Name

巨闕

• Ju Que
• Que (palace): Giant palace
• The great door of the palace of feelings
• The Great Barrier

Location

6 CUN above the umbilicus.

Nature

• Front-Mu Point of Heart

Actions

• Calms the Shen. Heart palpitations: anxiety, restlessness, nervousness, where anguish is felt: CV-14 + PC-6. Especially in excess pathologies, anger, inability to forgive, agitation, urge to shout. Psychological disorder.
• Eliminates phlegm in the thorax: chest oppression, mucosidad, pain, difficulty breathing
• Substernal pain, stabbing pain in the chest or back
• Palpitations, tachycardia
• Helps calm Stomach: Heartburn, reflux, nausea, hiccough. See Excess of Fire in Heart and Stomach

Comments

Heart and Stomach have a mother-child relationship (fire and earth): if there is excessive Heart-Fire, it enters the Stomach (eating due to anxiety). See: Pathology of the Fire Element

Treatment

• Caution: be careful with the heart. Above all, do not puncture deeply and not towards the left or upwards.
• Puncture obliquely downwards: 0.5 - 1 CUN.

Interactions

• Cough: CV-17, ST-12
• Heart Phlegm: BL-15, ST-40
• Qi Obstruction in the Thorax: PC-4