Chest and rib pain radiating to the back, nausea, vomiting, inability to swallow food, frequent belching, heart pain, rebellious qi, restlessness, gastric spasm, gastric ptosis, intercostal neuralgia, abdominal pain, indigestion, diarrhea, dysentery.
In the upper abdomen, 6 cun above the navel (at the acupoint Great Palace (CV-14)), 0.5 cun lateral to it. (This acupoint is a pair, one on each side)
Step 1: Lie in a supine position; Step 2: Feel downwards along the anterior midline to identify the depression formed between the body of the sternum and the xiphoid process, which is the xiphoid process of the sternum; Step 3: Divide the line connecting the xiphoid process and the navel into four equal parts, and from the intersection of the upper 1/4 and the lower 3/4 (the acupoint Great Palace (CV-14)), move half a transverse finger laterally (the transverse diameter at the thumb interphalangeal joint is 1 cun), and this is where the acupoint is located.