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SJ-13 (Nao Hui) Upper Arm Convergence


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 phlegm
  • Activates 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.

    Sources & References

    Compiled and edited by Thomas Dehli, Founder & Editor, Sacred Lotus

    The information here is referenced from numerous sources — teachers, practitioners, class notes from Five Branches University, the books below, and the published research literature, with citations given as resolvable PubMed identifiers. Where sources disagree, I have flagged the discrepancies directly. If facts couldn't be verified, I have left them out. How we source our content.

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