the posterior border of the deltoid muscle, approximately two thirds of the distance between these two points.
- Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 206): On the line joining Jianliao (SJ-14) and the olecranon, on the posterior border of m. deltoideus.
Puncture perpendicularly 0.5-0.8 inch. Moxibustion is applicable.
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