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

Modern location: An acupoint located on the lateral aspect of the foot, proximal to the head of the fifth metatarsal bone, at the border of the red and white flesh.

Classical location: On the outer side of the small toe, in the depression behind the base joint. From The Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸甲乙经 zhēn jiǔ jiǎ yǐ jīng)

Local anatomy: The 4th common plantar digital artery and vein. The 4th common plantar digital nerve and the lateral dorsal cutaneous nerve of the foot.

Action: Courses wind and dispels evils; clears heat and resolves toxin; soothes the sinews and quickens the network vessels.

Modern indications: Headache; stiff nape; dizzy vision; mania and withdrawal; pain in the lumbus and posterior aspect of the lower limbs.

Classical indications: Heat effusion and aversion to cold; tinnitus; painful red eyes; welling- and flat-abscesses (yōng jū) and effusion of the back (fā bèi); clove sores (dīng chuāng); intestinal afflux diarrhea; hemorrhoids; aversion to wind and cold in febrile disease; stiff nape preventing movement.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒7 cones; pole 3‒5 min.

Point groups: Stream (shù) (wood) point.

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