Acupuncture Points for Unbind Chest

🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 氣戶 (qì hù)

🎯 Location: At the lower border of the middle of the clavicle 4 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Risk of pneumothorax; avoid deep needling.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath, Asthma, Chest Fullness

🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 库房 (kù fáng)

🎯 Location: In the 1st intercostal space 4 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Risk of pneumothorax; avoid deep perpendicular needling.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Shortness of Breath, Coughing Blood, Chest Fullness, Cough Pus

🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 屋翳 (wū yì)

🎯 Location: In the 2nd intercostal space 4 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Risk of pneumothorax; avoid deep needling.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath, Coughing Blood, Heaviness

🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 乳根 (rǔ gēn)

🎯 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.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Shortness of Breath, Swelling, Breast Abscess, Breast Pain

🗺️ Meridian: Spleen Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 隱白 (yǐn bái)

🎯 Location: On the medial side of the great the toe 0.1 thumb width posterior to the corner of the nail.

⚠️ Cautions: Anticoagulant therapy or a coagulopathy raises the risk of haematoma at the needling site – apply prolonged pressure on withdrawal. The precaution governs technique; bleeding disorders remain a treatable indication.

🛡️ Treats: Heat Chest, Fever, Diarrhea, Shortness of Breath, Depression

🗺️ Meridian: Spleen Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 胸鄉 (xiōng xiāng)

🎯 Location: In the 3rd intercostal space 6 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Fullness, Costal Lateral Fullness, Unbind Chest, Back Fullness

🗺️ Meridian: Spleen Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 周榮 (zhōu róng)

🎯 Location: In the 2nd intercostal space 6 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Fullness, Benefit Digestion, Costal Lateral Fullness, Chest Bloating

🗺️ Meridian: Spleen Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 大包 (dà bāo)

🎯 Location: On the lateral side of the chest on the middle axillary line in the 6th intercostal space.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath, Pain, Rib Pain

🗺️ Meridian: Heart Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 極泉 (jí quán)

🎯 Location: When upper arm is abducted point is in the center of the axilla on the medial side of the axillary artery.

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated for needling; proximity to axillary artery.

🛡️ Treats: Chest Pain, Anxiety, Palpitations, Elbow Pain, Retching

🗺️ Meridian: Small Intestine Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 天宗 (tiān zōng)

🎯 Location: On the scapula in the depression of the center of the subscapular fossa and at the level of the 4th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: Rule out fracture, dislocation and joint instability before needling, and do not needle into an acutely swollen joint or a haemarthrosis.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Qi Stagnation, Chest Fullness, Elbow Pain, Shoulder Blade Pain

🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 厥陰俞 (jué yīn yú)

🎯 Location: 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the du mai at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 4th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep perpendicular needling.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Asthma, Palpitations, Vomiting

🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 心俞 (xīn yú)

🎯 Location: 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the GV11 at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 5th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep perpendicular needling – risk of pneumothorax. New, worsening or unstable cardiac symptoms need medical assessment before treatment.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Anxiety, Sweating, Coughing Blood

🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 神堂 (shén táng)

🎯 Location: 3 thumb widths lateral to the GV11 at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 5th thoracic vertebra on the spinal border of the scapula.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep perpendicular needling due to risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Fever, Shortness of Breath, Asthma

🗺️ Meridian: Kidney Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腹通谷 (fù tōng gǔ)

🎯 Location: 5 thumb widths above the umbilicus 0.5 thumb widths lateral to the CV13.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Diarrhea, Shortness of Breath, Phlegm, Palpitations

🗺️ Meridian: Kidney Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 步廊 (bù láng)

🎯 Location: In the 5th intercostal space 2 thumb widths lateral to the cv mai.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath, Asthma, Qi Deficiency

🗺️ Meridian: Kidney Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 神封 (shén fēng)

🎯 Location: In the 4th intercostal space 2 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Asthma, Chest Fullness, Vomiting, Breast Abscess

🗺️ Meridian: Kidney Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 靈墟 (líng xū)

🎯 Location: In the 3rd intercostal space 2 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Asthma, Palpitations, Vomiting

🗺️ Meridian: Kidney Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 神藏 (shén cáng)

🎯 Location: In the 2nd intercostal space 2 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Shortness of Breath, Asthma, Chest Fullness, Vomiting

🗺️ Meridian: Kidney Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 彧中 (yù zhōng)

🎯 Location: In the 1st intercostal space 2 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Shortness of Breath, Phlegm, Asthma, Coughing Blood

🗺️ Meridian: Kidney Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 俞府 (yú fǔ)

🎯 Location: In the depression on the lower border of the clavicle 2 thumb widths lateral to the anterior midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath, Phlegm, Vomiting