Vital Region Shu
膏肓俞
Gaohuangshu
Moxa generally applied to this point
Ht: I need to live up to other people’s expectations in order to be loved, I am myself and am loved, I hate my life. Ki: I am in control of my fear. I am safe/unsafe. St: I am content & in control, I need to live up to other people’s expectations, I am frustrated by others, other people disappoint me. Sp: Worried about what people think of me.
All kinds of deficiency, lung deficiency, extreme exhaustion, cough, asthma, coughing blood, night sweating, spontaneous sweating, consumption, extreme weight loss, poor memory, pounding of the heart, insomnia, mania, seminal emission, impotence, feebleness and deficiency of the spleen and stomach, undigested food in the stool, oesophageal constriction, weariness of the four limbs, vomiting blood, visual dizziness, dizziness, phlegm disease, pain of the back and shoulder
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.