Sundance Acupuncture

Herb & Acupuncture Database

(This is my own personal database of teachers, teachings and notes that I use in my practice. I’ve decided to share it freely with anyone who would like to reference it.)

ST-14 Kufang - Storehouse

More Spirit Names: Store Room

English:	Storehouse
Also Known As:	Storage Room

Location

In the first intercostal space, 4 cun lateral to the anterior midline.
On the chest, in the first intercostal space, 4 cun lateral to the midline, REN-20 Huagai, on the mamillary line.
Note: the intercostal space curves upward, so ST-14 Kufang will lie superior to REN-20 Huagai.

Needling

Puncture obliquely 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
Moxibustion is applicable.
Transverse-oblique insertion laterally or medially along the intercostal space 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
Transverse insertion superiorly or inferiorly along the channel.
Slanted insertion 0.5 to 0.8 cun.

Command Functions

Actions

Descends rebellious Qi
Unbinds the chest

Indications

A sensation of fullness and pain in the chest
Distention and fullness of the chest and lateral costal region
Intercostal neuralgia
Anorexia

Cough
Coughing of pus and Blood
Dyspnea
Bronchitis

Combinations

ST-15 Wuyi UB-43 Gaohuangshu
Cough

Contraindications

Notes

This is a key point for emotional problems.
It is usually needled on the left with a gold needle.
This is a wonderful point for anorexia.

Five Elements Spirit Perspective

Spirit of the Point	Storehouse is for taking in nourishment on a mental level. The Stomach is the great storehouse, and this point is a place of reserves for all that nourishes body, mind and spirit, to be called on when running on empty. For an anorexic it is a wonderful point: perhaps there is a single thing in the larder they can manage to take in. It is a storehouse for the mind as well, for memory and the subconscious, like taking someone to the larder or pantry and letting them choose what they want or need.
Worsley	Location: In the 1st intercostal space, 4 ACI from the midline, on the paramedian nipple line. Needle depth: 3 fen Moxa: 5 cones
When to Consider	When a person needs to take in nourishment on a mental level When someone with anorexia might discover a single thing in the larder they can take in When someone is running on empty and needs to call on their reserves When a person is exhausted from overwork and overthinking and has no sense of harvest for themselves To make sure the patient can take in the practitioner's care, when you're not sure they have started to receive When long-term deprivation, or giving out too much for too long, has emptied the person's own storehouse For lack of appetite on every level For great depletion: wasting, exhaustion, lack of motivation, a sense the patient really needs filling; it gives the comfort of knowing there are reserves For the physical or psychological aftermath of stress or traumatic emotional events
Combinations	SP-20 with ST-14: strengthens its effect when there is exhaustion and no sense of harvest
Notes	For an Earth Causative Factor (CF) Use in winter, when Earth is low

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