HT-06 (Yin Xi) Yin Cleft
  Acupuncture Points on the Heart Channel of Hand Shao Yin
Common and Key Uses:
- Stops night sweating and steaming bone
Actions:
- Regulates Heart blood
- Calms the spirit
- Moderates acute conditions
- Clears deficiency fire and alleviates night sweating
Indications:
- Cardiac pain, hysteria, night sweating, hemoptysis, epistaxis, sudden loss of voice.
Location
CAM:
- When the palm faces upward, the point is on the radial side of the tendon of m. flexor carpi ulnaris, 0.5 cun above the transverse crease of the wrist.
AMOA:
- On the radial side of the tendon of flexor carpi ulnaris, 0.5 cun proximal to Shenmen HE-7.
Needling Method:
- Puncture perpendicularly 0.3-0.5 inch. Moxibustion is applicable.
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- Andrew Ellis, Nigel Wiseman, Ken Boss
- Cheng Xinnong
- Peter Deadman
- Shanghai College of TCM