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POINT: UB-19 (URINARY BLADDER-19)  

English: Gall Bladder Shu
Also Known As: Gall Bladder's Hollow
Gall Bladder Back Transporting Point
  • 1.5 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of the tenth thoracic vertebra.
    Note: locate at the highest visible point of the paraspinal muscles.
  • 1.5 cun lateral to DU-7 Zhongshu, level with the lower border of the spinous process of the tenth thoracic vertebra.
  • Oblique insertion towards the spine, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Transverse -oblique insertion 1 to 1.5 cun.
  • Caution: perpendicular needling or oblique needling away from the spine carries a substantial risk of causing a 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.
  • Puncture obliquely 0.5 to 0.8 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Back-Shu point
  • Clears Damp-Heat from the Liver and Gall Bladder
  • Cools and drains Heat from the Liver and Gall Bladder
  • Clears pathogenic factors from the Shao Yang
  • Tonifies and regulates Gall Bladder Qi
  • Tonifies Deficiency
  • Calms the Stomach
  • Regulates Qi
  • Expands the diaphragm
  • Jaundice
  • Yellow eyes
  • Bitter taste in the mouth with a dry tongue
  • Distention and pain of the chest and lateral costal region with inability to turn
  • Vomiting
  • Difficult ingestion
  • Dry retching
  • Cholecystitis
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Hepatitis
  • Headache and chills
  • Sore throat
  • Distention and fullness in the abdomen and chest
  • Pain in the flanks
  • Sperm in the urine
  • Myopia
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Optic nerve atrophy
  • Scrofula
  • Afternoon fever
  • Fright palpitations with restless sleep
  • Insomnia
  • Steaming bone fever
  • Deficiency-taxation tidal fever
  • Dryness and pain of the throat
  • Cold shivering with absence of sweating
  • Swelling of the axilla
  • Headache
  • Gastritis
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis
  • Round worms in the bile duct and Intestines
  • Tuberculosis of the lymph glands
  • Abdominal distention
  • Soreness of the chest and ribs
  • Sciatica
  • Swelling of the axillary lymph glands
  • Pleurisy
  • Pancreatitis
  • Dream-disturbed sleep
  • Intermittent fever and headache
  • Belching
  • Hiccup

UB-17
Geshu
(The Four Flowers)

UB-48
Yanggang

or

DU-17
Naohu
UB-49
Yishe
UB-48
Yanggang

LIV-13
Zhangmen

Steaming bone taxation-fever, deficiency taxation, tidal fever, etc.

Yellow eyes

Pain of the later costal region

REN-19
Zigong
REN-16
Zhongting

LI-1
Shangyang
UB-27
Xiaochangshu

UB-17
Geshu
UB-43
Gaohuangshu
M-BW-6
Huanmen

Difficult ingestion

Dry mouth and tongue with difficult ingestion

the hundred syndromes of Deficiency-taxation (use moxa on all points)

LI-5
Yangxi

GB-24
Riyue

DU-9
Zhiyang
ST-36
Zusanli
LIV-3
Taichong

Fright palpitations

Frequent indecision

Acute infectious hepatitis

GB-34
Yanglingquan
PC-6
Neiguan

M-LE-23
Dannangxue

LIV-13
Zhongmen

Round worms in the bile duct

Cholecystitis

Rib pain preventing sleep

  • This is an important point to clear Damp-Heat from the Gall bladder and Liver.