Name
胃俞
- Wei Shu
- Back Shu point of the Stomach
- Transport to offer to the Stomach
Location
Below D12, 1.5 CUN outside of Du Mai
Nature
Functions
- Regulate and tonify Stomach-Qi: gastric pain, vomiting, poor appetite, Dampness in the Middle Burner. See Stomach Syndromes
- If you eat a lot but lose weight, you are very thirsty and have abundant urination. The four "P"s of diabetes: polyphagia, polyuria, polydipsia and weight loss.
- Thin children, without muscle tone
- Regulates the digestive system, tonify the Post-Heaven: abdominal distension, pain BL-20 + 21 BL
Comments
Strengthens the Spleen and eliminates food accumulation
Treatment
- Needling: 0.3-0.8 CUN transverse
- Moxibustion