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SP-14 Fujie - Abdomen Knot

More Spirit Names: Abdominal Bind, Intestinal Bind, Abdomen Hole, Abdomen Bend, Abdomen Exit

English:	Abdomen Knot
Also Known As:

Location

1.3 cun below SP-15 Daheng, 4 cun lateral the the anterior midline on the lateral side of m. rectus abdominis.
On the lower abdomen1.3 cun inferior to SP-15 Daheng, 4 cun lateral the midline.
3 cun above SP-13 Fushe and 3.5 cun lateral to the median line of the abdomen.

Needling

Puncture perpendicularly0.5 to 1 cun.
Moxibustion is applicable.
Perpendicular insertion, 1 to 1.5 cun.
Caution: Deep needling on thin patients may penetrate the peritoneal cavity.

Command Functions

Actions

Warms and benefits the Lower Jiao
Regulates Qi
Descends rebellion

Indications

Tension
Qi Stagnation
Dysenteric disorder
Diarrhea due to a cold abdomen
Running Piglet
Heart pain

Cough
Pain around the umbilicus
Abdominal distention
Hernia
Diarrhea
Constipation

Combinations

LIV-2
Xingjian

Rushing Heart

Contraindications

Notes

This is a powerful point to resolve Qi Stagnation in the abdomen.

Five Elements Spirit Perspective

Spirit of the Point	Earth Causative Factors (CFs) hold all their issues and turmoil in their stomachs, with a sense of stuckness, and an abdomen knot can occur, a tightening up. This point helps move it. People have a worry or grievance of some kind that is sitting there, on the mental and spiritual level. It is a powerful point for tension and lack of flow. It helps untie the knot in mind and spirit and frees the person, as if taking them out of a mental and physical prison. Very few people who describe a knot in the stomach are knotted up physically; look to see whether they are knotted mentally or spiritually, with some unresolved problem lying there twisting their gut. Anger can show as 'venting your spleen': anger does not come only from Wood.
Worsley	Location: On the abdomen, 4 ACI from the midline and 1 ACI below the umbilicus level, beside REN-7. Needle depth: 7 fen Moxa: 5-15 cones
When to Consider	When the person has a worry or grievance of some kind sitting in the belly When issues and turmoil are held in the stomach and it tightens up into a knot When there is tension and lack of flow When someone is tying themselves up in knots, with anxiety and mental torment When there is a susceptibility to fright and sorrow When there is tightness, a knot or pain in the stomach with no physical cause, some trouble lying there twisting the gut, often an unresolved shock or something not yet dealt with After shocks that leave the person churning and knotted For anger that arises from the Spleen, when the person needs to vent their spleen
Combinations	SP-13 Official Residence with SP-14: for the person who has overextended themselves and is wrung out
Notes	A powerful point

From Class

SP-14 Fujie: Yin Wei point where what has been bound in the body can begin to release. (Lewis)
Yin Wei Mai — weaving the inner story: Unintegrated experiences are knots in the Yin Wei Mai's fabric; Yin Wei lets us gather what was left behind, addressing conditioning at odds with the Chong blueprint. (Lewis)

For educational reference only; not a substitute for care from a qualified practitioner.