Results for gallstones

Each card names its evidence kind. What these labels mean

Protocol (5 points)

100%

BL19 · GB24 · GB34 · LV13 · XL06

BL19Gallbladder Shu Point

BL19 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 膽俞 (dǎn shū)

🎯 Location: 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the GV07 at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 10th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep perpendicular needling.

🛡️ Treats: Chest Pain, Palpitations, Jaundice, Common Cold, Vomiting

GB24Sun And Moon

GB24 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Gallbladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 日月 (rì yuè)

🎯 Location: Directly below nipple in the 7th intercostal space 4 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Jaundice, Vomiting, Abdominal Bloating, Abdominal Pain, Upper Stomach Pain

GB34Yang Mound Spring

GB34 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Gallbladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 陽陵泉 (yáng líng quán)

🎯 Location: In the depression the anterior and inferior to the head of the fibula.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Knee Pain, Jaundice, Constipation, Vomiting

LV13Bright Gate

LV13 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Liver Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 章門 (zhāng mén)

🎯 Location: On the lateral side of the abdomen below free end of the 11th rib.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; caution with spleen.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Diarrhea, Anxiety, Shortness of Breath, Jaundice

XL06Gall Bladder Point

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 膽囊穴 (dǎn náng xué)

🎯 Location: Between 1 & 2 thumb widths distal to the yanglingquan gb-34 on the right leg. palpate to the find the area of the maximum tenderness.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute cholecystitis.

🛡️ Treats: Heat, Damp, Rib Pain, Costal Lateral Bloating, Leg Numbness

Study-reported

Thread embedding · 4 sessions over 8 weeks

Point selection reported in a published study.

doi:10.1097/MCG.0000000000001487 ↗
Corroborated by a second study. GB34 also appears in another study-reported protocol for the same search. A second publication is not necessarily a second research group. doi:10.1186/s12906-023-04030-8 ↗

Protocol (8 points)

90%

CVC06 · CVC09 · CYC01 · CYC08 · CYC09 · CYC10 · IAC03 · TF10

CVC06Spleen

CVC06 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Auricular Points

🇨🇳 Chinese: 脾 (pí)

🎯 Location: At the midpoint of a line from Stomach to the notch between Antihelix and Antitragus.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Constipation, Indigestion, Menorrhagia, Lumbago, Gastroptosis

CVC09San Jiao

CVC09 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Auricular Points

🇨🇳 Chinese: 三焦 (sān jiāo)

🎯 Location: At the middle area from the inferior and lateral edge of the hole of the External Auditory Canal to the Nervous Subcortex. This is where the mixed branches of the Facial nerve, Vagus nerve and Glossopharyngeal nerve exit.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Tinnitus, Constipation, Toothache, Edema, Facial Spasm

CYC01Stomach

CYC01 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Auricular Points

🇨🇳 Chinese: 胃 (wèi)

🎯 Location: At the area where Helix Crus disappears.

⚠️ Cautions: Adjunctive only – haematemesis, melaena or unremitting epigastric pain needs urgent medical assessment. Strict asepsis: perichondritis of the auricular cartilage is the significant risk with ear needling.

🛡️ Treats: Vomiting, Toothache, Nausea, Belching, Gastritis

CYC08Liver

CYC08 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Auricular Points

🇨🇳 Chinese: 肝 (gān)

🎯 Location: In the lateral inferior area of the Cymba Conchae.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute hepatitis.

🛡️ Treats: Dizziness, Neurosis, Hypertension, Vertex Headache, Facial Spasm

CYC09Pancreas

CYC09 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Auricular Points

🇨🇳 Chinese: 胰腺 (yí xiàn)

🎯 Location: Between Kidney and Liver on the LEFT ear.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute pancreatitis.

🛡️ Treats: Indigestion, Lethargy, Diabetes, Pancreatitis, Spleen Deficiency

CYC10Gallbladder

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🗺️ Meridian: Auricular Points

🇨🇳 Chinese: 膽 (dǎn)

🎯 Location: Between the Kidney and Liver on the RIGHT ear.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute cholecystitis.

🛡️ Treats: Deafness, Migraine, Herpes Zoster, Abdominal Distention, Excessive Acid Reflux

IAC03Sympathetic

IAC03 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Auricular Points

🇨🇳 Chinese: 交感 (jiāo gǎn)

🎯 Location: On both ears, at the end of the upper edge of the lower Crus of the Antihelix.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Etc, Over Secretion Diseases, Internal Organ Pain, Autonomic Nerve Disorders, Spasms

TF10Shenmen

TF10 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Auricular Points

🇨🇳 Chinese: 神門 (shén mén)

🎯 Location: At the midpoint between Pelvis and Hepatitis.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Pain, Inflammation, Restless Spirit, Emotional And Mental Disorders

Text or case report

Acupressure · a 57-day course

Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report.

Chen Jirui, Nissi Wang (eds). Acupuncture Case Histories from China. Seattle: Eastland Press, 1988
Not substantiated. Studies in the index cover this search, and none of their protocols use any of these points.
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Single-point entry

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GB34Yang Mound Spring

GB34 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Gallbladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 陽陵泉 (yáng líng quán)

🎯 Location: In the depression the anterior and inferior to the head of the fibula.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Knee Pain, Jaundice, Constipation, Vomiting

Study-reported

Needling · 1 session

Point selection reported in a published study.

doi:10.1186/s12906-023-04030-8 ↗
Corroborated by a second study. GB34 also appears in another study-reported protocol for the same search. A second publication is not necessarily a second research group. doi:10.1097/MCG.0000000000001487 ↗
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Single-point entry

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GB34Yang Mound Spring

GB34 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Gallbladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 陽陵泉 (yáng líng quán)

🎯 Location: In the depression the anterior and inferior to the head of the fibula.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Knee Pain, Jaundice, Constipation, Vomiting

Study-reported

Thread embedding

Point selection reported in a published study.

doi:10.51507/j.jams.2024.17.4.133 ↗
Corroborated by a second study. GB34 also appears in another study-reported protocol for the same search. A second publication is not necessarily a second research group. doi:10.1097/MCG.0000000000001487 ↗
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