🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the hand between 1st & 2nd metacarpal bones approximately in the middle of the 2nd metacarpal bone on the radial side.
⚠️ 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.
🎯 Location: In the superior lateral part of the anterior thoracic wall superior to the coracoid process of the scapula in the depression of the infraclavicular fossa 6 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling due to proximity to lungs and blood vessels; contraindicated in hemoptysis.
Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report.
Acupuncture Point Prescriptions, entry ACC4
Substantiated by a study. LI11, ST36, SP06, PC06 also appear in a study-reported protocol for the same search. That study did not test this prescription. doi:10.19917/j.cnki.1005-0779.022190 ↗
🎯 Location: Laterosuperior to the sternum 1 thumb width below LU02 at the level of the 1st intercostal space 6 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.
⚠️ Cautions: Needle obliquely or laterally, never deeply or medially – risk of pneumothorax.
Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report.
Yang Yong-Xuan, clinical point-selection notes
Substantiated by a study. LI04 also appears in a study-reported protocol for the same search. That study did not test this prescription. doi:10.19917/j.cnki.1005-0779.022190 ↗
Substantiated by a study. LI04 also appears in a study-reported protocol for the same search. That study did not test this prescription. doi:10.19917/j.cnki.1005-0779.022190 ↗
🎯 Location: Superior to the styloid process of the radius 1.5 thumb widths above the transverse crease of the wrist between brachioradialis and tendon of the abductor policis longus.
⚠️ Cautions: Use with caution in patients with radial nerve sensitivity.
Substantiated by a study. LI04 also appears in a study-reported protocol for the same search. That study did not test this prescription. doi:10.19917/j.cnki.1005-0779.022190 ↗
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How the studies delivered it
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After a treatment: what large safety surveys recorded, and which reactions need a doctor.
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