Name

水道

• Shui Dao
• Water Pathway
• Route or Course of Water

Location

2 cun outside the midline, 3 cun below the umbilicus

Actions

If Stomach-Qi does not descend, the Lower Burner has Cold, which promotes stagnation: lower abdominal swelling, genital area pain. Cold Uterus: cysts, fibroids. Prostatitis.

• Helps the transformation of Water of the Bladder: facilitates urination, regulates fluid retention and edema. See: Empty-Cold in Bladder.
• Action on the uterus: infertility, ovarian pain, dysmenorrhea.

Comments

DO NOT TREAT CYSTITIS with ST-28 because it is Heat! See: Damp-Heat in Bladder

Treatment

• Needling: 0.3-0.5 cun. Recommend the patient to urinate before treating this point.
• Moxibustion