🎯 Location: On the chest directly below nipple, on the lower border of the breast, in the 5th intercostal space 4 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in lactating women; avoid direct needling in breast tissue.
🎯 Location: On the chest directly below nipple, on the lower border of the breast, in the 5th intercostal space 4 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in lactating women; avoid direct needling in breast tissue.
Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report.
Deadman, Al-Khafaji & Baker, A Manual of Acupuncture – point group actions
Substantiated by a study. ST18, LV14, CV17 also appear in a study-reported protocol for the same search. That study did not test this prescription. doi:10.3389/fsurg.2026.1715357 ↗
🎯 Location: On the chest directly below nipple, on the lower border of the breast, in the 5th intercostal space 4 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in lactating women; avoid direct needling in breast tissue.
Substantiated by a study. ST18, CV17 also appear in a study-reported protocol for the same search. That study did not test this prescription. doi:10.3389/fsurg.2026.1715357 ↗
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