Broken Basin / Que Pen
Updated 2026-08-04
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
A landmark and acupoint in Chinese medicine, located in the hollow above the collarbone and also known as the stomach channel point ST12. Its core proposition is that many channels from the internal organs pass through this narrow opening on their way into the chest and abdomen, making it a diagnostic window on the trunk and a convergence point for treatment. The key qualifier is that its anatomy makes needling hazardous, since the region contains major vessels and the apex of the lung.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Narrow Passage: Read pain at a narrow junction as a sign that flow to everything beyond it is compromised. - Watch the Bottleneck: Treat constricted openings as the place where upstream problems surface first. - Locate Relatively: Use the collarbone hollow as a landmark for finding nearby structures and points.
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Where many routes converge into one passage, obstruction there affects all of them at once, so symptoms at the passage point to a shared downstream problem rather than a local one. The same convergence makes the site diagnostically informative and therapeutically powerful, and the same narrow anatomy makes intervention risky. Reading a bottleneck as information rather than as an isolated complaint is the general lesson.
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