HT-8

HT-8

Punto C 8

Name

少府

  • Shao Fu
  • Palace of the Heart
  • Minor Workshop

Location

In the palm of the hand, in the inferior palmar crease, between the 4th and 5th metacarpal bones. When you close your hand, the point where the tip of the little finger touches the palm.

Nature

Actions

  • Tonifies Heart-Qi: Improves Heart function, Heart diseases (red cheekbones) (+PC)
  • Drains Heart-Fire: Nervousness, anxiety, early-hour insomnia, fears, fear of people, embarrassment, poor concentration.
  • Red eyes, nosebleed, blood surging upward, headache, neck pain
  • Hot palms
  • Shoulder and chest pain
  • Local point: hand stiffness, difficult to open
  • Pain and itching in genital areas: HT-8 + LR-8
  • Regulates the Uterus and elevates Sinking Qi

Comments

  • Calms the Shen
  • Disperses Heart-Fire and Phlegm-Fire of the Heart

Treatment

  • Needling: 0.2 CUN

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