Meaning

"The heart spirit in the Heart channel of Hand Shao Yin."

Localization

On the palm, in the depression between the 4th and 5th metacarpal bones, where the tip of the little finger rests when a fist is made. When a fist is made, the point is where the tip of the little finger rests.

Functions

Calms heart, cleans heart heat.

Indications

- Localized diseases: wrist pain, phantom pains, heat and sweating of the palms, pathology of the little finger and ring fingers.
- Channel diseases: convulsions in the forearm and elbow joint, twitching the fingers of the hand.
- 5 holes diseases: dry sore throat, nasal polyps, nosebleeds.
- Urinary system: enuresis, delay or uracrasia (the heart heat passes to the small intestine).
- Cardiovascular system: heart pain, heartbeat with pain and feeling of fullness in the chest with anxiety, feeling of lack of air.
- Reproductive system: metrorrhagia, menorragia, itching vaginal pain, neurogenic itch of the vagina and the penis.
- Disorders of the mind: timidity with mild whining, vegetative-vascular dystonia, hysteria, anxiety, fear of people, a sense of impending disaster.
- Features: heat and sweating of the palms, incipience appendicitis, malarial chills.

Needling Method

Puncture perpendicularly 0.3 - 0.5 cun. Cauterization.