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Channel: GV, governing (dū) vessel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the lower back, inferior to the spinous process of the fourth lumbar vertebra.

Classical location: Below the sixteenth vertebra. From The Golden Mirror of Medicine (医宗金鑑 yī zōng jīn jiàn)

Local anatomy: The posterior branch of the lumbar artery. The medial branch of the posterior ramus of the lumbar nerve.

Action: Warms the blood chamber and the palace of essence; dispels cold damp in the lower burner.

Modern indications: Menstrual irregularities; seminal emission; impotence; lumbosacral pain; wilting-impediment (wěi bì) lower limbs.

Classical indications: Wind impediment (fēng bì) with insensitivity; amenorrhea; strangury-turbidity (lìn zhuó); enuresis; vomiting; diarrhea.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5‒0.8 cùn insertion slanting slightly to one side. Moxa: 3‒7 cones; pole 10‒20 min.

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