B15 Xin Shu(Back Shu Point of the Heart, V15)

Location --1.5 cun lateral to Du11, at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the fifth thoracic vertebra

Indications Cardiac pain, panic, loss of memory, palpitation, cough, spitting of blood, nocturnal emission, night sweating, mania, epilepsy.

Method Puncture obliquely -0.5-0.7 inch. Moxibustion is applicable.

Vasculature The medial cutaneous branches of the posterior branches of the intercostal artery and vein.

lnnervalion The medial cutaneous branches of the posterior rami of the fifth and sixth thoracic nerves; deeper, their lateral branches.