Governing Vessel

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 長強 (cháng qiáng)

🎯 Location: Midway between tip of the coccyx and anus, locate point with patient in the prone position.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in spinal conditions.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, anxiety, cold, pain, damp

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腰俞 (yāo yú)

🎯 Location: In the hiatus of the sacrum.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in sacral conditions.

🛡️ Treats: pain:hip, epilepsy, haemorrhoids, pain:back:lumbar, sweating:deficiency

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腰陽關 (yāo yáng guān)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 4th lumbar vertebra at the level with iliac crest.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: numbness, pain:back:lumbar, urine:white, benefit:legs, benefit:back:lumbar

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 命門 (mìng mén)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 2nd lumbar vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: fever, anxiety, deficiency:kidney, dizziness, tinnitus

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 懸樞 (xuán shū)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 1st lumbar vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:hip, epilepsy, haemorrhoids, pain:back:lumbar, sweating:deficiency

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 脊中 (jǐ zhōng)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 11th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, jaundice, cold:common, vomiting

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 中樞 (zhōng shū)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 10th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: fever, jaundice, cold:common, vomiting, amenorrhea

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 筋縮 (jīn suō)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 9th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: fever, jaundice, cold:common, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 至陽 (zhì yáng)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 7th thoracic vertebra approximately at the level with inferior angle of the scapula.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: cough, fever, dyspnoea, jaundice, deficiency:qi

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 霊台 (líng tái)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 6th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: cough, fever, dyspnoea, asthma, cold:common

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 神道 (shén dào)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 5th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: cough, fever, anxiety, dizziness, palpitations

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 身柱 (shēn zhù)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 3rd thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: heat:chest, cough, fever, dyspnoea, sweating

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 陶道 (táo dào)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 1st thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: fever, heat, depression, chills, malaria

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 大椎 (dà zhuī)

🎯 Location: Below spinous process of the 7th cervical vertebra approximately at the level of the shoulders.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with C7 vertebra.

🛡️ Treats: fever, dyspnoea, weakness, heat, fullness:chest

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 啞門 (yǎ mén)

🎯 Location: 05 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the posterior hairline in the depression the below spinous process of the 1st cervical vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution near upper cervical spine.

🛡️ Treats: fever, depression, wind, chills, epilepsy

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 風府 (fēng fǔ)

🎯 Location: 1 thumb width directly above the midpoint of the posterior hairline directly below external occipital protuberance in the depression the between trapezius of the both sides.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution; proximity to foramen magnum.

🛡️ Treats: stress, heat:chest, anxiety, sweating, dizziness

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腦戶 (nǎo hù)

🎯 Location: 2.5 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the posterior hairline 1.5 thumb widths directly above the du16 in the depression on the upper border of the external occipital protuberance.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: fever, sweating, dizziness, jaundice, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 強間 (qiáng jiān)

🎯 Location: 4 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the posterior hairline 1.5 thumb widths directly above the du17.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, depression, wind, pain, epilepsy

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 後頂 (hòu dǐng)

🎯 Location: 5.5 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the posterior hairline 1.5 thumb widths directly above the du18.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: sweating, dizziness, wind, pain, aversion:cold

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 百會 (bǎi huì)

🎯 Location: On the midline of the head 5 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the anterior hairline approximately on the midpoint of the line connecting apex of the ears.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, palpitations, jaundice, deficiency:qi

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 前頂 (qián dǐng)

🎯 Location: 3.5 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the anterior hairline 1.5 thumb widths anterior to the du20.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: convulsions, wind, pain, aversion:cold, oedema

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 囟會 (xìn huì)

🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths posterior to the midpoint of the anterior hairline 3 thumb widths anterior to the du20.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in infants; avoid in open fontanelle.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, palpitations, wind, congestion:nasal, swelling:face

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 上星 (shàng xīng)

🎯 Location: 1 thumb width directly above the midpoint of the anterior hairline.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: depression, wind, redness, swelling, malaria

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 神庭 (shén tíng)

🎯 Location: 05 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the anterior hairline.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: fever, dyspnoea, dizziness, palpitations, depression

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 素髎 (sù hé)

🎯 Location: On the tip of the nose.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dyspnoea, nosebleed, polyp:nasal, rhinitis, benefit:nose

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 人中 (rén zhōng)

🎯 Location: At the junction of the upper ⅓ and middle ⅓ of the philtrum.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: fever, jaundice, depression, wind, chills

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 兌端 (duì duān)

🎯 Location: On the labial tubercle of the upper lip on the vermilion the border between philtrum and upper lip.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: heat, depression, epilepsy, congestion:nasal, tongue:dry

🗺️ Meridian: Governing Vessel

🇨🇳 Chinese: 齦交 (yín jiāo)

🎯 Location: At the junction of the gum and frenulum of the upper lip.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid with dental infections.

🛡️ Treats: jaundice, heat, redness, swelling, congestion:nasal