Name
中 府
- Zhong Fu
- Central Palace
Location
In the first intercostal space, 6 CUN lateral to the midline, 1 CUN below LU-2. In the hollow below the clavicle.
Nature
- Front-Mu Point of the Lung (regulates, tonifies and disperses)
- Crossing Point of Tai Yin (Lung-Spleen)
Actions
- Diffuses and descends Lung-Qi. Relieves cough and wheezing.
- Cough with chest pain: pulmonary and bronchial diseases (with difficulty breathing deeply). Eliminates impure energy
- Attack of external pathogenic energy: Wind and Cold (normally affects the Bladder channel). Sensation of heat in the chest, mucus, difficulty breathing
- Transforms Phlegm, clears Heat and regulates the water passages.
- Goitre: a Phlegm problem that blocks Lung-Qi
- Abdominal distension, poor appetite, swelling of the four limbs (transforms the Spleen function)
- Descends Stomach-Qi
- Difficulty ingesting food, vomiting due to Heat in the Gall Bladder, retching and abdominal distension.
Comments
It has a great deal of concentrated energy, regulates the energy of the Lung (especially in acute pathological conditions of the Lung). In cases of excess: it disperses Lung-Heat and the sensation of chest oppression. Treats cough in cases of Phlegm accumulation.
Treatment
- Puncture: 0.5 – 0.8 CUN, obliquely transverse towards the outside of the shoulder
Interactions
P. Deadman: A Manual of Acupuncture
- Chest fullness with oesophageal constriction: BL-49
- Chest pain: LU-2, BL-13, LR-14, SP-1, BL-47 and LU-7
- Swelling of the face and abdomen: LU-5, LI-4
- Enuresis: ST-22, HT-7
- Abdominal fullness, shortness of breath: Use moxa CV-17, CV-8
- Difficult ingestion: BL-60, ST-20, LU-10, SP-20
- Oesophageal constriction, with difficulty ingesting food and vomiting: CV-16
Other sources