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Alternate names: 地五 dì wǔ, Earth Five; 夹溪 jiā xī, Pinched Ravine

Channel: GB, Foot Lesser Yáng (shào yáng) Gallbladder Channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the dorsal aspect of the foot, between the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones, on the medial (distal) side of the extensor digitorum tendon that attaches to the little toe.

Classic location: In the depression behind and between the base joints of the little toe and the one next to it, one cùn from Pinched Ravine (GB-43). (Yī Zōng Jīn Jiàn)

Local anatomy: See GB-41.

Action: Clears the liver and drains the gallbladder; brightens the eyes and sharpens the hearing.

Modern indications: Headache; dizzy vision; red eyes; tinnitus; rib-side pain; mammary welling-abscess (rǔ yōng); vomiting of blood (blood ejection) from internal damage; redness and swelling dorsum of the foot.

Classic indications: Tinnitus; itching eye; spitting of blood due to internal injury; lumbar pain.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3‒0.4 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 2‒3 cones; pole 5‒10 min.

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