Name
大包
- Da Bao
- Great Envelope
- Great Enveloping
Location
6th intercostal space, on the axillary line.
Nature
Connecting (Luo) Point, Great Connecting Channel of the Spleen: controls all Connecting channels of Yin and Yang Channels
Actions
- Great Connecting channel in fullness: generalized body pain, chronic pain. Fibromyalgia
- Great Connecting channel in emptiness: weakness of the joints
- Treats rib pain (intercostal, sprain etc.). Palpate the point to see if it is tender: if tender, then needle
Comments
Invigorates the blood, eliminates blood stasis.
Treatment
- Needling: 0.5 CUN transversely following the curve of the rib
- Moxibustion