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Your patient complains of acute epigastric pain. Since the Stomach channel runs through this area, you decide to use a point on the Stomach channel. Which point would you choose in order to treat acute pain?

ST-43, the Shu-Stream point
ST-34, the Xi-Cleft point
ST-40, the Luo-Connecting point
ST-36, the He-Sea point

Xi-Cleft points treat acute conditions and pain. Deadman will list this function as, "Moderates acute conditions"

Source: "Point Categories." A Manual of Acupuncture, by Peter Deadman et al., Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications, 2007, pp. 38-39 [Q834]