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Chinese Name:
Dazhu (English translation: Great Shuttle)
Location:
On the back, 1.5 cun lateral to the lower
border of the spinous process of the 1st thoracic vertebra.
Classification:
Converging point of Bone
Crossing point of the Urinary Bladder and Small Intestine Meridians
Sea of Blood point
Indications:
- All types of bone disease (including pain in
the bone, joint pain in the shoulder, back, lumbar, sacrum and knee)
- Fever, cough, headache, nasal congestion
Functions:
Benefits the bones and joints, releases the exterior, dispels Wind, spreads and
descends Lung Qi, stops cough.
Needling: Oblique insertion .5 - .8 cun.

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