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POINT: DU-20 (GOVERNING VESSEL-20)  

English: Hundred Meetings
Also Known As: Hundred Convergences
  • On the midline of the head, halfway between the frontal hairline and the vertex of the external occipital protuberance.
  • At the intersection of the median line at the vertex of the head with a line drawn from the tip of one ear to the other.
  • On the midline of the head, 5 cun above the midpoint of the anterior hairline, approximately on the midpoint of the line connecting the apexes of both ears.
  • At the vertex on the midline, in the depression 5 cun posterior to the anterior hairline and 7 cun superior to the posterior hairline. This point may also be measured as 8 cun posterior to the glabella and 6 cun superior to the external occipital protuberance.
  • At the vertex of the head, in a depression in the midline of the cranium on the line which joins the tip of one ear to the other. This point is 7 cun above the posterior hairline and 5 cun above the anterior hairline.
  • Transverse insertion either front to back or left to right, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention and pain.
  • Caution: extreme care should be taken when using the point on infants, whose fontanels have not completely closed or patients with hydrocephalus.
  • Puncture subcutaneously 0.3 to 0.5 inch.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Sea of Marrow point
  • Intersecting point of the Bladder channel with the DU channel
  • Meeting point of all the Yang channels
  • Meeting point of the Bladder, Gall Bladder, San Jiao and Liver channels
  • Benefits the brain
  • Benefits the sense organs
  • Nourishes the Sea of Marrow
  • Clears the brain
  • Calms the Shen
  • Revives consciousness
  • Spreads Liver Qi
  • Subdues Liver Yang
  • Extinguishes Liver Wind
  • Subdues Yang
  • Raises Yang
  • Dispels Wind
  • Tonifies Yang
  • Warms the Yang
  • Restores collapsed Yang
  • Stabilizes ascending Yang
  • Stabilizes the lower orifices
  • Counters prolapse
  • Regulates Qi
  • Tonifies Qi
  • Calms the fetus
  • Lifts the Spirit
  • Strengthens the ascending function of the Spleen
  • Promotes resuscitation
  • Stabilizes the ascending Yang
  • Seizures
  • Insanity
  • Hysteria with insomnia
  • Meningitis
  • Shock
  • Aphasia due to stroke
  • Insomnia
  • Hyperactivity
  • Disturbances of perception and movement
  • Sensation of heaviness of the head
  • Uncontrollable weeping
  • Forgetfulness
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Chronic diarrhea
  • Restless fetus disorder due to Qi Deficiency
  • Impotence
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Premature graying of hair
  • Gastric prolapse
  • Nasal congestion
  • Stroke
  • Vertigo
  • Aphasia due to apoplexy
  • Mental disorders
  • Loss of memory
  • Nervousness
  • Verbal delirium
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Head Wind
  • One-sided headache
  • Hypotension
  • Tetany
  • Fright palpitations
  • Disorientation
  • Much crying
  • Sadness and crying with a desire to die
  • Inability to taste food or drink
  • Heat in the body
  • Headache
  • Headache due to Wind with the sensation of a very heavy head
  • Psychosis
  • Uterus augmented in volume
  • Rectal prolapse in children
  • Epilepsy with trismus
  • Body arched backward
  • Speech raving and incoherent
  • Infantile epilepsy
  • Constipation
  • Anemia
  • Scatterbrained
  • Cerebral anemia
  • Debility of the nervous system
  • Sore throat
  • Dysentery
  • Irritability
  • Four limbs icy
  • Closed-type Windstroke
  • Hemiplegia
  • Hypertension
  • Dizziness
  • Wind dizziness
  • Parietal headache
  • Vertex headache
  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Lockjaw
  • Neck stiffness
  • Collapsing syndrome due to Deficiency
  • Abandoned-type coma
  • Fainting
  • Uterovaginal prolapse
  • Rectal prolapse
  • Infertility
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Hair loss
  • Prolapse of the Bladder
  • Anal prolapse
  • Madness
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Coma
  • Epilepsy
  • Eye dizziness
  • Anxiety
  • Vomiting with foam
  • Vomiting with abundant sweating
  • Protruding eyes
  • Blindness
  • Opisthotonos
  • Agitation and oppression of the Heart
  • Lack of mental vigor
  • Mania
  • Nasal discharge
  • Epistaxis
  • Redness of the face after alcohol consumption
  • Malaria
  • Headache with the sensation of a heavy brain
  • Mental illness
  • Blurred vision
  • Sudden apoplexy
  • Paralysis of the lingual muscles due to cerebral hemorrhage
  • Fear and groaning
  • Bleats like a sheep
  • Hypersalivation
  • Trembling with fear
  • Asthenia
  • "One hundred diseases"
  • Distracted
  • Syncope
  • Loss of sense of taste
  • Heart malaise
  • Palpitations
  • Wind symptoms in women before or after childbirth

