Acupoint+CV-13+(Shan+Guan)

    **Shan Guan** **• ** **Conception Vessel** **13** **• **  //Upper Venter.// Meeting Point with the Stomach and Small Intestine Channels. = = =Location= On the midline of the abdomen, 5 cun above the umbilicus.

=Point Summary= //Harmonizes The Stomach Regulates the Heart Alleviates Vomiting Regulates Qi Regulates the Middle Burner Harmonizes the Stomach, Spleen and Intestines Transforms Phlegm// //Regulates The Upper Burner// //Lowers Rebellion//

Needling:
0.5 - 1.2 cun; Puncture Perpendicularly

Contraindications:
Caution during pregnancy

Special Notes
classically in indicated for more excess than CV-12; clinically CV-12 is used for all; used to clear heat because it is the meeting point of the yang ming channel //Point of Weihe//: Ipeca

=Diagnostic Indications:= Abdominal Distention ** • ** Abdominal Masses ** • ** Borborygmus ** • ** Cardiac Pain ** • ** Fever Without Sweating ** • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gastrointestinal Disorders **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Indigestion **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jaundice **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nausea **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seizures **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stomach Dilated **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stomach Pain **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stomach Spasms **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vomiting **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • **

=Soulie De Morant Indications= Tonifies the conception vessel: the right point tonifies the right, ascending flow of the conception vessel and the left, descending flow of the governor vessel; the left point tonifies the left, descending flow of the conception vessel and the right, ascending flow of the governor vessel; Temporal parietal lobes, stomach, large intestine, upper limb (large intestine meridian), lower limb (stomach meridian). Disperses the heart. Dispersing acts in the opposite way. Agitation and weakness of the mind, acts with haste and precipitation, sadness. All types of vomiting: from worms, from pregnancy, from cholera; of blood from ulcers or tuberculosis, etc. Diaphragm: spasms. Headache with nausea; menses with nausea. Worms (particularly stomach); nausea, saliva, vomiting, mucus, or dry cough, or pain in the heart, or pain in the spleen or pancreas. Tonic convulsions, stiff, from worms or from any type of poison; epilepsy from shock? or from spleen-panreas problems? Stomach: dilated: painful gas in the entire epigastrium (aerogastria). Intestines: spasms, chronic inflammation; peritonitis. Heart: pain from food, agitation and heat in the heart? Cannot eat without trouble; illnesses with fever: disperse then tonify?
 * When tonified**:
 * Direct Effects:**