ST-1 Chengqi - Receive Tears
More Spirit Names: Containing Tears, Tear Container, Brimming Tears, Face Bone Hole, Mouse Hole, Ravine Hole
| English: | Container of Tears |
| Also Known As: | Containing Tears Contain Tears |
Location
- With the eyes looking straight forward, the point is directly below the pupil, between the eyeball and the infraorbital ridge.
- Located directly inferior to the pupil on the inferior ridge of the orbital cavity.
Needling
- Push the eyeball upward with the left thumb and puncture perpendicularly and slowly 0.5 to 1 cun along the infraorbital ridge. It is not advisable to manipulate the needle with large amplitude.
- Straight insertion. Ask the patient to look straight upward, then hold the eyeball secure from below with a finger, and slowly insert the the needle along the lower wall of the orbit to a depth of 1 to 1.5 cun. Sensation: local soreness and distention, occasionally some lachrymation.
- Caution: It is very common for this point to bleed a bit after needling. This can be stopped by applying pressure for a few moments after the needle is withdrawn. When there is bleeding, there may appear a "purpling" of the skin around the eye. A cold compress can be used first to stop the bleeding, followed by a hot compress. After a week, the purple should disappear. It will not affect the vision. Care should be taken not to insert the needle too deeply to avoid entering the cranial cavity.
- For myopia, the needle should be inserted transversely toward the inner canthus.
- Ask the patient to look directly forwards. Use a finger to push the eyeball upwards and insert the needle, first slightly inferiorly, then perpendicularly between the eyeball and the inferior wall of the orbit, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Caution: the needle should be inserted slowly without lifting, thrusting or rotating it.
Command Functions
- Intersecting point of the REN and Yang Qiao channels
Actions
- Expels Wind
- Brightens the eyes
- Stops lachrymation
- Clears Heat
Indications
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Combinations
| UB-1 | UB-1 joined by transverse insertion | N-HN-3 |
Optic nerve atrophy | Myopia | Retinitis pigmentosa |
ST-2 | UB-1 | UB-2 |
Deviation of the eye and mouth with inability to speak | Short-sightedness | Redness, swelling and pain of the eye |
Contraindications
- Moxibustion is contraindicated.
Notes
- This point is mostly used for eye problems.
- It is one of the two principle local points of the primary channels for treatment of eye diseases, the other being UB-1 Jingming.
Five Elements Spirit Perspective
| Spirit of the Point | Receive Tears is the first point on the Stomach, the great granary, which receives and holds whatever is taken in, in body, mind and spirit, and begins to break it down. The point's emphasis is less physical and more on the level of mind and spirit, helping the processing and digesting that enriches and enhances the spirit. Before anything can be transformed it must first be received, and this point, near the eye, helps someone acknowledge their distress, let in a new view and move on. At the source of the meridian, it lets a person take in and receive nourishment and may help flush out undigested material, physically and emotionally. The Stomach's role is to digest life and integrate what it brings. Emotional material that has not been digested weighs on us the way undigested food makes us feel heavy, and when the Stomach is compromised the Large Intestine may not be able to let it go, so the person never reaches grief over, for instance, a traumatic loss. Receiving the tears shows the stuck energy has shifted and the experience is being integrated. |
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| Worsley | Location: On the cheek at the orbit's lower border, just above the infra-orbital foramen, in line with the pupil centre when the eye looks straight ahead. |
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