| TRANSLATION: | Purple Palace |
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| TYPE: | |
| LOCATION: | On the anterior midline, level with the 2nd intercostal space |
| NEEDLE INSERTION: | 5° superior or inferior along midline |
| NEEDLE DEPTH: | 0.5-1.0 cun |
Conception Vessel 任脈
| TRANSLATION: | Magnificent Canopy |
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| TYPE: | |
| LOCATION: | On the anterior midline, at midpt of sternal angle, level with the 1st intercostal space |
| NEEDLE INSERTION: | 5° superior or inferior along midline |
| NEEDLE DEPTH: | 0.5-1.0 cun |
| TRANSLATION: | Jade Pivot |
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| TYPE: | |
| LOCATION: | On anterior midline, in center of manubrium, 1 cun below CV 22 |
| NEEDLE INSERTION: | 5° inferior along midline |
| NEEDLE DEPTH: | 0.5-1.0 cun |
| TRANSLATION: | Heavenly Projection |
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| TYPE: | Meeting point of the Conception Vessel and the Yin Linking Vessel channels; Window of the Sky point |
| LOCATION: | In the center of the suprasternal fossa |
| NEEDLE INSERTION: | a) 90° insertion, b) Needle 90° first, then inferiorly along sternum |
| NEEDLE DEPTH: | a) 0.2-0.3 cun, b) 0.2-0.3 cun first, then 0.5-1.0 cun |
| TRANSLATION: | Corner Spring |
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| TYPE: | Meeting point of the Conception Vessel and the Yin Linking Vessel channels |
| LOCATION: | Above Adam's apple, in depression of the upper border of the hyoid bone |
| NEEDLE INSERTION: | 45° insertion towards Du 20 |
| NEEDLE DEPTH: | 0.5-1.2 cun |
| TRANSLATION: | Fluid Container |
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| TYPE: | Meeting point of the Conception Vessel, Governing Vessel, Large Intestine, and Stomach channels; Ghost point |
| LOCATION: | In the depression in the center of the mentolabial groove |
| NEEDLE INSERTION: | a) 20° superior insertion, b) 5° insertion along lower lip to join ST 4 |
| NEEDLE DEPTH: | a) 0.2-0.3 cun |