CV6
Qihai(CV6,气海) is an acupuncture point in the meridian named Conception Vessel. It is the yuan-source point of Huang.
Location
On the anterior midline of the lower abdomen, 1.5 cun below the umbilicus.
Indication
- ①Collapse, thin, weak physique and constitution, zang-qi exhaustion;
- ②periumbilical pain, diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, and other diseases of intestine;
- ③dysuria, enuresis, nocturnal emissions, impotence, hernia;
- ④irregular menstruation, amenorrhea,metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, prolapse of uterus, post-partum (puerperal) lochiorrhea, retention of afterbirth (lochiometra).
Method
Perpendicular insertion 1-1.5 cun. Moxibustion is always applied. Contraindicated during pregnancy.