Heart Shu point
LOCATION: 1.5 cun lateral to T-5
FUNCTIONS: Calms the Heart & Spirit
Regulates the Blood & Qi
Benefits Zong Qi,, Clears Blood Heat, Clears Heart Fire, Clears Heat & Stabilizes Shen, Clears
Phlegm in the Heart, Invigorates Blood & Sedates Pain, Invigorates Collaterals, Moves Qi,
Nourishes Heart & Blood, Regulates Upper Jiao, Relaxes Chest, Stimulates the Brain,, Tonifies
Heart Qi
INDICATIONS:
absent-mindedness
atrial fibrillation
chest pain
chills & fever
coughing blood
hot palms & soles of feet
hysteria
intercostal neuralgia
irritability & depressed feeling in the chest & heart
neurasthenia
night sweats
psychosis
rheumatic heart disease
seizures
spermatorrhea
tachycardia
tidal fevers
vomiting without eating
NEEDLING: Obliquely 0.5-0.7 cun.
PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL USES: Any mental problems
Main point for insomnia
"The happy point" for people who don't have much joy in their lives
When the wishes of the Heart and brain aren't coordinated-- strengthens the Spirit and Will.
Classics: for someone who imagines the presence of demons
Maciocia: moxa for depression
POINT COMBINATIONS: With Ht 7 for hysterical anxiety
ANCIENT USES:
OTHER:
adjunct point for epilepsy
CAM: forgetfulness, panic, irritability
Maciocia: more for excess than deficiency
J.C. Darrus:
palpitation, cardiac cough
