🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths lateral to the center of the umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: Acute appendicitis is a surgical emergency – treatment here is adjunctive at most and must never delay surgical assessment. Avoid needling over the gravid uterus after the first trimester; where used in pregnancy, needle shallowly and only on a clear obstetric indication.
🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths lateral to the center of the umbilicus.
⚠️ Cautions: Acute appendicitis is a surgical emergency – treatment here is adjunctive at most and must never delay surgical assessment. Avoid needling over the gravid uterus after the first trimester; where used in pregnancy, needle shallowly and only on a clear obstetric indication.
Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report.
ZHANG Hui-min et al.. Effect of Acupuncture Therapy in Combination with Nutrition Control on Body-weight Reduction in Postpartum Obesity Subjects. 针刺研究, 2017
Substantiated by a study. ST25, ST40, CV09 also appear in a study-reported protocol for the same search. That study did not test this prescription. doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000004716 ↗
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