St-12

St-12

Forbidden in Pregnancy?
Element
English

Empty Basin

Name

缺盆

Transliteration

Quepen

Description

Meeting point with Large Intestine, Small Intestine, SJ and Gall Bladder channels

Indications
descending Lung qi heat in the chest St channel and pain
Kinesiology
breathing asthma
Channel Psychology

St: Over-thinking, weighing my needs against other’s needs. My needs are never satisfied. Giving more than receiving. Resentment.

Physical Conditions
Symptoms

Cough, coughing blood, short breath, fullness of the chest, heat and fullness in the chest, chills and fever with sweating, absence of sweating, oedema, throat painful obstruction, pain of the supraclavicular fossa, shoulder pain that radiates to the neck, numbness and painful obstruction of the upper limb, inability to raise the arm, lumbar pain with inability to turn.

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The point information was compiled from multiple sources including College of Complementary Medicine, Sydney Australia. Point location diagram recreated from A Manual of Acupuncture, P Deadman.