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Channel: HT, Hand Lesser Yīn (shào yīn) Heart Channel

Modern location: An acupoint located in the center of the armpit, inferior to the axillary artery.

Classic location: Amid the sinews of the armpit, on the inner side of the arm, where the pulsating vessel enters the chest. (Zhēn Jiǔ Dà Chéng)

Local anatomy: Laterally, the axillary artery. The ulnar nerve, median nerve and medial brachial cutaneous nerve.

Action: Rectifies qì and loosens the chest; frees the channels and quickens the network vessels.

Modern indications: Heart pain; dry pharynx and vexation and thirst; chest and rib-side pain: scrofula; elbow and arm pain.

Classic indications: Heart impediment (xīn bì); dry retching; heart pain; thirst with desire to drink; fullness and pain in the rib-side; reversal cold in the arm and elbow.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 1‒3 cones; pole 5‒10 min.

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