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Alternate names: 羊矢 yáng shǐ, Goat Arrow (eumphemistic for Goat Shit?)

Channel: LR, Foot Reverting Yīn (jué yīn) Liver Channel

Modern location: An acupoint located in the groin, 0.5 cùn lateral and slightly inferior to ST-30.

Classic location: Above Yīn Corner (LI-11) and the genitals, two and a half cùn either side of the midline. A hardness can be dimly felt under pressure and hard pressure will produce pain that radiates up and down. (Yī Zōng Jīn Jiàn)

Local anatomy: The branches of the external pudendal artery and vein, the pubic branches of the inferior epigastric artery and vein; laterally, the femoral vein. The ilioinguinal nerve; deeper, in the inferior aspect, the anterior branch of the obturator nerve.

Action: Frees the channels and disperses cold.

Modern indications: Smaller abdominal pain; mounting qì (shàn qì, inguinal hernia); yīn protrusion (prolapse of the uterus).

Classic indications: Pain in the penis; mounting (shàn); pain in the smaller abdomen.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3‒0.5 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒5 cones; pole 5‒15 min.

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