Nervous Stomach Anxiety: yin/yang explanation
Why You get Nervous Stomach Anxiety and How to Handle It. Acupuncture has great ways to help.
Conception Vessel 19, Ren-19, Purple Palace, Zigong is the 19th acupuncture point on the Conception Vessel, which runs up the anterior middle of the torso between genitals and mouth.
On the sternum mid-line, at the level of the second inter-costal space.
Transversely upwards or downwards, just under the skin. Up to 1 cun. Obtaining deqi isn’t always easy, I find.
I haven’t used this point often enough to notice whether the sensation is anything other than purely local to the point.
Moxibustion: Up to 5 cones.
Although this point, together with Conception Vessel 18 and 20, each has a different name, they all do much the same, although perhaps their different names bestow important distinctions that I don’t always understand.
They are helpful where patients feel stuffy or tight-chested, or where something swallowed is causing local pain or won’t go down.
I’ve used Conception Vessel 19 to mainly to help clear a frequent sense of blockage when swallowing food. Whatever any underlying physical cause there may have been, the patient’s doctor couldn’t find it and wasn’t sufficiently concerned to recommend an X-Ray.
This point lies at the same level as Kidney 25 which I often use for stuffiness or discomfort in the chest causing breathing difficulties. Together they could make a powerful combination, perhaps with Lung 5 in case of cough, for instance. Still further over is Stomach 15 which is also used for many of the same problems.
Of these, I find Kidney 25 is usually the most tender when needed, and can be very effective in helping to clear a blocked chest where there is stagnation, for instance of Phlegm or Damp.
Ren-1 | Huiyin | Yin Meeting Place |
Ren-2 | Qugu | Crooked Bone |
Ren-3 | Zhongji | Utmost Middle |
Ren-4 | Guanyuan | Source Gate |
Ren-5 | Shimen | Stonegate |
Ren-6 | Qihai | Sea of Qi |
Ren-7 | Yin Jiao | Yin Intersection/td> |
Ren-8 | Shenque | Spirit Palace Pathway |
Ren-9 | Shuifen | Water Separation |
Ren-10 | Xiawan | Lower Stomach Duct |
Ren-11 | Jianli | Earthing Within |
Ren-12 | Zhongwan | Utmost Middle |
Ren-13 | Shangwan | Upper Stomach Duct |
Ren-14 | Juque | Great Palace Gateway |
Ren-15 | Jiuwei | Dovetail |
Ren-16 | Zhongting | Central Hall |
Ren-17 | Shangzhong | Middle of the Chest |
Ren-18 | Yutang | Jade Hall |
Ren-19 | Zigong | Purple Palace |
Ren-20 | Huagai | Flower Covering |
Ren-21 | Xuanji | Jade Pearl |
Ren-22 | Tiantu | Heavenly Rushing |
Ren-23 | Lianquan | Clear Spring |
Ren-24 | Chengjiang | Fluid Container |
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