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Indications
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Protocols
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Location
4 thumb widths lateral and superior to the umbilicus.
Cautions
Avoid in acute abdominal conditions.
Indications
Conditions for which XC23 is listed as indicated. An indication list is a reference index, not a prescription – see the protocols below for sourced treatments.
TCM actions
What classical sources say XC23 does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the point, not a condition.
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Protocols using XC23
- Gastroptosis, Abdominal Pain – ST36, PC06, CV06, CV12, XC04, XC23 (Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994)
Most often selected alongside XC23
How many sourced protocols in the index pair each point with XC23. Corpus frequency, not a combination to use.