Dazhu (BL11)
Dazhu (BL11), “Great Shuttle”, is a point on the Bladder meridian. It is point 11 of the 67 on the channel. Influential point of the bones: nourishes bone, releases the exterior and relaxes the neck.
Location
In the upper back, level with the lower border of the T1 spinous process, 1.5 cun lateral to the posterior median line.
Functions according to tradition
Influential point of the bones: nourishes bone, releases the exterior and relaxes the neck.
Traditional indications
- Neck stiffness
- Upper back pain
- Cough
- Fever
- Bone pain
Indications described by tradition; they do not amount to proven clinical effectiveness for each one.
What its classification means
One of the eight points that tradition credits with a special influence over a tissue or substance: Qi, Blood, tendons, marrow, vessels, bones, zang organs or fu organs.
Two or more channels meet here, so it is credited with acting on all of them.
Precautions
Needle obliquely towards the spine: deep perpendicular insertion reaches the lung.
Points on other channels with similar indications
They share several traditional indications with this point. Comparing them helps understand why one or the other is chosen.
- SI15 Jianzhongshu (Small Intestine): Cough, Neck stiffness
- DU14 Dazhui (Du Mai (Governing Vessel)): Fever, Neck stiffness
- GV10 Lingtai (Du Mai (Governing Vessel)): Cough, Fever
- GV13 Taodao (Du Mai (Governing Vessel)): Fever, Neck stiffness
- LU7 Lieque (Lung): Cough, Neck stiffness
- SI7 Zhizheng (Small Intestine): Fever, Neck stiffness
Point profile
- Code
- BL11
- Pinyin name
- Dà Zhù
- Characters
- 大杼
- Translation
- Great Shuttle
- Meridian
- Bladder
- Element
- Water
- Classification
- Influential point of bones, Crossing point
- Topics
- Bones, Neck, Cough
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