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Alternate names: 在泉 zài quán, At the Spring

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

Modern location: An acupoint located on the smaller abdomen, 1 cùn inferior to the umbilicus and 2 cùn lateral to the midline.

Classical location: One cùn below Celestial Pivot (ST-25), two cùn either side of the midline. From The Golden Mirror of Medicine (医宗金鑑 yī zōng jīn jiàn)

Local anatomy: See ST-25.

Action: Disperses cold; relieves pain; rectifies qì.

Modern indications: Abdominal pain; mounting qì (shàn qì, inguinal hernia); painful menstruation.

Classical indications: Menstrual pain.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5‒1.2 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 7‒15 cones; pole 10‒20 min.

Point name meaning:

• 外 wài: outside, outer
• 陵 líng: tomb, burial mound

The Chinese traditionally buried their dead in mounds. These mounds, called 陵 líng, are often seen on hillsides and other geomantically propitious locations in China. The bulges of the rectus abdominus muscle resemble mounds, and since ST-26 is located on the outer sides of these mounds it is called Outer Mound.

Piles of earth are called mounds or hills. The spleen and stomach channels have many hill and mound points because these two channels belong to the earth phase of the five phases. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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