Name
大椎
- Da Zhui
- Great vertebra
- Great protuberance
Location
- Below C7
- Sometimes C7 is not the most prominent vertebra. To make sure you locate it correctly, touch the transverse processes of the neck and ask the person to turn their head from side to side. C7 moves while T1 does not.
Nature
- Crossing point of all Yang channels
- Points of the Four Seas Sea of Qi
Actions
- Major neck point. All problems, pain, neck stiffness, nape GV-14 + GB-20, BL-10
- Major point for the entire upper limb: motor problems (paralysis), pain, tingling: major point for cervicobrachial syndrome
- Eliminates external pathogens, especially Heat or Wind-Heat: GV-14 + LI-11 + LI-4 if there is fever. Bleed.
- Raise Yang in cases of exhaustion: in Wind-Cold attack with Moxa
- Tonifies in cases of exhaustion from overwork, fatigue, fibromyalgia, sweating with minimal effort, poor concentration, poor memory, tiredness + GV-4
- Effect on Blood and the immune system: increases white blood cells
- Hypertension, epilepsy, insomnia, epistaxis
Comments
- Relaxes the Sympathetic Nervous System.
- Moxibustion increases white blood cells, boosting the immune system (for people undergoing chemotherapy and radiation)
Treatment
- Needling: 0.3-1 CUN oblique. Bleed and scrape
- Moxa