Name
間使
- Jian Shi
- Intermediate Messenger
- Ambassador of the Heart
- Intuition
- Intention
Location
3 CUN above the wrist crease, between the two tendons of the palmaris major and palmaris minor muscles.
Nature
- Jing-River Point
- Metal Point
- It is one of the Ghost Points: Gui Cu, The Cave of the Ghost
Functions
- Treats any heart disease since it communicates with the Heart Channel
- Eliminates Phlegm, Heat of the Heart that obstructs the Mind: Manic agitation and withdrawal (Dian Kuang)
- Confused consciousness after Wind-stroke
- Loss of memory, Alzheimer's, senile dementia
- Anxiety: sensation that the heart rises up, fear (as if on a roller coaster)
- Oppression of the chest, globus hystericus
- Irregular menstruation, painful, with clots, haemorrhage
- Settles and calms the Spirit. Epilepsy, mania, delusions, hallucinations.
- Treats salivation or vomiting of foam after convulsions and the plum-pit syndrome (stagnation of Qi and Phlegm) that worsens or improves according to emotional state.
Comments
- Communicates with the Heart Channel. Regulates Heart-Qi
- Dissolves Phlegm, clears the chest
- Calms the Shen
Treatment
- Needling: 0.3 CUN