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POINT: DU-11 (GOVERNING VESSEL-11)

English: Spirit Pathway
Also Known As: Mind Way
Spirit's Path
Spiritual Way
Spirit Path
  • Located inferior to the spinous process of the fifth thoracic vertebra, on the posterior midline (five intervertebral spaces below C7).
  • Puncture obliquely upward 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Slanted insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Caution: the spinal canal lies 1.25 to 1.75 cun deep to the skin surface, varying according to body build.
  • Regulates the Heart
  • Calms the Shen
  • Relaxes the chest
  • Tonifies the Heart and Lungs
  • Clears Heat
  • Pacifies Wind
  • Asthma
  • Cough
  • Chest and hypochondriac pain
  • Anxiety and palpitations due to fear
  • Neurasthenia
  • Aphasia due to windstroke
  • Forgetfulness
  • Insomnia
  • Sadness
  • Disorientation
  • timidity with shortness of breath
  • Lack of Qi
  • Taxation consumption
  • Fever due to injury by Cold with a headache that comes and goes
  • Heat in the body
  • Dizziness
  • Heat in the Liver
  • Hot dyspnea
  • Fever and chills
  • Tetany
  • Difficulty closing the mouth due to spasm
  • Poor memory
  • Pain and stiffness of the back
  • Cardiac pain
  • First aid for mad dog bites
  • Fever
  • Malaria
  • heart disease
  • Seizures
  • Intercostal neuralgia
  • childhood Wind epilepsy
  • Clonic spasm
  • Childhood fright Wind
  • Lockjaw
  • Pain and Cold sensations of the upper back

KI-21
Youmen
LU-7
Lieque
UB-43
Gaohuangshu

UB-15
Xinshu
SJ-10
Tianjing

SJ-2
Yemen

SJ-10
Tianjing
DU-20
Baihui

Poor memory

Sadness

Anxiety

Disorientation

Fright palpitations

UB-15
Xinshu

REN-4
Guanyuan

 

Frequent attacks of Wind epilepsy

Heat in the body with a headache that comes and goes

 

  • Some classical texts forbid needling this point.
  • This point's actions mostly used for Excess patterns of the Heart.
  • Using moxa on this point strengthens the Heart.
  • This point is located at the same level as UB-15 Xinshu and UB-44 Shentang.