SI 3 Acupuncture Point is called as hòu xī. Hou means Back. Xi means brook. This point lies in the brook like depression at the back of the 5th metacarpophalangeal joint.
SI 3 Acupuncture Point Location
In the depression proximal to the head of the fifth metacarpal bone, at the junction of the dorsal and palmar surfaces. Needle perpendicularly 0.5 – 0.7 cun
Ulnar border of hand, proximal to head of 5th metacarpal bone
SI 3 Acupuncture Point Names
Small Intestine 3 Back Ravine
hòu xī 後谿
Speciality
- Shu Stream Point on the Small Intestine Channel
- Wood Point on Fire Meridian
- Back Stream
- Shu-Stream (Wood) Point
- Master Point of Du Channel
Caution
Functions
- Benefits occiput, neck, and back
- Regulates Du Mai
- Calms shen and treats epilepsy
- Clears wind and heat, benefits sensory orifices
- ACAP
Indication
- Headache
- Neck Rigidity
- Congestion of the Eye
- Deafness
- Contracture and twitching of the elbow, arm, fingers
- Febrile Diseases
- Epilepsy
- Malaria
- Night Sweating
- stiffness and pain in the neck, difficulty turning the head, headache
- epilepsy, mania-depression, hemiplegia
- malaria, night sweats, febrile diseases without sweating, jaundice, dark scanty urine
- deafness, tinnitus, red and painful eyes, swelling of the eyes with tearing, swelling of the cheeks, loss of voice with wind-stroke
Diseases
Arm pain, headache, lumbar pain, neck pain and stiffness and shoulder pain.
Discomfort
Area of Protection
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