Name
人中
- Ren Zhong
- Center of Man
水溝
- Shui Gou
- Water Channel
Location
Between the upper and middle third of the philtrum
Nature
- Crossing point with Large Intestine channel and Stomach channel
- One of the Ghost Points. Gui Gong 鬼宮 Palace of the Ghost
Actions
Communicates Yin and Yang of the body
- Emergency point: fainting, syncope, loss of consciousness.
- Distal point for acute lower back pain
- Local point: nasal obstruction, facial paralysis, pain of upper teeth
- For incessant speech or incoherent, delirious or inappropriate laughing and crying. Epilepsy. Manic disorders. Clears the mind.
Comments
- To purify the turbid experience of a relationship.
Treatment
- In case of fainting, stimulation by pressing with the fingernail to revive
- Needling: slightly angled upward, 0.3 cun