SI 5 Acupuncture Point is called as yáng gǔ. Yang is Yang of Yin-Yang. Gu means Valley. Yang means the exterior. The seam on the exterior aspect of the wrist, where the point is located, is like a valley.
SI 5 Acupuncture Point Location
On the ulna side of the wrist, in a depression between the styloid process of the ulna and the triquetral and pisiform bones. Needle perpendicularly 0.3 – 0.5 cun.
Ulnar border of wrist, between head of ulna and triquetral bone
SI 5 Acupuncture Point Names
Small Intestine 5 Yang Valley
yáng gǔ 陽谷
Speciality
- Jing River Point on the Small Intestine Channel
- Fire Point on Fire Meridian
- Jing-River (Fire) Point
Caution
Functions
- Clears heat and reduces swelling
- Benefits ears and eyes
- Calms shen
Indication
- Swelling of the neck
- Swelling of the submandibular region
- Pain in the wrist
- Pain in the lateral aspect of the arm
- Febrile Diseases
- stiff neck, lockjaw, stiff tongue in babies, tongue thrusting, toothache (upper or lower jaw), tinnitus, deafness, red, swollen, and painful eyes
- mania, mad walking, febrile diseases without sweating
- pain in the wrist, hand, arm; painful hemorrhoids
Diseases
Arm, wrist and hand pain and neck swelling.
Discomfort
Area of Protection
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