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GB-42 Earth Fivefold Convergence

地五会 〔地五會〕 dì wǔ huì

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.

Classical 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). From The Golden Mirror of Medicine (医宗金鑑 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.

Classical 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.

Point name meaning:

The character , meaning earth or ground, may be considered a reference to the point’s location on the foot, i.e., the point of contact between the body and gournd. The ideogram may be a reference to the five toes collectively or the fith tes specifically, while huì, meaning meeting or gathering, could be symbolic of the gathering together of the five toes, i.e., the foot, again reflecting the location of the point.

It may be significant that 五會 wǔ huì, as well as the constituting part of the this point’s name, is also alternate name for 百會 bǎi huì, Hundred Convergences (GV-20). While is unclear here what the phrase five convergences actually means, unless it is a reference to the five toes, it is more meaningfully rendered as more clear as regards translated as?? Fivefold Convergence (GV-20), where five, like hundred in Hundred Convergences, can be construed to mean many. It seems more than mere coincidence that there is a Fivefold Convergence at both the top and bottom of the the body. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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