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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.

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

Classical 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.

Point name meaning:

• 急 jí: urgent, hasty; anxious; acute
• 脉 mài: (:): vessel; pulse

This point name is described in Sù Wèn as being derived from the nature of the pulse at the point when the liver channel is struck by cold evil.

The alternate name 羊矢 (yáng shǐ), Goat Arrow, is derived from the hard arrow-shaped sinew located just below the point. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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