Conception Vessel

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 會陰 (huì yīn)

🎯 Location: Between anus and root of the scrotum in the males/posterior labial commissure in the females.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with genitourinary infection.

🛡️ Treats: depression, amenorrhea, prolapse:rectum, prolapse:uterus, coma

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 曲骨 (qū gǔ)

🎯 Location: On the midpoint of the upper border of the symphysis pubis.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: deficiency, damp, fullness, enuresis, urination:painful

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 中極 (zhōng jí)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 4 thumb widths below umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy and UTI.

🛡️ Treats: amenorrhea, pain:back, pain, damp, oedema

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 關元 (guān yuán)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 3 thumb widths below umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: cough, diarrhoea, anxiety, dyspnoea, deficiency:kidney

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 石門 (shí mén)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 2 thumb widths below umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated during pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, pain, dysentery, oedema, retention:urine

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 氣海 (qì hǎi)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 1.5 thumb widths below umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, dyspnoea, constipation, weakness:yang, distension:abdomen

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 陰交 (yīn jiāo)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 1 thumb width below umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, pain:knee, constipation, pain:abdomen, amenorrhea

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 神闕 (shén què)

🎯 Location: In the center of the umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications; often use moxa only.

🛡️ Treats: distension:abdomen, prolapse:rectum, oedema, cold:blood, unconsciousness

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 水分 (shuǐ fēn)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 1 thumb width above the umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, oedema, deficiency:stomach, dysfunction:breathing, pain:heart

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 下脘 (xià wǎn)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 2 thumb widths above the umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: pain:epigastrium, nausea, stagnation:food, fullness:abdomen, urine:dark

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 建里 (jiàn lǐ)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 3 thumb widths above the umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: vomiting, distension:abdomen, oedema, pain:heart, disorder:turmoil

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 中脘 (zhōng wǎn)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 4 thumb widths above the umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: appetite:weak, diarrhoea, dyspnoea, cold, depression

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 上脘 (shàng wǎn)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 5 thumb widths above the umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: phlegm, palpitations, jaundice, heat, vomiting

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 巨闕 (jù què)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 6 thumb widths above the umbilicus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in cardiac conditions.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, phlegm, palpitations, jaundice

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 鳩尾 (jiū wěi)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 1 thumb width below xiphoid process, locate point with patient supine with arms raised.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution; proximity to xiphoid process.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, dyspnoea, cough:blood, palpitations

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 中庭 (zhōng tíng)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline at the level with 5th intercostal space on the xiphoid process.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: cold, fullness:chest, benefit:digestion, pain:umbilicus, fullness:costal:lateral

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 膻中 (shān zhōng)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline at the level with 4th intercostal space, midway between nipples.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; caution in cardiac conditions.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, dyspnoea, asthma, fullness:chest

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 玉堂 (yù táng)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline at the level with 3rd intercostal space.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, dyspnoea, fullness:chest, vomiting

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 紫宮 (zǐ gōng)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline at the level with 2nd intercostal space.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, cough:blood, vomiting, benefit:digestion

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 華蓋 (huá gài)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline at the midpoint of the sternal angle at the level with 1st intercostal space.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: cough, dyspnoea, asthma, fullness:chest, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 璇璣 (xuán jī)

🎯 Location: On the anterior midline in the center of the sternal menubrium 1 thumb width below cv22.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: cough, dyspnoea, fullness:chest, pain, wheezing

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 天突 (tiān tū)

🎯 Location: In the center of the suprasternal fossa.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; caution with trachea.

🛡️ Treats: cough, fever, dyspnoea, asthma, cough:blood

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 廉泉 (lián quán)

🎯 Location: Above adam's apple in the depression of the upper border of the hyoid bone.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with hyoid bone.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, dyspnoea, saliva:excessive, dryness:mouth

🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 承漿 (chéng jiāng)

🎯 Location: In the depression the in the center of the mentolabial groove.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: sweating, depression, wind, pain, deviation:eye