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🗺️ Meridian: Conception Vessel
🇨🇳 Chinese: 關元 (guān yuán)
🎯 Location: On the anterior midline 3 thumb widths below umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: cough, diarrhoea, anxiety, dyspnoea, deficiency:kidney
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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian
🇨🇳 Chinese: 腎俞 (shèn yú)
🎯 Location: 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the du4 at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 2nd lumbar vertebra.
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep perpendicular needling.
🛡️ Treats: cough, diarrhoea, asthma, tinnitus, deficiency:qi
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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian
🇨🇳 Chinese: 天樞 (tiān shū)
🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths lateral to the center of the umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute appendicitis; caution in pregnancy.
🛡️ Treats: appetite:weak, diarrhoea, constipation, vomiting, distension:abdomen
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🗺️ Meridian: Large Intestine Meridian
🇨🇳 Chinese: 合谷 (hé gǔ)
🎯 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: Contraindicated during pregnancy; avoid in first trimester.
🛡️ Treats: fever, tinnitus, release:exterior, amenorrhea, wind
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