Acupuncture Points on the Stomach Channel of Foot Yang Ming
Alleviates cough and wheezingBenefits the breasts
Fullness and pain in the chest and hypochondrium, cough, asthma, mastitis.
Where is ST-16 located?
- A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 142): On the chest, in the third intercostal space, 4 cun lateral to the midline (Yutang REN-18), on the mamillary line.
- Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 149): In the third intercostal space, 4 cun lateral to the anterior midline.
Puncture obliquely 0.3-0.5 inch. Moxibustion is applicable.
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