Acupuncture Points for Benefit Collaterals

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 內踝尖 (nèi huái jiān)

🎯 Location: On the highest point of the medial malleolus..

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute ankle injuries.

🛡️ Treats: Heat, Toothache, Sore Throat, Benefit Collaterals, Spasm Leg Medial

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 外踝尖 (wài huái jiān)

🎯 Location: On the protrusion of the external malleolus..

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute ankle injuries.

🛡️ Treats: Heat, Stroke, Hemiplegia, Toothache, Tonsillitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 環中 (huán zhōng)

🎯 Location: On the posterio-superior aspect of the buttock, at the midpoint of the line connecting the prominence of the great the trochanter and the sacral hiatus.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Damp, Uterine Prolapse, Sciatica, Benefit Collaterals, Uterine Prolapse

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 環上 (huán shàng)

🎯 Location: 0.5 thumb widths superior and lateral to the huanzhong (ex-le-13), which is at the midpoint of the line connecting the prominence of the great the trochanter and the hiatus of the sacrum.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Damp, Uterine Prolapse, Sciatica, Benefit Collaterals, Uterine Prolapse

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 環中啥 (huán zhōng shá)

🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths above the and 0.5 thumb widths lateral to the midpoint of the line connecting the end of the coccyx and the pertrochantery.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Damp, Sciatica, Benefit Collaterals, Benefit Collaterals

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 中平 (zhōng píng)

🎯 Location: On the leg, 1 thumb width below zusanli (ST36).

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Benefit Collaterals, Benefit Tendon / Ligament, Immobility Shoulder Frozen, Arthritis Shoulder Scapulohumeral Periarthritis, Benefit Tendon Ligament

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Lower limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 太肩 (tài jiān)

🎯 Location: On the leg, 0.8 directly below yinglingquan (SP09).

⚠️ Cautions: Rule out fracture, dislocation and joint instability before needling, and do not needle into an acutely swollen joint or a haemarthrosis.

🛡️ Treats: Benefit Collaterals, Benefit Tendon / Ligament, Arthritis Shoulder Scapulohumeral Periarthritis, Immobility Neck Sprain, Benefit Tendon Ligament