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Alternate names: 天会 tiān huì, Celestial Convergence

Channel: PC, Hand Reverting Yīn (jué yīn) Pericardium Channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the chest, 1 cùn lateral and slightly superior to the nipple, in the fourth intercostal space.

Classic location: Three cùn below the armpit, one or two cùn behind the nipple, between the protuberances of the ribs. (Yī Zōng Jīn Jiàn)

Local anatomy: The thoracoepigastric vein, branches of the lateral thoracic artery and vein. The muscular branch of the anterior thoracic nerve, the 4th intercostal nerve.

Action: Opens the chest and rectifies qì; suppresses cough and calms panting; diffuses the lung and clears heat.

Modern indications: Cough; panting; oppression in the chest; rib-side pain; scrofula; mammary welling-abscess (rǔ yōng).

Classic indications: Cough with copious phlegm; panting; saber and pearl-string lumps; malarial disease; headache; inability to move the limbs; throat rale.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.2 cùn outward oblique insertion; bleed with three-edged needle. Moxa: 1‒5 cones; pole 5‒19 min.

Point groups: Intersection point (jiāo huì xué) of the pericardium and gallbladder channels.

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