Shendao

On the posterior midline, below the spinous process of the fifth thoracic vertebra — five intervertebral spaces down from C7.

1. 01Needle obliquely in an upward direction, 0.5 to 1 cun.
2. 02Moxibustion may be used.
3. 03Insert at a slant, 0.5 to 1 cun.
4. 04Caution: the spinal canal lies 1.25 to 1.75 cun below the skin surface, varying according to body build.

• ·Harmonizes the Heart
• ·Calms the Shen
• ·Opens the chest
• ·Tonifies the Heart and Lungs
• ·Clears Heat
• ·Settles Wind

• ·Asthma
• ·Cough
• ·Chest and hypochondriac pain
• ·Anxiety and palpitations due to fear
• ·Neurasthenia
• ·Aphasia due to windstroke
• ·Forgetfulness
• ·Insomnia
• ·Sadness
• ·Disorientation
• ·timidity with shortness of breath
• ·Lack of Qi
• ·Taxation consumption
• ·Fever due to injury by Cold with a headache that comes and goes
• ·Heat in the body
• ·Dizziness
• ·Heat in the Liver
• ·Hot dyspnea
• ·Fever and chills
• ·Tetany
• ·Difficulty closing the mouth due to spasm
• ·Poor memory
• ·Pain and stiffness of the back
• ·Cardiac pain
• ·First aid for mad dog bites
• ·Fever
• ·Malaria
• ·heart disease
• ·Seizures
• ·Intercostal neuralgia
• ·childhood Wind epilepsy
• ·Clonic spasm
• ·Childhood fright Wind
• ·Lockjaw
• ·Pain and Cold sensations of the upper back

Certain classical texts prohibit needling this point.

• ·Its actions are applied mainly to Excess-type patterns of the Heart.
• ·Moxibustion at this point strengthens the Heart.
• ·It sits at the same vertebral level as UB-15 Xinshu and UB-44 Shentang.