Clinical Application of Shen Que Point

The Shen Que point is located in the umbilicus and is also known as the Qi She, the Life-Ti, and the Ren Chakra point. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the umbilicus is the node of the innate nature and the qi shed of the acquired nature, between the middle and lower jiao, and the place where the qi between the kidneys moves, so Shen Que is most closely related to the spleen, kidneys and stomach. According to the theory of meridians, the umbilicus is the place where the Ren, Du and Chong Channels meet, thus linking with the meridians of the whole body, through which the five channels, six internal organs, all the limbs and bones, the five senses and nine orifices and the skin and flesh and fascia are connected. The umbilical region and below the umbilicus is the location of the “Dantian” where Taoists and Buddhists practice gong and cultivate their essence. Clinically, moxibustion and medicine applied to the umbilicus are used to treat the deficiencies of the body and to strengthen the body. 1. Returning Yang and fixing off: for fainting, sweating, sudden drop of blood pressure and pulse weakness caused by Yang Qi deficiency, moxibustion of Shen Que acupoint with large moxa pillar across with seed cake is used to rescue the patient. It is often used in poor medical conditions and emergency cases to restore Yang. It is also used clinically in patients with prolapse of the middle qi, such as prolapse of the uterus. 2. Warming the spleen and kidney and stopping diarrhea. For those with deficiency of spleen and kidney yang, cold hands and feet, cold fear, and prolonged diarrhea, place the anti-diarrhea cake on the Shen Que point and moxibustion 7 cones each time for 5 days for a course of treatment. It has the function of adjusting gastrointestinal qi, dispersing cold and relieving diarrhea and pain (how to make anti-diarrhea cake: take some raw garlic, peel the skin and remove the miscellaneous, boil and mash it like mud, take 2g of bitter ginseng, 1g of rhubarb, 2g of Huanglian, 2g of muxiang, 2g of Wu Zhuyu, 2g of cinnamon, grind it finely and mix it with garlic mud to form a cake). 3, strong body health moxibustion. The “Class Jing Tu Yi” cloud “Shen Que interval salt moxibustion, if moxibustion to three or five hundred strong, not only to heal the disease, but also to prolong life.” Every day with fine salt flat supplement Shen Que point, and the umbilicus level, take the size of the rice grain moxa column moxibustion, each time 10 cones, to warm for the degree of health care moxibustion, to strengthen the body to delay the effects of aging. Experiments have shown that moxibustion of Shen Que point can improve cellular and humoral immune function; improve the phenomenon of declining immune function in middle-aged and elderly people due to the low functional state of the body. With the emphasis on Chinese medicine at home and abroad, umbilical cord therapy is emerging as a natural therapy.