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Alternate names: 输府 shū fǔ, Transport House

Channel: KI, foot lesser yīn (shào yīn) kidney channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the chest, in a small depression just inferior to the sternal head of the clavicle, 2 cùn lateral to the midline.

Classical location: Below the clavicle, in the depression two cùn from Jade Pivot (CV-21). From The Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸甲乙经 zhēn jiǔ jiǎ yǐ jīng)

Local anatomy: The anterior perforating branches of the internal mammary artery and vein. The medial supraclavicular nerve.

Action: Diffuses the lung and downbears counterflow; calms panting and suppresses cough; fortifies the spleen and harmonizes the stomach.

Modern indications: Cough; panting; chest pain; retching and vomiting.

Classical indications: Abdominal distension; retching and vomiting; no pleasure in eating.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3 cùn oblique or perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒5 cones; pole 5‒20 min.

Point name meaning:

• 俞 shù: acupuncture point; to transport
• 府 fǔ: house (as a residence or place where official business is conducted), especially collection house (a place where goods or money are collected) or dispatch house (a place incoming goods are dispatched to other places, the metaphor operant in the use of the term to denote six bowels, now written as 腑 fǔ).

KI-27 is the last point on the kidney channel, and as such, is the point to which the kidney channel qì is transported (俞 shù) and at which it gathers (府 fǔ). Though commonly termed Transport House, a rendering as Transport Storehouse is equally appropriate.

The character 府 (fǔ) can refer to an important government building housing the highest political offices. The point may be likened to this type of building because it is the uppermost point on the kidney channel and is the highest point with the label shù (俞) on the body.

Another explanation describes the throat as a multi-story building (府 fǔ). Kidney qì is transported (俞 shù) to the throat through this point. A rendering of the point name as House Transport reflects this idea. Because the character 输 (shū), which generally means transport, is often interchanged with the character 俞 (shù), the alternate name for the point is also Transport House. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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