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point
Kd-9: IV-9: zhu bin
acupuncture
definition
zhu bin = building for the guest; house guest
Entry point and Xi Cleft Accumulation point of the Yin Wei Mai (Yin Linking Vessel)
location: 5 cun above Tai Xi (Kd-3), on the lower edge of the soleus (gastrocnemius), on the line between Tai Xi (Kd-3) and Yin Gu (Kd-10).
actions: pacifies the Shen; opens the chest; sedates fright; relieves anxiety and emotional tension of Kidney origin (Maciocia, p. 253); dissipates Heat from the Heart; facilitates lactation; strengthens Yuan (Original) Qi; dissolves Phlegm; regulates the Yin Wei Mai (Yin Linking Vessel); warms the Kidney; tonifies Kidney Qi, Kidney Yin and Jing (Essence); strengthens the fetus and eliminates hereditary dysfunction
special action: Stimulation of this point at the end of the third and sixth month of pregnancy has traditionally been reputed to strengthen the fetus so that the child will be especially healthy, strong, vital and resistant to illness. (Soulie de Morant per Mann, p. 46) Moxa is usually employed in this tonification process.
indications: anger; psychosis; mania; seizures; person whose tongue is swollen and may stick it out suddenly and vomit mucus (Mann, p. 46); insufficient lactation; pregnancy; toxemia of pregnancy with spasm of the lower abdominal muscles (Mann, p. 46); umbilical hernia in infants; colic; orchitis; pelvic inflammatory disease; nephritis, cystitis; weakness in the legs; spasm of the calf, esp. gastrocnemius muscle; pain of medial aspect of the leg; foot pain
needle technique: perpendicular insertion, 0.8 - 1.0 cun, producing a sensation of soreness and numbness spreading upward to the thigh and downward to bottom of foot
moxa: 3 - 5 cones of direct moxa; 3 cones of direct moxa at the end of the 3rd and 6th months strengthens the fetus; 5 - 10 minutes of indirect moxa with a pole
combinations:
» with bleeding of UB-54/40 to treat food and drug toxicity (Ellis, et al, 1988, p. 253);
» with Ht-3 for foamy vomiting (Shanghai, p. 294);
» with UB-23, Kd-7 and Sp-6 for nephritis (Shanghai, p. 294);
» with CV-3, St-29, UB-58 and Kd-7 for urinary tract infection (Shanghai, p. 294).
footnotes
Reprinted from The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, Giovanni, p. 253, 1989, by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone, a division of Elsevier Limited.