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Alternate names: 鹤顶 hè dǐng, Crane Top; 鸡顶 jī dǐng, Chicken Top; 骻骨 kuà gǔ, Hip Bone

Channel: ST, foot yáng brightness (yáng míng) stomach channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the anterior aspect of the thigh, 2 cùn proximal to the superolateral corner of the patella, on the line that connects the anterior superior iliac spine (asis) and the lateral border of the patella.

Classical location: One cùn below Yīn Market (ST-33), in the depression between the two sinews. From The Golden Mirror of Medicine (医宗金鑑 yī zōng jīn jiàn)

Local anatomy: See ST-33.

Action: Regulates the stomach and rectifies qì; harmonizes the center and downbears counterflow; frees the channels and quickens the network vessels.

Modern indications: Painful swelling of the knee; paralysis of the lower limbs; stomach pain; stomach pain; mammary welling-abscess (rǔ yōng); bloody urine.

Classical indications: Lumbar pain; cold lower limbs.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5‒1.0 perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒7 cones; pole 5‒15 min.

Point groups: Cleft point (xī xué) of the stomach channel.

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