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Alternate names: 下昆仑 xià kūn lún, Lower Kunlun Mountains

Channel: BL, foot greater yáng (tài yáng) bladder channel

Modern location: An acupoint located at the ankle joint, midway between the lateral malleolus and the Achilles tendon (t. calcaneus), level with the tip of the malleolus.

Classical location: Below Instep Yáng (BL-59), five fēn behind the outer anklebone, in the depression above the heel bone, where a fine pulsating vessel can be felt. From The Golden Mirror of Medicine (医宗金鑑 yī zōng jīn jiàn)

Local anatomy: The small saphenous vein, the posteroexternal malleolar artery and vein. The sural nerve.

Action: Dispels greater yáng (tài yáng) channel evils; rectifies uterine blood stagnation; soothes the sinews and transforms dampness; strengthens the kidney, lumbus and legs.

Modern indications: Headache; stiff nape; dizzy vision; nosebleed; epilepsy; difficult delivery; lumbosacral pain; heel pain.

Classical indications: malarial disease; diseases of the head; aching among the upper teeth; fullness in the chest and fulminant panting; abdominal pain and throughflux diarrhea (dòng xiè); retention of the placenta; hemilateral wind; child fright epilepsy (jīng xián).

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒7 cones; pole 5‒20 min.

Point groups: River (jīng) (fire) point; one of Mǎ Dān-Yáng’s twelve heavenly star points.

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