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POINT: HT-6 (HEART-6)  

NAME: YINXI

English: Yin Cleft
Also Known As: Yin Accumulation
Yin Mound
Yin Reserve
Yin's Crevice

LOCATION:

  • When the palm faces upward, the point is on the radial side of the tendon of the m. flexor carpi ulnaris, 0.5 cun above the transverse of the wrist.
  • Located 0.5 cun proximal to HT-7 Shenmen, on the line connecting HT-7 Shenmen to HT-4 Lingdao.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Straight insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Perpendicular insertion, 0.3 to 0.5 cun, or oblique proximal or distal insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Xi-Cleft (Accumulation) point

ACTIONS:

  • Nourishes Heart Yin
  • Regulates Heart Blood
  • Clears Heat
  • Stops sweating
  • Calms the Shen
  • Clears Heart Fire
  • Moderates acute conditions
  • Clears Deficiency fire

INDICATIONS:

  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth
  • Insomnia
  • Mental restlessness
  • Cardiac pain
  • Hemoptysis
  • Epistaxis
  • Sudden loss of voice
  • Stiffness and pain along the Heart channel due to Stagnant Heart Blood
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Sudden chest pain
  • Aphasia
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis with night sweats due to Yin Deficiency
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Trembling with fear
  • Stomach hemorrhage
  • Leukorrhea
  • Chills
  • Profuse perspiration with fear of Cold
  • Sudden atony of the tongue
  • Fullness in the chest
  • Counterflow inversion fright Qi
  • Sudden turmoil disorder with cardiac pain
  • Sinusitis
  • Blocked nose
  • Hysteria
  • Shock
  • Alarm
  • Fear
  • Anxiety
  • Palpitations
  • Dizziness
  • Headaches
  • Chest pain
  • Sudden dumbness
  • Edema
  • Fright
  • Grief
  • Sudden irritability and rage
  • Bone steaming fever
  • Uterine inflammation
  • Brachial neuralgia
  • Disorders of Qi
  • Vertigo
  • Cholera with contractures
  • Unbearable stabbing pain of the Heart
  • Epilepsy
  • Hematemesis

COMBINATIONS:

KI-7
Fuliu

SI-3
Houxi

PC-5
Jianshi
LI-2
Erjian
ST-45
Lidui

Night sweats due to Heart Yin Deficiency

Profuse night sweating

Excessive fright

PC-9
Zhongchong

LIV-2
Xingjian

 

Heart pain with fullness and agitation and a stiff tongue

Heart pain

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This point has a strong influence on the mental state.
  • It revitalizes Qi.
  • This is a special point for night sweats.