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Alternate names: 长平 cháng píng, Long Level; 肪髎 fáng liáo, Lard Bone-Hole; 后章门 hòu zhāng mén, Rear Camphorwood Gate; 季肋 jì lèi, Free Ribs; 季胁 jì xié, Free Ribs; 脾募 pí mù, Spleen Alarm; 胁髎 xié liáo, Rib-Side Bone-Hole; 胁窌 xié liáo, Rib-Side Bone-Hole; 肘尖 zhǒu jiān, Tip of the Elbow

Channel: LR, Foot Reverting Yīn (jué yīn) Liver Channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the lateral aspect of the abdomen, approximately on the midaxillary line, immediately below the tip of the eleventh rib.

Classic location: In the region of the free ribs, two cùn above the navel and six cùn either side of the midline. The point is found with the patient on his side with the top leg bent and bottom leg extended. Also, the point is located where the tip of elbow touches. (Zhēn Jiǔ Dà Chéng)

Local anatomy: The sixth intercostal artery and vein. The sixth intercostal nerve.

Action: Courses the liver and rectifies qì; quickens the blood and transforms stasis.

Modern indications: Abdominal distension; diarrhea; rib-side pain; glomus lump.

Classic indications: Cold strike throughflux diarrhea (dòng xiè); copious urine and white turbidity; cold and pain in the back and lumbar region; rib-side pain; propping fullness in the chest and rib-side; all types of accumulations, gatherings, and glomus lump; stone water; yellowing of the body and marked emaciation; heat vexation with no pleasure in eating; panting; heart pain and retching; irascibility; scantness of breath; reverse flow; inability to raise the arms and shoulders; saber scrofula; twitching of the body; shifted bladder with urinary stoppage; enduring jaundice developing into black jaundice; yellowing of the body with darkening of the forehead.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.6‒1.0 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3 cones; pole 20‒50 min.

Needle sensation: Localized distension, sometimes extending towards the rear abdominal wall.

Point groups: Alarm point (mù xué) of the spleen; meeting point (huì xué) of the viscera; intersection point (jiāo huì xué) of the liver and gallbladder channels.

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