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Hunmen BL-47 is level with Ganshu BL-18, the back-shu point of The Liver. It is indicated for fullness and distention of the chest and lateral costal region, contraction of the sinews, and bone and joint pain of the whole body. It can also regulate the middle jiao, treating disharmony of both the Spleen (diarrhoea, borborygmus)

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BL 47

Hunmen BL-47 is level with Ganshu BL-18, the back-shu point of The Liver. It is indicated for fullness and distention of the chest and lateral costal region, contraction of the sinews, and bone and joint pain of the whole body. It can also regulate the middle jiao, treating disharmony of both the Spleen (diarrhoea, borborygmus)

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L. Intestine CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS Stomach Bladder Channel Spleen Heart S.

Intestine HUNMEN BL-47

General Index Indications Index Point Names Index Glossary Points Index General General General Index Index Index Indications Indications Indications Index Index Index Point Point Point Names Names Names Index Index Index Glossary Glossary Glossary Points Points Points Index Index Index Index Index Names Index Points Index General Index Indications Indications Index Point Point Names Index Glossary Glossary Points Index General Previous Point Next Point Combinations Index Previous Previous Previous Point Point Point Next Next Next Point Point Point Combinations Combinations Combinations Index Index Index 1 See Notes Previous Point Point Combinations Index Previous Point Next Next Point Combinations Index

Gate Bladder of the Ethereal Soul Kidney LOCATION Pericardium


3 cunSanjiao lateral to the midline, level with the lower border of the spinous process of Gall Bladder the ninth thoracic vertebra (T9) and level with Ganshu BL18. Liver Conception Hunmen BL-47

Difficult ingestion, vomiting, diarrhoea, borborygmus, irregular defecation, dark urine.


COMMENTARY

Governing

Jinsuo DU-8

Extra Pointslower border of T9


Ganshu BL-18

Hunmen BL-47 is level with Ganshu BL-18, the back-shu point of the Liver. The Liver stores the ethereal soul (hun), but despite its striking name (Gate of the Ethereal Soul), psychological and emotional indications for this point are notable by their absence in major classical texts63. Hunmen BL-47 does, however, have some action on regulating the Liver qi and soothing the sinews, and is indicated for fullness and distention of the chest and lateral costal region, contraction of the sinews, and bone and joint pain of the whole body. It is also able to regulate the middle jiao, treating disharmony of both the Spleen (diarrhoea, borborygmus) and Stomach (difficult ingestion, vomiting). According to the Essential Questions64, the five outer Bladder points level with the five zang back-shu points (i.e. Pohu BL-42, Shentang BL-44, Hunmen BL-47, Yishe BL-49 and Zhishi BL-52) drain heat from the five zang, an action shared by the back-shu points of the five zang.
COMBINATIONS

Chest pain: Hunmen BL-47, Feishu BL-13, Yunmen LU-2, Zhongfu LU-1, Yinbai SP-1, Qimen LIV-14 and Daling P-7 (Thousand Ducat Formulas). Cold Stomach with difficulty in digesting food: Hunmen BL-47 and Weishu BL-21 (One Hundred Symptoms).

3 cun

LOCATION NOTE

When the shoulder is relaxed, the three cun line corresponds to the medial border of the scapula.
NEEDLING

Oblique insertion 0.3 to 0.5 cun. Caution: deep perpendicular or deep oblique needling in a medial direction carries a substantial risk of causing a pneumothorax.
ACTIONS

Spreads Liver qi and relaxes the sinews Harmonises the middle jiao
INDICATIONS

Fullness and distention of the chest and lateral costal region, back pain, contraction of the sinews, bone and joint pain of the whole body, corpse collapse walking disorder, aversion to wind and cold.

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