Name
中極
- Zhong Ji
- Extremity of the center
- The highest center
Location
4 CUN below the umbilicus, 1 CUN above the pubic symphysis. At the same height, to the side, at 0.5 CUN is KI-12 and at 2 CUN ST-29
Nature
- Front-Mu point of Bladder
- Point of crossing of the three Yin of foot: Spleen, Liver and Kidney
- Meeting point of the foot Yin muscle channels
Actions
- Being a Mu point treats Bladder problems, especially Full-Heat pathologies: cystitis, dark and frequent urine, burning on urination, polyuria, nocturnal enuresis, incontinence etc. See: Damp-Heat in Bladder
- Eliminates Damp-Heat from the Lower Burner: genital infection, itching, prostatitis, spermatorrhea
- Major gynecological point: amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhea, infertility, metrorrhagia, uterine bleeding
- With moxibustion warms the uterus and calms pain from Cold
- Accumulations of Yin, masses in the lower abdomen, lower back soreness
Treatment
- Needling: 1 CUN perpendicular, depending on the size of the abdomen
- Moxibustion