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POINT: ST-44 (STOMACH-44)  

NAME: NEITING

English: Inner Courtyard
Also Known As: Inner Yard
Inner Court

LOCATION:

  • Proximal to the web margin between the second and third toes, in the depression distal and lateral to the second metatarsal joint.
  • At the proximal end of the web between the second and third toes.
  • On the dorsum of the foot, between the second and third toes, 0.5 cun proximal to the margin of the web.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Slanted insertion toward the ankle, 0.3 to 0.8 cun, causing local distention and soreness.
  • Perpendicular insertion 0.5 cun,
  • Oblique insertion directed proximally, 0.5 to 1 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Ying-Spring point
  • Water point
  • Ma Dan Ying Heavenly Star point

ACTIONS:

  • Clears Heat
  • Eliminates fullness
  • Regulates Qi
  • Harmonizes the Intestines
  • Clears Damp-Heat
  • Calms the Shen
  • Stops pain
  • Promotes digestion
  • Eliminates Wind from the face
  • Cools and drains Heat from the Stomach
  • Clears the Stomach
  • Relieves fullness in the Stomach
  • Removes obstruction for the Intestines

INDICATIONS:

  • Bleeding gums
  • Gingivitis
  • Pain along the Stomach channel
  • Pain in the lower jaw
  • Facial paralysis
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Lack of saliva
  • Lack of digestive juices
  • Constipation
  • Pharyngitis
  • People who cannot stand the human voice
  • Skin disorders
  • Weeping and dry eczema
  • Rashes
  • Facial edema
  • Nightmares of water
  • Febrile diseases
  • Acute and chronic enteritis
  • Epigastric pain
  • Hiccups
  • Abdominal pain and distention
  • Morning sickness
  • Urticaria
  • Lockjaw
  • Pain due to Intestinal hernia
  • Anorexia
  • Stomach ache
  • Inflammation of the upper gums
  • Cholera
  • Malaria with loss of appetite
  • Borborygmus
  • Contracture of the four limbs
  • Facial atony
  • Toothache pain of the lower teeth
  • Facial pain
  • Deviation of the mouth and eye
  • Throat Bi
  • Thirst
  • Depressive type disorders
  • Food Stagnation
  • A person who hates other people
  • Sensation of Cold in the limbs
  • Swelling in the limbs
  • Shivering
  • Pain or deviation of the mouth
  • Dental caries in the upper teeth
  • Cutaneous pain on the cranium
  • Epistaxis
  • Anhidrosis
  • Dysentery
  • Intermittent fevers
  • Hernia
  • Bell's palsy
  • Neuralgia
  • Toothache
  • Sore throat
  • Gastric pain
  • Acid regurgitation
  • Abdominal distention and pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Swelling and pain of the dorsum of the foot
  • Diaphragmatic spasms
  • Fever without sweating
  • Frontal headache
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Tonsillitis
  • Beriberi
  • Eye pain
  • Throat blockage
  • Tinnitus
  • Hematuria
  • Wind-rash
  • Skin of the head painful
  • Dreads noise
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Hot inversion
  • Pain of the skin of the chest
  • Frequent yawning
  • Vomiting

COMBINATIONS:

LI-4
Hegu

GB-41
Zulinqi

DU-23
Shangxing

Wind in the face, facial paralysis and trigeminal neuralgia

Toothache

Tonsillitis

Acupuncture analgesia for surgery

Lower abdominal distention

Eyeball pain

SJ-3
Zhongzhu
SJ-6
Zhigou

LI-4 (reinforce)
Hegu
KI-7 (reduce)
Fuliu
M-HN-30
Bailiao

LI-4 (reduce)
Hegu
Ki-7 (reinforce)
Fuliu
M-HN-30
Bailiao

Throat pain

Injury by Cold with absence of sweat (reduce ST-44)

Injury by Cold with sweating (reduce ST-44)

DU-26
Renzhong
LI-4
Hegu
DU-20
Baihui
REN-3
Zhongji
REN-6
Qihai

ST-25
Tianshu
SP-1
Yinbai
REN-6
Qihai
KI-6
Zhaohai
PC-6
Neiguan

ST-36
Zusanli

Loss of consciousness from Summerheat stroke

Red (bloody) dysenteric disorder

All types of diarrhea and abdominal disorders

ST-45
Lidui
ST-25
Tianshu

SP-4
Gongsun
 ST-45
Lidui

SP-6
Sanyinjiao
LIV-6
Zhongdu
LI-4
Hegu
LI-11
Quchi
SJ-3
 Zhongzhu
SJ-2
Yemen
LIV-2
Xingjian
SP-9
Yinlingquan

Undigested food in the stool

No pleasure in eating

Periumbilical pain

Chronic malaria with no pleasure in eating

Edema of the four limbs

GB-39
Xuanzhong

ST-41
Jiexi

 

Fullness and distention of the Heart and abdomen

Facial edema

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This is a very important point on the Stomach channel, for clearing Heat.
  • It is mostly used for Excess patterns.
  • This is probably the best point on the Stomach channel for abdominal disorders, especially when accompanied by pain and fear.
  • This is also a special point for Food Retention in the Stomach.
  • This point is good for true Heat with false Cold (warm body with cold limbs).