DU-26
Renzhong
PC-6
Neiguan

DU-16
Fengfu
DU-14
Dazhui
LI-11
Quchi

M-HN-3
Yintang

M-HN-9
Taiyang

LI-4
Hegu

Promotes resuscitation

Shock

Type B infectious encephalitis

Headache

DU-1
Changqiang
UB-57
Chengshan

or

REN-15
Jiuwei
DU-1
Changqiang

REN-6
Qihai
M-CA-16
Weibao
ST-36
Zusanli

DU-22
Xinhui

or

GB-21
Jianjing
LI-2
Erjian
LI-3
Sanjian

KI-3
Taixi
KI-6
Zhaohai
ST-45
Lidui
UB-18
Ganshu

Anal prolapse

Uterine prolapse

Somnolence

DU-11
Shendao
SJ-10
Tianjing
SJ-2
Yemen

DU-18
Qiangjian
UB-6
Chengguang

PC-5
Jianshi
KI-7
Fuliu
KI-10
Yingu
ST-36
Zusanli

Fright palpitations

Agitation of the Heart

Mania

DU-26
Renzhong

UB-60
Kunlun
SJ-23
Sizhukong

GB-19
Naokong
UB-10
Tianzhu

or

GB-43
Xiaxi
DU-23
Shangxing
DU21
Qianding
SJ-5
Yanggu
LI-4
Hegu
SJ-1
Guanchong
UB-60
Kunlun

Tendency to excessive crying

Wind epilepsy

Upward staring eyes

Head Wind

DU-21
Qianding
DU-24
Shenting
DU-23
Shangxing
SJ-23
Sizhukong
GB-20
Fengchi
LI-4
Hegu
UB-2
Zanzhu
ST-8
Touwei

HT-5
Tongli
DU-19
Houding

DU-19
Houding
LI-4
Hegu

One-sided or generalized head Wind

Pain in the head and eyes

Pain in the head and nape

DU-26
Renzhong

ST-6
Jiache
REN-24
Chengjiang
LI-4
Hegu

LIV-3
Taichong
KI-6
Zhaohai
SP-6
Sanyinjiao

SI-19
Tinggong
GB-2
Tinghui
SJ-21
Ermen
UB-8
Luoque
LI-5
Yangxi
SI-2
Qiangu
SI-3
Houxi
SI-4
Wangu
SJ-3
Zhongzhu
SJ-2
Yemen
LI-1
Shangyang
UB-23
Shenshu

Lockjaw following Windstroke

Most types of acute throat pain (needle DU-20 Baihui first)

Tinnitus

DU-23
Shangxing
DU-22
Xinhui
UB-6
Chengguang

UB-9
Yuzhen
GB-15
Toulinqi
DU-23
Shangxing
Danyang
(0.5 cun posterior to GB-15 Toulinqi)

REN-15
Jiuwei

Obstruction of the nose with inability to distinguish the fragrant from the foul

Nasal congestion

Dysenteric disorder

Rectal prolapse in children (moxa DU-20 Baihui first)

DU-1
Changqiang
UB-25
Dachangshu

UB-25
Dachangshu

DU-1
Changqiang
GB-21
Jianjing
LI-4
Hegu

ST-30
Qichong

or

REN-8
Shenque
UB-28
Pangguangshu

M-UE-29
Erbai
UB-52
Zhishi
DU-1
Changqiang

Rectal prolapse in children

Rectal prolapse

Rectal prolapse with hemorrhoids

  • Do not use moxa if the patient suffers from high Blood pressure.
  • This point can tonify when a person is fragmented but not acute.
  • This point is considered to be the upper Dan Tian.
  • This point may be bled to treat severe Excess conditions.
  • It may be treated with moxibustion for Deficiency conditions.
  • It calms and relaxes.