Bl-20

Forbidden in Pregnancy?

Channel

Bladder Bl

Element

Water

English

Spleen Shu

Name

脾俞

Transliteration

Pishu

Special Point

Key PointBack-Shu Point

Description

Back-Shu point of the Spleen

Indications

stomachdampnessbloodthe qi of the middle jiao (middle third of body)

Kinesiology

Key point for regulating gastric functionblood sugar regulationweight gain or lossdigestion

Channel Psychology

Sp: Worried about what people think of me. I need to be what people want me to be.

Point Psychology

childhood frightfeeling heavyweighed down

Physical Conditions

Blood Sugar Digestion Oedema Abdominal distention and pain Gastric function

Symptoms

Distension and pain of the abdomen, severe constipation, lack of appetite, remaining thin despite much eating, undigested food in the stools, diarrhoea, inflamed colon, chronic childhood fright, childhood nutritional impairment, jaundice, yellow body with abdominal fullness and vomiting, pain of the lateral costal region, blood in the stools, blood in the urine, vomiting blood, excessive menstrual bleeding, chronic haemorrhage, uterine prolapse, oedema, excessive sleep, anaemia and blood loss, blood sugar regulation, lassitude and heaviness of the body with no desire to move, no desire to move the four limbs, lumbar pain, pain of the shoulder and back, yawning, cough, skin pain, turbid white urine, clonic spasm

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.