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    Yaoyangguan Du-3: Lumbar Yang Gate

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    The document provides information about acupuncture point Yaoyangguan (DU-3) including its location, indications, commentary, and needling techniques. It is located in the lower back below the fourth lumbar vertebra and can be used to treat inability to flex or extend the knee, pain in the outer aspect of the knee, numbness, and inability to walk due to taxation injury or disorders of the menstruation and genitals. Needling should be done perpendicularly at a depth of 0.5 to 1 cun with caution taken to avoid puncturing the spinal canal.

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    The document provides information about acupuncture point Yaoyangguan (DU-3) including its location, indications, commentary, and needling techniques. It is located in the lower back below the fourth lumbar vertebra and can be used to treat inability to flex or extend the knee, pain in the outer aspect of the knee, numbness, and inability to walk due to taxation injury or disorders of the menstruation and genitals. Needling should be done perpendicularly at a depth of 0.5 to 1 cun with caution taken to avoid puncturing the spinal canal.

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    The document provides information about acupuncture point Yaoyangguan (DU-3) including its location, indications, commentary, and needling techniques. It is located in the lower back below the fourth lumbar vertebra and can be used to treat inability to flex or extend the knee, pain in the outer aspect of the knee, numbness, and inability to walk due to taxation injury or disorders of the menstruation and genitals. Needling should be done perpendicularly at a depth of 0.5 to 1 cun with caution taken to avoid puncturing the spinal canal.

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    Yaoyangguan Du-3: Lumbar Yang Gate

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    The document provides information about acupuncture point Yaoyangguan (DU-3) including its location, indications, commentary, and needling techniques. It is located in the lower back below the fourth lumbar vertebra and can be used to treat inability to flex or extend the knee, pain in the outer aspect of the knee, numbness, and inability to walk due to taxation injury or disorders of the menstruation and genitals. Needling should be done perpendicularly at a depth of 0.5 to 1 cun with caution taken to avoid puncturing the spinal canal.

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    L.

    Intestine CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS Stomach The Governing vessel Spleen Heart

    General Index Indications Index Point Names Index Glossary Points Index General General General Index Index Index Indications Indications Indications Index Index Index Point Point Point Names Names Names Index Index Index Glossary Glossary Glossary Points Points Points Index Index Index General Index Indications Index Point Names Index Glossary Points Index General Index Indications Index Point Names Index Glossary Points Index Previous Point Next Point Combinations Index Previous Previous Previous Point Point Point Next Next Next Point Point Point Combinations Combinations Combinations Index Index Index 1 See Notes Previous Point Point Combinations Index Previous Point Next Next Point Combinations Index

    S. Intestine YAOYANGGUAN DU-3 Bladder Lumbar Yang Gate Kidney LOCATION Pericardium

    INDICATIONS

    On the midline of the lower back, in the Sanjiao depression below the spinous process of Gall Bladder the fourth lumbar vertebra. Liver

    Inability to flex and extend the knee, pain of the outer aspect of the knee, wind painful obstruction with numbness, contraction of the sinews, inability to walk, pain of the crotch and lumbar region due to taxation injury. Seminal emission, impotence, white turbidity, disorders of menstruation, leucorrhoea.
    COMMENTARY

    Conception Governing Extra Points


    Mingmen DU-4

    The principal clinical use of Yaoyangguan DU-3 is in the treatment of dual disorders of the lumbar region and legs, and it is one of the main points on the back itself which treats disorders of the lower limb.

    Dachangshu BL-25

    lower border of L4

    Yaoyangguan DU-3

    LOCATION NOTE

    This point is located one intervertebral space below the line connecting the highest points of the two iliac crests (level with the lower border of L3).
    NEEDLING

    Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun. Caution: the spinal canal lies between 1.25 and 1.75 cun deep to the skin surface, varying according to body build.
    ACTIONS

    Dispels wind-damp Benefits the lumbar region and legs Regulates the lower jiao

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