🎯 Location: On the lateral side of the small toe about 0.1 thumb width from corner of the nail.
⚠️ Cautions: Traditionally forbidden in pregnancy – these are the points used to bring on labour at term. Controlled data show no excess of preterm birth or stillbirth (Carr 2015), but in pregnancy needle only on a clear obstetric indication.
Corroborated by a second study. BL67 also appears in another study-reported protocol for the same search. A second publication is not necessarily a second research group. doi:10.1001/jama.280.18.1580 ↗
🎯 Location: On the lateral side of the small toe about 0.1 thumb width from corner of the nail.
⚠️ Cautions: Traditionally forbidden in pregnancy – these are the points used to bring on labour at term. Controlled data show no excess of preterm birth or stillbirth (Carr 2015), but in pregnancy needle only on a clear obstetric indication.
Corroborated by a second study. BL67 also appears in another study-reported protocol for the same search. A second publication is not necessarily a second research group. doi:10.1155/2019/8950924 ↗
🎯 Location: On the lateral side of the small toe about 0.1 thumb width from corner of the nail.
⚠️ Cautions: Traditionally forbidden in pregnancy – these are the points used to bring on labour at term. Controlled data show no excess of preterm birth or stillbirth (Carr 2015), but in pregnancy needle only on a clear obstetric indication.
Corroborated by a second study. BL67 also appears in another study-reported protocol for the same search. A second publication is not necessarily a second research group. doi:10.1155/2019/8950924 ↗
🎯 Location: On the lateral side of the small toe about 0.1 thumb width from corner of the nail.
⚠️ Cautions: Traditionally forbidden in pregnancy – these are the points used to bring on labour at term. Controlled data show no excess of preterm birth or stillbirth (Carr 2015), but in pregnancy needle only on a clear obstetric indication.
Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report.
Zhu Xianmin. Discussing on the application of acupuncture and moxibustion at Zhiyin(BL67) for correction of fetal position. China Medical Herald, 2011
Substantiated by a study. BL67 also appears in a study-reported protocol for the same search. That study did not test this prescription. doi:10.1155/2019/8950924 ↗
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