Acupoints for Asthma Persistent

🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 肺俞 (fèi yú)

🎯 Location: 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the du12 at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 3rd thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep perpendicular needling.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, fever, dyspnoea, asthma

🗺️ Meridian: Lung Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 太淵 (tài yuān)

🎯 Location: At the radial end of the transverse crease of the wrist in the depression on the lateral side of the radial artery.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in patients with cardiac arrhythmias; avoid excessive stimulation.

🛡️ Treats: cough, dyspnoea, asthma, cough:blood, cold

🗺️ Meridian: Lung Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 尺澤 (chǐ zé)

🎯 Location: On the cubital crease in the depression of the radial side of the biceps brachii tendon; point is located with elbow slightly flexed.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in cases of severe vascular disease; caution with depth at cubital fossa.

🛡️ Treats: cough, diarrhoea, dyspnoea, asthma, pain:knee