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Alternate names: 回骨 huí gǔ, Return Bone; 尿胞 niào bāo, Urinary Bladder; 曲骨端 qū gǔ duān, Curved Bone's End; 屈骨 qū gǔ, Crooked Bone; 屈骨端 qū gǔ duān, Crooked Bone's End; 髓俞 suǐ shù, Marrow Transport

Channel: CV, Controlling (rèn) Vessel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the smaller abdomen, at the superior border of the pubic symphysis, 5 cùn inferior to the umbilicus on the midline.

Classic location: Directly above Meeting of Yīn (CV-1), above the transverse bone, in the depression at the pubic hairline where the pulsating vessel can be felt, five cùn below the navel. (Yī Zōng Jīn Jiàn)

Local anatomy: The branches of the inferior epigastric artery and the obturator artery. The branch of the iliohypogastric nerve.

Action: Warms yáng and supplements the kidney; regulates the menses and checks vaginal discharge.

Modern indications: Inhibited urination; enuresis; seminal emission; impotence; menstrual irregularities; vaginal discharge.

Classic indications: Seminal loss; vacuity exhaustion of the five viscera; red and white vaginal discharge; impotence; dribbling urination; mounting (shàn) pain; distension and fullness of the smaller abdomen; smaller abdominal pain; shifted bladder causing urinary stoppage; dryness and genital pain; water swelling; cholera cramps.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3‒1.5 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒10 cones; pole 10‒20 min.

Needle sensation: Twinge and distension extending down towards the external genitalia.

Point groups: Intersection point (jiāo huì xué) of the controlling vessel and liver channel.

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