Breast Distention

"Breast Distention" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for breast distention.

Content Related to Breast Distention

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "breast distention" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "breast distention" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

• View KD 21 (Dark Gate)
  
      6 cun above CV 8, .5 cun lateral to CV 14.
  
      Local point for abdominal and intestinal pain and functional issues. Reflux, vomiting, food stagnation, dystenary - harmonizes stomach. Liver stagnation affecting the breasts - insufficient lactation, breast distention.
• View KD 24 (Spirit Ruins)
  
      In the 3rd ICS 2 cun lateral to CV 18.
  
      Local Point, generally useful for cough, chest tension, constricted breathing. Breast distention - moves qi stagnation in the chest. Palpitations, abdominal bloating, panic attacks arising from digestive issues.
• View SI 1 (Lesser Marsh)
  
      .1 cun posterior to the corner of the nail on the ulnar side of the little finger.
  
      Breast disorders of any etiology, insufficient lactation, mastitis, breast abscess, cysts. Jing Well Point, clear heat from the opposite end of the channel, for eye redness, earache, tinnitus, sore throat, stiff tongue. Headache, dizzine…
• View SI 11 (Celestial Gathering)
  
      On the scapula in a depression at the center of the infrascapular fossa, found at the junction of the upper and middle …
  
      Breast problems, mastitis, insufficient lactation, breast pain. Emotional issues, anxiety that presents with asthma, expands and relaxes the chest, asthma generally. Local point for channel pain within the shoulder, scapula region, elbow…
• View SP 17 (Food Hole)
  
      6 cun lateral to the anterior midline in the 5th inter-costal space.
  
      Promotes smooth spleen qi (digestion), moves water stagnation - fullness of the chest and/or lateral costal region, abdominal distention perhaps with water swelling, belching, vomiting after eating, boborygmus.
• View SP 18 (Celestial Ravine)
  
      6 cun lateral to the anterior midline in the 4th inter-costal space.
  
      Descends qi - chest oppression, shortness of breath, cough, hiccup, running piglet disorder. Opens the chest and circulation in the breasts - breast pain, insufficient lactation.
• View ST 15 (Roof)
  
      4 cun lateral to the AML in the 2nd ICS.
  
      Asthma, chest oppression, fullness a/or pain in the chest. Breast pain, distention, mastitis, abscess. General pain, heaviness and/or itching of the whole body.
• View ST 16 (Breast Window)
  
      4 cun lateral to the AML in the 3rd ICS.
  
      Chest tightness a/or pain, asthma, cough. Breast pain, abscess, mastitis. Swelling of the lips (with LV 3).
• View ST 18 (Breast Root)
  
      4 cun lateral to the AML in the 5th ICS.
  
      Any issues with the breasts - mastitis, pain/swelling, insufficient lactation. Chest tightness/oppression, asthma, cough.
• View ST 34 (Beam Hill)
  
      With knee flexed, 2 cun above the superior lateral border of the patella on the line connecting with the ASIS.
  
      Lateral knee issues, swelling, pain, difficult movement. Pain, motor control, circulation issues of the knee and/or lower leg. Excess & Acute issues of the Stomach and chest - acute Stomach pain, GERD, vomiting, acute breast pain.
• View ST 36 (Leg Three Li)
  
      3 cun below ST 35, one finger width lateral from the anterior border of the tibia.
  
      Tonify deficient Qi a/or Blood. Tonify Wei Qi and Qi overall - low immunity, chronic illness, poor digestion, general weakness, particularly with moxibustion, very important acupuncture point for building and maintaining overall health. …
• View ST 39 (Lower Great Hollow)
  
      9 cun below ST 35, one finger width lateral from the anterior border of the tibia.
  
      Disorders of the Small Intestine organ - abdominal pain, diarrhea, dysentary. SI channel problems - breast issues, mastitis, pain/swelling/numbness along channel. Local point for lower leg issues - pain, numbness, motor control, atrophy.