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LU-11 Lesser Shāng
少商 〔少商〕 shào shāng
Alternate names: 鬼信 guǐ xìn, Ghost Sincerity
Channel: LU, hand greater yīn (tài yīn) lung channel
Modern location: An acupoint located a little more than 1 fēn below the base of the nail on the radial side of the thumb.
Classical location: On the inside of the thumb, about the width of a garlic chive leaf from the corner of the nail. From
Local anatomy: The arterial and venous network formed by the palmar digital proprial artery and veins. The terminal nerve network formed by the mixed branches of the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve and the superficial ramus of the radial nerve as well as the palmar digital proprial nerve of the median nerve.
Action: Discharges heat and opens the orifices; returns yáng and stems counterflow; disinhibits the throat and settles tetany.
Modern indications: Painful swollen throat; cough; panting; nosebleed; heat effusion; pain and hypertonicity of the fingers; clouding reversal; mania and withdrawal.
Classical indications: Sweating and aversion to cold; swelling of the neck and throat impediment (hóu bì); throat moth in children; child fright wind; persistent nosebleed; strings and aggregations in males; mumps; toothache.
Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.1 cùn upward oblique insertion; bleed with a three-edged needle for wind stroke reversal or severe painful swollen throat.
Needle sensation: Localized pain.
Point groups: Well (jǐng) (wood) point; one of the thirteen ghost points.
Point name meaning:
- 少 shào: lesser, minor (also shǎo, few, little
- 商 shāng: 5th sound of the Chinese musical scale; merchant, trade
The 商 (shāng) sound is the note related to metal and thus the lung.
Shāng may be qualified by 少 (shào) because this is the well (jǐng) point of the channel, where the channel is a mere trickle, i.e., has little qì. If that is the case the translation Small Shāng would be appropriate. See