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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.

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

Classical 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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