LOCATION
Midway between the tip of the coccyx bone and the anus.
Features
Connecting point.
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
Posterior branch of coccyx nerve, anal nerve, anal artery and vein branch.
Indication
Hemorrhoids,hematochezia,throughflux diarrhea,constipation,difficulty in urination,genitalia wet and itch,last sacral pain,epilepsy,hysteria,lumbar neuralgia.Main point for hemorrhoids from excess or deficiency, anal prolapse, analfissure; otherr hemorrhoid points: UB 25, UB 30, UB 32, UB 35, UB 57, Erbai.Diarrhea with or without blood in the stools, constipation.Important point for genitourinary disorders, for the five types of painful urinary disorder (Five Lin), urinary retention, sexual exhaustion, impotence, seminal emission.Main point for disorders of the coccyx. Injuries to the coccyx will generally cause the tip of the coccyx to point more ventrally, to deviate to one side, or both, affecting the energetics of the spine and the whole body.A strong descending action on spirit disorders – epilepsy, manic depression.
Combinations
Back pain:GV 01 & GV 12.
Colicky:GV 01 & LR 01.
Constipation,difficulty in urination,stranguria:GV 01 & BL 27.
Hemorrhoids,constipation:GV 01 & BL 57.
Prolapse of the anus,dizziness:GV 01 & GV 20.
穴位
在尾骨端下,當尾骨端與肛門連線的中點處。
特點
督脈之絡穴。
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
尾骨神經後支,肛門神經,肛門動、靜脈分支。
適應症
痔疾,便血,洞瀉,大小便難,陰部濕癢,尾骶骨疼痛,癲癇,癔病,腰神經痛。
穴位配伍療法
脊背疼痛:1.長強 2.身柱
小腸氣痛:1.長強 2.大敦
大小便難,淋症:1.長強 2.小腸俞
痔疾,便結:1.長強 2.承山
脫肛,頭昏:1.長強 2.百會