dai/girdle vessel

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    • originates in the region of Zhāngmén LIV-13,

    • circles round just below the hypochondriac region,

    • runs obliquely downwards through

    Dàimài GB-26, Wushü GB-27 and Wéidào GB-28, encircling the waist like a belt.

    Coalescent points: Dàimài GB-26, Wushu GB-27 and Weidào GB-28.

    Pathological symptoms of the Girdling vessel: Abdominal fullness, a sensation at the waist as though sitting in water, pain around the umbilicus, abdomen, waist and lumbar spine, red and white leucorrhoea, irregular menstruation, infertility, insufficient sperm, shan disorder.

    • directly below lv13 at the crossing point of a vertical line from the free end of the 11th rib and a horizontal line through the umbilicus (level ren8)

    • point name is dai mai. regulates the uterus, resolves damp heat in lower jiao. powerful gynecological point, irreg. menses, infertility, leucorrhea, uterine prolapse, hernia, hypochondriac pain, lumbar pain

    • perpendicular 0.5-0.8”

    • lateral side abdomen, anterior to the ASIS, 3 cun below the level of umbilicus

    • leucorrhea, lumbar pain, hernia, abdominal pain

    • perpendicular 0.5-1.0”

    • anterior and inferior to the ASIS, 0.5-cun anterior and inferior to gb27

    • rids stagnation, regulates dai mai. leucorrhea, hernia, uterine prolapse

    • perpendicular 0.5-1.0”