Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
35 Acupuncture Points
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XC01Child Palace (Uterus)

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 子宮 (zǐ gōng)
🎯 Location: On the abdomen, 3 thumb widths lateral to the midline, level with zongji ren-3.
⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated during pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: deficiency:qi, pain, prolapse:uterus, infertility, bleeding:uterine:abnormal
XC02AMoxibustion Triangle / Beside The Umbilicus / Axillary Cavity

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 三角灸 / 臍旁 / 疝气穴 (sān jiǎo jiǔ / qí páng / shàn qì xué)
🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths lateral from the midline, 1.5 thumb widths below the umbilicus..
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in abdominal conditions.
🛡️ Treats: pain:abdomen, diarrhoea:chronic, prolapse:uterus, pain:umbilicus, disorder:shan
XC02BMoxibustion Triangle / Beside The Umbilicus / Axillary Cavity

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 三角灸 / 臍旁 / 疝气穴 (sān jiǎo jiǔ / qí páng / shàn qì xué)
🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths lateral from the midline, 1.5 thumb widths below the umbilicus..
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in abdominal conditions.
🛡️ Treats: pain:abdomen, diarrhoea:chronic, prolapse:uterus, pain:umbilicus, disorder:shan
XC03Blood Gate

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 血门 (xuè mén)
🎯 Location: 4 thumb widths above the umbilicus, 3 thumb widths lateral to the zhongwan (cv12).
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: benefit:digestion, pain:stomach:ache, gastritis, clotting:abdomen:female
XC04Stomach Lift

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 胃上 (wèi shàng)
🎯 Location: 4 thumb widths lateral and 2 thumb widths superior to the umbilicus..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute abdominal conditions.
🛡️ Treats: pain:abdomen, benefit:digestion, pain:stomach, raise:yang, gastroptosis
XC05AUmbilicus Four Sides

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 臍中四邊 (qí zhōng sì biān)
🎯 Location: On the middle part of the abdomen, 1 thumb width respectively lateral to the up, lower, left and right middle of the umbilicus. includes shuifen (cv9) above the navel and yinjiao (cv7) below the navel, which are acupoints of the conception the vessel..
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, pain:abdomen, deficiency:spleen, oedema, benefit:digestion
XC05BUmbilicus Four Sides

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 臍中四邊 (qí zhōng sì biān)
🎯 Location: On the middle part of the abdomen, 1 thumb width respectively lateral to the up, lower, left and right middle of the umbilicus. includes shuifen (cv9) above the navel and yinjiao (cv7) below the navel, which are acupoints of the conception the vessel..
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, pain:abdomen, deficiency:spleen, oedema, benefit:digestion
XC05CUmbilicus Four Sides

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 臍中四邊 (qí zhōng sì biān)
🎯 Location: On the middle part of the abdomen, 1 thumb width respectively lateral to the up, lower, left and right middle of the umbilicus. includes shuifen (cv9) above the navel and yinjiao (cv7) below the navel, which are acupoints of the conception the vessel..
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, pain:abdomen, deficiency:spleen, oedema, benefit:digestion
XC05DUmbilicus Four Sides

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 臍中四邊 (qí zhōng sì biān)
🎯 Location: On the middle part of the abdomen, 1 thumb width respectively lateral to the up, lower, left and right middle of the umbilicus. includes shuifen (cv9) above the navel and yinjiao (cv7) below the navel, which are acupoints of the conception the vessel..
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, pain:abdomen, deficiency:spleen, oedema, benefit:digestion
XC06Jade Gate

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 玉门 (yù mén)
🎯 Location: On the female external genitalia, at the centre of the clitoris.
⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated during pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: calm:mind, dysfunction:psychological:psychosis
XC07Diuretic

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 利尿穴 (lì niào xué)
🎯 Location: 2.5 thumb widths below the umbilicus on the median abdominal line..
⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.
🛡️ Treats: dysentery, enuresis, enteritis, dysfunction:urination:retention
XC08Qi Gate Point

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 气门穴 (qì mén xué)
🎯 Location: On the abdomen, 3 thumb widths lateral and 3 thumb widths below the umbilicus..
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: pain:abdomen, infertility, bleeding:uterine:abnormal, benefit:yin, syndrome:lymphatic
XC09Raise Hand

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 提托 (tí tuō)
🎯 Location: On the lower abdomen, 4 thumb widths lateral to the midline, level with guanyuan ren-4.
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: deficiency:qi, distension:abdomen, pain:abdomen, prolapse:uterus, dysmenorrhoea
XC10Chest Valley

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 胸通谷 (xiōng tōng gǔ)
🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths below the nipple.
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: pain:hypochondriac, neuralgia:intercostal, pleurisy, heartache
XC11APlum Blossom

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 梅花 (méi huā)
🎯 Location: At the midpoint of the line connecting the lower edge of the sternum and the umbilical line of the anterior midline; the midline is on the five-point line to the sides, the lower edge of the sternum is three inches and five points at the two points; divided into the two points, a total of the five points..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, appetite:loss, benefit:digestion, dilatation:stomach, cramping:stomach
XC11BPlum Blossom

