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Channel: ST, foot yáng brightness (yáng míng) stomach channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the chest, in the first intercostal space, on the midclavicular line.

Classical location: In the depression, one cùn and six fēn below Qì Door (ST-13), four cùn either side of the midline. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The thoracoacromial artery and vein and branches of the lateral thoracic artery and vein. The branch of the anterior thoracic nerve.

Action: Rectifies qì and loosens the chest.

Modern indications: Cough; panting; coughing and spitting of pus and blood; distension and pain in the chest and rib-side.

Classical indications: Cough and counterflow qì ascent; spitting of turbid foam, pus, and blood; pain in the chest; propping fullness in the chest and rib-side.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3 cùn downward oblique insertion. Moxa: 3‒5 cones; pole 5‒15 min.

Point name meaning:

• 库 chē: storehouse
• 房 fáng: house, room

The chest can be seen to have the shape of a room and to store the heart and lung. This image reflects the point’s location on the chest.

Clinically, ST-14 is used in the treatment of qì ascent cough, panting, and spitting of bloody, turbid, foamy spittle and pus. A functional perception is lent to the point name when we consider its relationship to the lung, the storeroom of the qì.

A third perspective comes from the Chinese word for breast, 乳房 (rǔ fáng) rendered literally as milk room. Both the point name and the word for breast contain the character 房 (fáng), and thus evoke the concept of breast. Chinese medical theory states that after giving birth women retain blood (manifested by the cessation of menstrual discharge) and transform it into milk, which is stored in the breast. ST-14 is located above the breast and is used in the treatment of disorders of the breast, such as mammary welling-abscess. The name Storeroom, if considered a reference to the breast, is then indicative of both the function and location of the point in relation to the breast. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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