13 CV05 Shimen Stone Gate 石門
CV5 Shimen
Stone Gate

石門穴

LOCATION

2 cun below the umbilicus, on the anterior midline.

Features

Front-mu point of Triple Energizer Meridian.

Body Inches (cun)

Each person has his/her own personal body inches.
One cun is equal to the width of the Knuckle of the thumb.

Nerves, vascular

The anterior skin branch of the eleventh intercostal nerve, the superficial artery and vein branches of the abdominal wall, and the branches of the artery and vein under the abdominal wall.

Indication

Difficulty in urination,undigested diarrhea,abdominal cramps,scrotum into the abdomen,qi strangury,discredited,postpartum,retracted testicles,kidney amassment (running piglet),swelling,edema,coughing up of blood hemoptysis,indigestion,enteritis,uterus meningitis. Generally, useful for patterns of excess involving the lower abdomen a/or urinary tracts.  Not used as often as other CV points. Mentioned classically to both cause and treat infertility, although the cause may merely be incorrect needling which is specifically mentioned.  Modern texts have largely ignored these cautions. Useful for lower abdominal pain of an excess nature, genital pain/itching, shan disorders, hernia. Diarrhea, undigested food in stools, poor appetite, abdominal pain, edema.
Good point for hernia and for male disorders. During ancient time, this point was forbidden to puncture to young women of child bearing age, as it may cause infertility.

Combinations

Cough with dypnea,excessive saLRation:KI 26 & 2CV 05.
Lower abdominal pain:CV 05 & SP 05.
abdominal distension,ascites,urinary retention:CV 05 & BL 22 (Shu-Mu acupoints).
Bowel incontinence,bowelabdominal pain:CV 05 & BL 25.
Metrorrhagia:CV 05 & CV 06.
Hernia,abdominal distension,irregular Menstruation:CV 05 & ST 29.

穴位

位於腹正中線,臍下2寸。

特點

三焦的募穴。

同身寸

針灸取穴比量法。出自《千金要方》。

是指以患者本人體表的某些部位折定分寸,

作为量取穴位的長度單位。

穴區神經血管

第十一肋間神經前皮支,腹壁淺動、靜脈分支和腹壁下動、靜脈分支。

適應症

小便不利,洩利,小腹絞痛,陰囊入小腹,氣淋,血淋,產後惡露不下止,陰縮入腹,奔豚,水腫,嘔吐血,食穀不化,腸炎,子宮內膜炎。

穴位配伍療法

咳逆上氣、涎出多唾:1.彧中 2石門
少腹堅痛,下引陰中:1.石門 2.商丘
腹脹,腹水,癃閉:1.石門 2.三焦俞(俞募配伍法)
大便不禁,腸鳴腹痛:1.石門 2.大腸俞
月經崩漏:1.石門 2.氣海
疝氣,少腹脹滿,月經不調:1.石門 2.歸來