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

Modern location: An acupoint located on the smaller abdomen, 3 cùn inferior to the umbilicus and 2 cùn lateral to the midline.

Classical location: Three cùn below Great Gigantic (ST-27), two cùn either side of the midline. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: Branches of the subcostal artery and vein; laterally the inferior epigastric artery and vein. Branch of the subcostal nerve.

Action: Clears damp-heat and disinhibits the lower burner.

Modern indications: Smaller abdominal distension and fullness; inhibited urination; urinary stoppage; menstrual pain; infertility; mounting qì (shàn qì, inguinal hernia).

Classical indications: Foxlike mounting (shàn); cold in the bladder; heat binding in the triple burner; menstrual lumbar pain; uterine conglomeration.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5‒1.2 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 7‒15 cones; pole 10‒30 min.

Point name meaning:

• 水 shuǐ: water
• 道 dào: path

The three organs most intimately connected with water metabolism are the bladder, kidney and triple burner. ST-28 clears damp-heat from the lower burner, disinhibits the lower burner, and clears triple burner heat bind. It may also be employed in treating urinary inhibition and cold bladder The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng). Because of its ability to affect the body’s water metabolism (i.e., free the waterways), ST-28 is called Waterway. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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