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POINT: KI-27 (KIDNEY-27)

English: Shu Mansion
Also Known As: Transport House
Storehouse
Transporting Point Mansion
Conveying Palace
Hollow Residence
  • In the depression on the lower border of the clavicle, 2 cun lateral to the anterior midline.
    Note: the 2 cun line is located halfway between the midline and the mammilary line.
  • 2 cun lateral to the REN channel, in the depression on the lower border of the clavicle.
  • 2 cun lateral to REN-21 Xuanji, in the depression beneath the inferior margin of the medial end of the clavicle.
  • Puncture obliquely 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Transverse insertion directed laterally along the inferior border of the clavicle 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Caution: deep perpendicular or oblique needling may puncture the Lung.
  • Slanted insertion 0.5 to 0.8 cun.
  • Stimulates the Kidneys' function of reception of Qi
  • Subdues Rebellious Qi
  • Stops cough and wheezing
  • Calms asthma
  • Resolves Phlegm
  • Unbinds the chest
  • Harmonizes the Stomach
  • Lowers Rebellious Qi
  • Cough
  • Asthma
  • Generalized sensation of Cold
  • Mental fatigue and disorientation
  • Anxiety and palpitations
  • Forgetfulness
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal distention
  • Inability to eat and drink
  • Steaming bone disorder
  • Chest pain
  • Chronic asthma
  • Bronchitis
  • Stifling sensation in the chest
  • Dyspnea
  • Headache due to mental stress
  • Chronic cough with vomiting of Phlegm
  • Wheezing
  • Oppression of the chest with chronic dyspnea
  • Reckless movement of Hot Blood in women

KI-24
Lingxu
KI-25
Shencang
REN-14
Juque

KI-25
Shencang
LU-3
Tianfu

ST-18
Rugen

Vomiting with fullness of the chest

Rebellious Qi with dyspnea and an inability to catch the breath

Coughing and wheezing with Phlegm

  • This point is said to be contraindicated during menstruation.
  • This is a good point to balance the corpus callosum to balance the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
  • This point is a storehouse of Spirit.
  • this is an important local point for the treatment of asthma from Kidney Deficiency.