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POINT: UB-28 (URINARY BLADDER-28)  

English: Bladder Shu
Also Known As: Bladder's Hollow
  • 1.5 cun lateral to the midline at the level of the second posterior sacral foramen UB-32 Ciliao.
  • Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Straight insertion 1 to 1.5 cun. Sensation local distention and soreness, sometimes extending to the buttocks.
  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.8 to 1.2 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Back-Shu point of the Bladder
  • Regulates the Bladder
  • Clears Damp-Heat from the Lower Jiao
  • Dispels Stagnation
  • Resolves masses
  • Benefits the lumbar region and legs
  • Benefits the lumbar vertebrae
  • Resolves Dampness
  • Stops pain
  • Opens the water pathways in the Lower Jiao
  • Strengthens the loins
  • Difficult urination
  • Dark urination with unsmooth flow
  • Retention of urine
  • Enuresis
  • Turbid painful urinary dysfunction
  • Diarrhea
  • Diarrhea with abdominal pain
  • Difficult defecation
  • Constipation
  • Abdominal fullness
  • Abdominal masses in women
  • Wasting and thirsting disorder
  • Diminished Qi
  • Weakness of the leg and knee
  • Cold and contraction of the lower leg
  • Sciatica
  • Dysuria
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Prostatitis
  • Hematuria
  • Lower back, sacrum or sacroiliac pain and stiffness
  • Cold back and lower extremities
  • Lower urinary tract stones
  • Seminal emission
  • Swelling and pain of the External genitalia
  • General ulceration, swelling, damp-itching and pain of the vagina
  • Deficiency swelling of the penis
  • Stiffness and pain of the sacrum and coccyx
  • Stiffness and pain of the lumbar spine that radiates to the hypogastrium
  • Difficulty bending
  • Wind-taxation lumbar stiffness and pain
  • Stiffness and pain of the lower spine and buttock
  • Inability to sit for long
  • Atrophy disorder and heaviness of the leg
  • Numbness of the leg
  • Diabetes
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Urination with seminal discharge
  • Borborygmus

HT-5
Tongli
LIV-1
Dadun
SP-11
Jimen
LIV-3
Taichong
UB-40
Weizhong
HT-7
Shenmen

GB-12
Wangu
UB-27
Xiaochangshu
UB-30
Baihuanshu

or

KI-3
Taixi
KI-10
Yingu
UB-23
Shenshu
REN-6
Qihai

REN-4
Guanyuan

UB-20
Pishu

Enuresis

Dark urine

Spleen Deficiency with undigested food in the stool

Transforms fluids in the Lower Jiao and promotes diuresis

KI-18
Shiguan

REN-8
Shenque
DU-20
Baihui

UB-26
Guanyuanshu

Difficult defecation with abdominal pain

Rectal prolapse

Wind-taxation lumbar pain

UB-27
Xiaochangshu
UB-40
Weizhong
DU-2
Yaoshu
KI-1
Yongchuan

UB-23
Shenshu
SP-9
Yinlingquan
SP-6
Sanyinjiao

UB-23
Shenshu
REN-2
Qugu
SP-6
Sanyinjiao

Stiffness and pain of the lumbar region

Urinary tract infection

Prostatitis

UB-23
Shenshu
SP-9
Yinlingquan

UB-23
Shenshu

 

Expels renal stones

Strengthens the lower back

 

  • This point's principle action is to drain Damp-Heat from the Bladder and genital system.