Location
On the posterior side of the elbow, at the tip of the olecranon the when the elbow is flexed.
Cautions
Avoid in acute elbow injury.
Indications
Conditions for which XU01 is listed as indicated. An indication list is a reference index, not a prescription – see the protocols below for sourced treatments.
Abscess IntestineBoil / FuruncleBoil FuruncleCarbuncleLocal PainPhlegmScrofula SwellingUlcer Deep RootedUlcer Deep-rooted
Protocols using XU01
- Scrofula Neck – ST36, SP06, SP09, HT03, SI14, BL13, BL18, BL43, GB21, GB30, GB34, GV14, XU01 (Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994)
Most often selected alongside XU01
How many sourced protocols in the index pair each point with XU01. Corpus frequency, not a combination to use.
- BL13Lung Shu Point1 protocols
- BL18Liver Shu Point1 protocols
- BL43Vital Region Shu Point1 protocols
- GB21Shoulder Well1 protocols
- GB30Jumping Circle1 protocols
- GB34Yang Mound Spring1 protocols
- GV14Great Vertebra1 protocols
- HT03Lesser Sea1 protocols
- SI14Outer Shoulder Point1 protocols
- SP06Three Yin Intersection1 protocols
- SP09Yin Mound Spring1 protocols
- ST36Leg Three Miles1 protocols
