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POINT: UB-12 (URINARY BLADDER-12)  

English: Wind Gate
Also Known As: Wind Door
Wind's Door
Wind's Gate
  • 1.5 cun lateral to the DU channel, at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the second thoracic vertebra.
    Note: locate at the visible highest point of the paraspinal muscles.
  • Puncture obliquely 0.5 to 0.7 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Oblique insertion towards the spine0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Transverse-oblique insertion 1 to 1.5 cun.
  • Caution: perpendicular insertion or oblique insertion away from the spine carries a substantial risk of pneumothorax.
  • Straight insertion slanted slightly toward the spine1 to 1.5 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness, sometimes extending between the ribs.
  • Transverse insertion pointed downward along the muscle, 1 to 2 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness.
  • Caution: care should be taken not to insert the needle too deeply, to avoid puncturing the Lung.
  • Meeting point of the DU channel with the Bladder channel
  • Opens the Lungs
  • Disseminates and descends Lung Qi
  • Dispels Wind
  • Relaxes the Exterior
  • Expels and prevents Exterior Wind
  • Releases the Exterior
  • Stimulates the Lungs' dispersing function
  • Regulates Qi
  • Regulates the Ying and the Wei
  • Benefits the nose
  • Common cold
  • Cough
  • Fever
  • Headache
  • Neck rigidity
  • Backache
  • Cough
  • Cough with chest and back pain
  • Hemoptysis
  • Dyspnea
  • Heat in the chest
  • Wind-taxation coughing
  • Wind-exhaustion vomiting
  • Vomiting
  • Copious nasal discharge
  • Nasal congestion
  • Rhinitis
  • Epistaxis
  • Carbuncles of the back
  • Restless sleep
  • Pneumonia
  • Asthma
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis
  • Stuffy nose
  • Sneezing
  • Chills
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Attack by Wind with fever
  • Cold shivering
  • Injury by Cold with rigidity of the head and neck
  • Flaccidity of the interstices with frequent coughing and clear, watery nasal discharge
  • Flaccidity of the interstices with susceptibility to catching Wind-Cold
  • Desire to keep the eyes closed
  • Wind dizziness
  • Visual dizziness
  • Lumbar pain
  • Stiff neck
  • Urticaria
  • Shoulder pain
  • Bronchitis
  • Pleurisy
  • Belching
  • Whooping cough

DU-24
Shenting
UB-2
Zanzhu
LI-20
Yingxiang

LI-4
Hegu
UB-67
Zhiyin
KI-20
Futonggu

UB-5
Wuchu

GB-18
Chengling

GB-20
Fengchi
UB-45
Yixi
SI-3
Houxi

Rhinitis with clear nasal discharge

Constant sneezing

Epistaxis with stifled breathing

GB-21
Jianjing
SJ-3
Zhongju
SJ-6
Zhigou
SI-3
Houxi
SI-4
Wangu
UB-40
Weizhong

LI-4
Hegu
LIV-2
Xingjian
GB-39
Xuanzhong

DU-14
Dazhui
LI-4
Hegu

Pain of the shoulder and back

Injury by Cold with fever that clears and the reoccurs

Influenza

LI-11
Quchi
LU-7
Lieque
SP-10
Xuehai

UB-13
Feishu
LU-6
Kongzui

 

Urticaria

Pleurisy

 

  • This is the point to use at the very beginning stages of a Wind-Cold or Wind-Heat Attack.