Sundance Acupuncture

Herb & Acupuncture Database

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ST-24 Huaroumen - Lubrication Food Gate

More Spirit Names: Slippery Flesh Gate, Door of Slippery Flesh, Celestial Manager

English:	Slippery Flesh Gate
Also Known As:	Door of Slippery Flesh Sliding Door of Flesh Lubrication Food Gate

Location

1 cun above the navel and 2 cun lateral to REN-9 Shuifen.
On the abdomen, 2 cun lateral to the midline and 1 cun superior to the umbilicus, level with REN-9 Shuifen.

Needling

Straight insertion 1 to 2 cun.
Puncture perpendicularly 0.7 to 1 cun.
Moxibustion is applicable.
Perpendicular insertion 1 to 1.5 cun.
Caution: In thin patients, deep needling may penetrate the peritoneal cavity.

Command Functions

Actions

Transforms Phlegm
Calms the Shen
Harmonizes the Stomach
Alleviates vomiting
Enhances the processing of food
Limbers up the whole body

Indications

Chronic and acute gastritis
Gastric pain
Tongue thrusting
Stiff tongue
Hematemesis

Insanity
Vomiting
Mania-depression
Lotus flower tongue
Epigastric pain

Combinations

HT-3
Shaohai
LI-7
Wenliu

Stiff tongue

Tongue thrusting

Contraindications

Notes

This point is useful if the physical body or the mind/Shen is stuck.
This is a good point for dancers.

Five Elements Spirit Perspective

Spirit of the Point	Lubrication Food Gate is for people who feel bloated and full, when food sits like a brick in the stomach. It helps processing and digestion and lubricates the nourishment of body, mind and spirit right in the center. It is for when someone cannot stomach something on any level, and in general it brings more energy to the whole body. A gate that all nourishment on every level must pass through, it lets nourishment reach deep inside where it truly satisfies, with the right amount of fluid for that.
Worsley	Location: On the abdomen, 3 ACI from the midline and 1 ACI above the umbilicus level, beside REN-9. Needle depth: 8 fen Moxa: 5-15 cones
When to Consider	When food sits like a brick in the stomach and the person feels full and bloated When someone cannot stomach something on any level When a person keeps steering around issues instead of processing them, or has become mentally blocked When what has been taken in is not nourishing the person When transformation stays in the mind and does not reach the body For obsessive rehashing, thinking something over and over without ever completing it When a person eats yet is not nourished, as though the gates are locked and nothing moves through When something has hit a person right in the middle: 'it got me in the gut' When the person says, "Nothing satisfies me" or "I can't take this in"
Combinations	SP-16 with ST-24: a very good combination
Notes	One of the group ST-19, ST-20, ST-24 and ST-25 that moves Qi through the middle Dryness and Fire in the Stomach can drive the Qi upward against its flow, which injures the Heart and can show as losing one's mind in rage or craziness

From Class

ST-23 Taiyi / ST-24 Huaroumen: ST-23/ST-24 quiet the shen (abdomen as 'second brain'); Taiyi is above Taiji; ST-40 clears rather than quiets; moxa calms, needling/bleeding clears. (Yuen)
ST-24 (moxa) & ST-21 Liangmen: Moxa ST-24 to transform dampness; ST-21 for qi stagnation with a wiry pulse. (Yuen)
Quiet the shen: ST-23, ST-24, HT-3 to HT-6: For yin emotions (depression, fear). (Yuen)

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