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POINT: PC-9 (PERICARDIUM-9)  

English: Middle Rushing
Also Known As: Center Rushing
Pulse on the Middle Finger
Middle Pouring
Middle Assault
Rushing into the Middle
Balanced Friendliness
  • In the center of the tip of the middle finger,.
  • Sometimes located at the radial side of the middle finger, at the junction of the lines drawn along the radial border of the nail and the base of the nail, approximately 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail.
  • Perpendicular or oblique insertion 0.1 to 0.2 cun.
  • Prick to bleed.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Jing-Well point of the Pericardium channel
  • Wood point of the Pericardium channel
  • Tonification point of the Pericardium channel
  • Ting point
  • Clears Heat from the Pericardium
  • Revives consciousness
  • Clears the Heart
  • Pacifies the Heart
  • Clears Heart Fire
  • Clears Heat
  • Reduces fever
  • Benefits the tongue
  • Clears Summerheat
  • Expels Interior Wind
  • Restores collapsed Yang
  • Windstroke
  • Injury by Summerheat
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Fever
  • Fever with agitation and oppression
  • Heat in the body like fire
  • Headache
  • Hypertension
  • Vomiting and diarrhea
  • Epigastric pain
  • Childhood nutritional impairment
  • Angina pectoris
  • Cardiac pain with a sensation of fullness and irritability
  • Cardiac inflammation
  • Carditis
  • Infantile convulsions
  • Deafness
  • Stiffness, swelling and pain of the tongue
  • Aphasia with tongue stiffness
  • Sublingual sarcoma
  • High fever
  • Fever with no sweat
  • All Yang diseases with fever and chest malaise, without sweat
  • Vertigo
  • Fainting
  • Hypotension
  • Profuse sweating
  • People who have difficulty expressing themselves
  • Palpitations
  • Chest pain
  • Pain at the root of the tongue
  • Stiffness of the tongue
  • Inability to speak
  • Nighttime crying in children
  • Heart pain
  • Agitation of the Heart
  • Oppression of the Heart with absence of sweating
  • Heat of the palms
  • Tinnitus
  • Sudden turmoil disorder
  • Nervousness
  • Irritability
  • Apoplectic coma
  • Cerebral hemorrhage
  • Cerebral hyperemia
  • Cerebral congestion
  • Shock
  • Emergency care
  • Heat exhaustion
  • Heat stroke
  • Wind-Cold with headache, the body literally burning and very hot palms
  • Infantile parasitosis
  • Mental disorders
  • Acute diseases due to perverse Wind
  • Epileptic seizures
  • Arterial hypotension
  • Uncontrollable sexual habits, possibly with no affection
  • Swelling of the underside of the tongue
  • Gastric pain

DU-26
Renzhong
LI-4
Hegu

If ineffective

DU-15
Yamen
LIV-1
Dadun

REN-23
Liangquan

LU-11
Shaoshang

LU-10
Yuji
DU-15
Yamen
LI-2
Erjian
KI-10
Yingu
KI-2
Rangu

Loss of consciousness from Windstroke

Swelling and pain below the tongue

Stiffness of the tongue

HT-6
Yinxi

LIV-14
Qimen
DU-1
Changqiang
REN-22
Tiantu
LU-4
Xiabai

DU-4
Mingmen

Heart pain with fullness and agitation and a stiff tongue

Pain of the Heart with shortness of breath

Heat in the body like Fire and a splitting headache

  • This point is especially suitable for restoring consciousness.
  • Bleed for emergency treatment.