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 梅花 (méi huā)
🎯 Location: At the midpoint of the line connecting the lower edge of the sternum and the umbilical line of the anterior midline; the midline is on the five-point line to the sides, the lower edge of the sternum is three inches and five points at the two points; divided into the two points, a total of the five points..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, appetite:loss, benefit:digestion, dilatation:stomach, cramping:stomach
XC11CPlum Blossom

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 梅花 (méi huā)
🎯 Location: At the midpoint of the line connecting the lower edge of the sternum and the umbilical line of the anterior midline; the midline is on the five-point line to the sides, the lower edge of the sternum is three inches and five points at the two points; divided into the two points, a total of the five points..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, appetite:loss, benefit:digestion, dilatation:stomach, cramping:stomach
XC11DPlum Blossom

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 梅花 (méi huā)
🎯 Location: At the midpoint of the line connecting the lower edge of the sternum and the umbilical line of the anterior midline; the midline is on the five-point line to the sides, the lower edge of the sternum is three inches and five points at the two points; divided into the two points, a total of the five points..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, appetite:loss, benefit:digestion, dilatation:stomach, cramping:stomach
XC11EPlum Blossom

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 梅花 (méi huā)
🎯 Location: At the midpoint of the line connecting the lower edge of the sternum and the umbilical line of the anterior midline; the midline is on the five-point line to the sides, the lower edge of the sternum is three inches and five points at the two points; divided into the two points, a total of the five points..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, appetite:loss, benefit:digestion, dilatation:stomach, cramping:stomach
XC12Accumulation

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 肓募 (huāng mù)
🎯 Location: Directly below the nipple, half-way down to the level of the umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: weakness, stagnation:qi, pain:abdomen, chlorosis, weight:loss
XC13AQi Middle

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 气中 (qì zhōng)
🎯 Location: 1.5 inches below the navel, 1.5 inches away from the midline of the abdomen, 2 points on the left and right.
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: asthma, pain:abdomen
XC13BQi Middle

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 气中 (qì zhōng)
🎯 Location: 1.5 inches below the navel, 1.5 inches away from the midline of the abdomen, 2 points on the left and right.
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: asthma, pain:abdomen
XC14ALong Valley

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 长谷 (循際) (cháng gǔ ( xún jì ))
🎯 Location: 2.5 thumb widths left of the umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.
🛡️ Treats: appetite:weak, diarrhoea, sweating, oedema, weakness:limb
XC14BLong Valley

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 长谷 (長平) (cháng gǔ ( cháng píng ))
🎯 Location: 2.5 thumb widths right of the umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.
🛡️ Treats: appetite:weak, diarrhoea, sweating, oedema, weakness:limb
XC15Broken Household

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 断户 (duàn hù)
🎯 Location: 2.5 thumb widths below the umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.
🛡️ Treats: constipation, vomiting, pain:abdomen
XC16Intestinal Remains

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 肠遗 (cháng yí)
🎯 Location: 2.5 thumb widths lateral to the zhongji (cv3).
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute abdominal conditions.
🛡️ Treats: constipation
XC17Through The Middle

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 经中 (jīng zhōng)
🎯 Location: 1.5 thumb widths below umbilicus, 3 thumb widths lateral.
⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.
🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, constipation, heat, dysfunction:urination, enteritis
XC18Spring Yin

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 泉阴 (quán yīn)
🎯 Location: 3 thumb widths lateral to the qugu (cv2), on the upper border of the pubic symphysis..
⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.
🛡️ Treats: pain:testicle, orchitis
XC19Rib Space

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 肋罅 (lèi xià)
🎯 Location: 4 thumb widths lateral to the nipple, approximately in the 4th intercostal space..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: pain:abdomen, pleurisy, peritonitis
XC20Turning Valley

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 转谷 (zhuǎn gǔ)
🎯 Location: Directly below the armpit crease, between the 3rd and 4th ribs..
⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.
🛡️ Treats: vomiting, nausea, pleurisy, spasm:chest:muscle, neuralgia:intermuscular
XC21After The Perineum

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 會陰後 (huì yīn hòu)
🎯 Location: On the midpoint of the line connecting the perineum and anus.
⚠️ Cautions: Caution with genitourinary infection.
🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, circulation:blood, prostatitis
XC22Flank Hall

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 胁堂 (xié táng)
🎯 Location: On the middle line, 2 thumb widths below the armpit..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: asthma, sputum, fullness:chest, eye:yellow
XC23Raise Stomach

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 提胃 (tí wèi)
🎯 Location: 4 thumb widths lateral and superior to the umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute abdominal conditions.
🛡️ Treats: benefit:digestion, raise:yang, gastroptosis, ptosis:stomach, dyspepsia
XC24Abdominal Muscle

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 腹肌松 (fù jī sōng)
🎯 Location: At the intersection of the lateral umbilical line and the midline of the iliac crest..
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: tension:abdomen:muscle
XC25Level With The Armpit

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Chest & Abdomen
🇨🇳 Chinese: 腋平穴 (yè píng xué)
🎯 Location: Top of the main the transverse stripes parallel to the skin the and torso of the anterior iliac crest..
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.
🛡️ Treats: pain:arm, anaesthesia