Governing Vessel - Du Mai Acupuncture Meridian (jing luo)

Du Mai

Du 1 (changqiang)

connect to Ren

harmonize Yin Yang & bowels, hemafecia, hemorrhoids, prolapse
Location: between coccyx & anus

Du 2 (yaoshu)

warms low Jiao, Wind/Damp, hemorrhoids, irregular menses
Location: in the sacro coccygeal hiatus

Du 3 (yaoyangguan)

warm Liver KI, low Jiao Damp/Cold, sciatica, lumbosacral pain
Location: below L4

Du 4 (mingmen)

tonify Kidney & Essence (leukorrhea), soothe sinews, harmonize blood, cold or 5am diarrhea
Location: below L2

Du 9  (zhiyang)

tonify Yang Qi, loosen chest (cough), clear Damp/Heat (jaundice), chest & back pain
Location: below T7

Du 11 (shendao)

internal/external Wind, calms spirit, impaired memory
Location: below T5

Du 12 (shenzhu)

internal/external Wind, clear Heat (Ying, fever, HT, Wind/Heat), tonify Lung
Location: below T3

Du 13 (taodao)

expel Wind Heat, clear Lung Heat, tonifies deficiency
Location: below T

Du 14 (dazhui)

intersection of 6 Fu

external/internal Heat, severe Yin deficiency (steaming bone, tidal fever), local problems, frees Yang Qi, clear LU, calm spirit (HT, epilepsy), common cold
Location: below C7

Du 15 (yamen)

9 needle to return Yang

Heat Bi, clear/open Shen, wind strike, occipital headache
Location: 0.5 cun within hairline

Du 16 (fengfu)

Ghost

Wind/Cold or Wind/Heat, calms spirit, drain Fire
Location: 1 cun within hairline

Du 20 (baihui):

intersection of 6 Fu

LR Wind, calms spirit, returns inversion, raises Yang Qi, Heat in Yang Jing, headache (LR deficiency), diarrhea, insomnia, rectal prolapse
Locationat the vertex of the head (highest point)

Du 23 (shangxing)

Ghost

open head & nose (headache/congestion), eye problems, stop bleeding (nose)
Location: 1 cun posterior to the anterior hairline

Du 24 (shenting)

calm Liver & Liver Wind, calms spirit, nasal congestion, insomnia, headache
Location: 0.5 cun within anterior hairline

Du 26 (renzhong)

returns inversion, calm spirit, dispel Wind, stubborn hiccups, lumbar pain/stiffness
Location: above the upper lip on the midline, at the junction of the upper 1/3 & lower 2/3 of the philtrum.