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Alternate names: 鬼路 guǐ lù, Ghost Road

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

Modern location: An acupoint located on the palmar aspect of the forearm, 3 cùn proximal to the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.

Classic location: In the depression between the two sinews, three cùn from the wrist. (Yī Zōng Jīn Jiàn)

Local anatomy: The median artery and vein; deeper, the anterior interosseous artery and vein. The medial and lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerves, the palmar cutaneous branch of the median nerve; at the deepest level, the anterior interosseous nerve.

Action: Nourishes the heart and quiets the spirit; loosens the chest, transforms phlegm, and harmonizes the stomach; soothes the sinews and quickens the network vessels.

Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; stomach pain; retching and vomiting; febrile disease; malarial disease; mania and withdrawal; epilepsy.

Classic indications: Heart pain; heart palpitations; chest impediment (xiōng bì); vexation and agitation; febrile disease with heart vexation; throat feeling as if blocked; loss of voice; enduring malaria; menstrual irregularities with clotted menstrual discharge; red face and yellow eyes; ghost evil.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5‒1.0 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒5 cones; pole 5‒15 min.

Needle sensation: Distension and numbness, sometimes spreading down to the hands, or upward to the elbow or armpit.

Point groups: River (jīng) (metal) point.

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