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Indications
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Protocols
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Location
5 thumb widths above the umbilicus 0.5 thumb widths lateral to the CV13.
Cautions
Caution in pregnancy.
Indications
Conditions for which KD20 is listed as indicated. An indication list is a reference index, not a prescription – see the protocols below for sourced treatments.
CoughFacial DroopDiarrheaDisorientationAbdominal BloatingShortness of BreathEpilepsyChest FullnessUnable to Turn NeckImmobility Neck TurningMalariaRib PainHeart PainPalpitationsPhlegmEye Canthus Medial RednessSpeech ImpairmentUndigested Food in StoolMouth Beneath Tongue SwellingTongue Body ProtrusionVoice LossVomiting
TCM actions
What classical sources say KD20 does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the point, not a condition.
Benefit Regulate Jiao LowerRegulate Jiao LowerUnbind Chest
Protocols using KD20
- Phlegm Misting Heart, Phlegm Misting Heart – ST23, ST24, ST40, ST41, ST45, SI19, BL03, BL08, KD20 (Yang Yong-Xuan, clinical point-selection notes)
- Hiccups, Abdominal Bloating, Lupus Neuropsychiatric – ST36, SP04, KD07, KD20, CV04, CV11 (Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994)
Most often selected alongside KD20
How many sourced protocols in the index pair each point with KD20. Corpus frequency, not a combination to use.
- BL03Eyebrow Ascension1 protocols
- BL08Declining Connection1 protocols
- CV04Original Qi Gate1 protocols
- CV11Strengthen The Interior1 protocols
- KD07Returning Flow1 protocols
- SI19Palace Of Hearing1 protocols
- SP04Grandfather Grandson1 protocols
- ST23Great Unity1 protocols
- ST24Slippery Flesh Gate1 protocols
- ST36Leg Three Miles1 protocols
- ST40Abundant Bulge1 protocols
- ST41Dividing Cleft1 protocols