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    Burong St-19: Not Contained

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    Burong ST-19 is an acupuncture point located on the abdomen that is used to treat abdominal distention, epigastric pain, vomiting, cough, chest pain, and shoulder pain. It is sometimes used for hypochondriac pain, nausea, and vomiting related to gallbladder issues. Needling this point perpendicularly at a shallow depth of 0.5 to 0.8 cun can help harmonize the middle abdomen, lower rebellious qi, descend qi to relieve coughing and wheezing. Caution is needed to avoid injuring the heart or liver with deep needling if those organs are enlarged.

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    Burong ST-19 is an acupuncture point located on the abdomen that is used to treat abdominal distention, epigastric pain, vomiting, cough, chest pain, and shoulder pain. It is sometimes used for hypochondriac pain, nausea, and vomiting related to gallbladder issues. Needling this point perpendicularly at a shallow depth of 0.5 to 0.8 cun can help harmonize the middle abdomen, lower rebellious qi, descend qi to relieve coughing and wheezing. Caution is needed to avoid injuring the heart or liver with deep needling if those organs are enlarged.

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    Burong ST-19 is an acupuncture point located on the abdomen that is used to treat abdominal distention, epigastric pain, vomiting, cough, chest pain, and shoulder pain. It is sometimes used for hypochondriac pain, nausea, and vomiting related to gallbladder issues. Needling this point perpendicularly at a shallow depth of 0.5 to 0.8 cun can help harmonize the middle abdomen, lower rebellious qi, descend qi to relieve coughing and wheezing. Caution is needed to avoid injuring the heart or liver with deep needling if those organs are enlarged.

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    Burong ST-19 is an acupuncture point located on the abdomen that is used to treat abdominal distention, epigastric pain, vomiting, cough, chest pain, and shoulder pain. It is sometimes used for hypochondriac pain, nausea, and vomiting related to gallbladder issues. Needling this point perpendicularly at a shallow depth of 0.5 to 0.8 cun can help harmonize the middle abdomen, lower rebellious qi, descend qi to relieve coughing and wheezing. Caution is needed to avoid injuring the heart or liver with deep needling if those organs are enlarged.

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    Stomach Channel 1

    BURONG ST-19 INDICATIONS


    Not Contained • Abdominal distention, epigastric pain, vomiting,
    vomiting blood, poor appetite, abdominal deficiency
    LOCATION borborygmus.
    On the abdomen, 2 cun lateral to the midline • Cough, dyspnoea, difficult breathing with raised
    and 6 cun superior to the umbilicus, level shoulders, pain of the chest, back, shoulder and inter-
    with Juque REN-14. costal region, pain of the Heart, dry mouth.

    COMMENTARY
    Because of its location, Burong ST-19 is sometimes se-
    2 cun
    lected for the treatment of hypochondriac pain, nausea
    and vomiting due to cholecystitis or cholelithiasis. Its
    name ‘Not Contained’ or ‘Uncontainable’ refers to the
    inability of the Stomach to retain its contents.

    COMBINATIONS
    • Vomiting: Burong ST-19, Shangwan REN-13 and
    Daling P-7 (Supplementing Life).
    • Stabbing pain of the Heart: Burong ST-19 and Qimen
    LIV-14 (Thousand Ducat Formulas).
    • Fullness of the chest and lateral costal region: Burong
    ST-19 and Zhangmen LIV-13 (One Hundred
    Symptoms).
    • Acute pain of cholelithiasis: Burong ST-19 (right),
    Dannangxue (M-LE-23), Yanglingquan GB-34 (left),
    Qimen LIV-14 (right), Zhongwan REN-12, Hegu
    L.I.-4 and Taichong LIV-3.

    Juque REN-14

    Burong ST-19

    LOCATION NOTE
    i. The 2 cun line is located halfway between the midline
    and the palpable lateral border of the rectus abdominis
    muscle; ii. In some patients with a narrow subcostal angle,
    this point may fall on the costal margin. The options then
    are to a. locate more medially, b. needle transversely on
    the costal margin, c. select a different point.

    NEEDLING
    Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 0.8 cun.
    Caution: deep insertion may injure the heart on the left or
    the liver on the right if either of these organs is enlarged.

    ACTIONS
    Harmonises the middle jiao and lowers rebellion
    Descends qi and alleviates cough and wheezing

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