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Alternate names: 脖胦 bó yāng, Navel; 肓之原 huāng zhī yuán, Huang Origin; 季胦 jì yāng, Small Navel; 下肓 xià huāng, Lower Huang; 下气海 xià qì hǎi, Lower Sea of Qi

Channel: CV, controlling (rèn) vessel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the smaller abdomen, 1.5 cùn inferior to the umbilicus on the midline.

Classic location: In the depression one and a half cùn below the navel. (Zhēn Jiǔ Dà Chéng)

Local anatomy: See CV-5.

Action: Regulates qì and boosts the origin; banks the kidney and supplements vacuity; harmonizes provisioning-blood; regulates menstruation and checks vaginal discharge; warms the lower burner; dispels damp turbidity.

Modern indications: Abdominal pain; diarrhea; constipation; enuresis; mounting qì (shàn qì, inguinal hernia); seminal emission; menstrual irregularities; amenorrhea; vacuity desertion.

Classic indications: Cold damage with pain in the umbilical region; yīn pattern retracted testicles; yáng desertion; reversal cold of the limbs; visceral vacuity and qì fatigue (脏虚气惫 zàng xū qì bèi); insufficiency of true qì; lumbar pain; urinary incontinence in children; heart pain; sudden stroke desertion patterns; pain throughout the bowels and viscera; rough urination with dark urine; infertility; summerheat stroke.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.8‒1.2 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 5‒14 cones; pole 20‒30 min.

Needle sensation: Distension following the course of the controlling vessel downward to the external genitalia, or extending laterally upward or downward.

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