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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 (xī) point of the stomach channel.

Point name meaning:

• 梁 liáng: crossbeam, ridge
• 丘 qiū: mound, hill

ST-34 is located two cùn above the laterosuperior border of the patella. There is a rise in the muscle at this point that resembles a small mound. The name Beam Hill may stem from ST-34‘s ability to treat 伏梁 (fú liáng) deep-lying beam (see ST-21).

Optionally, this point name could be rendered as Hill Ridge because it is located on the ridge of the hill of flesh above the knee. The leg must be straightened and the muscle flexed to see the hill of flesh.

ST-34 is notably the cleft (xī) point of the stomach channel. Cleft (xī) points are where channel qì gathers. The name of this point reveals that this point is a gathering of earth qì, i.e., a hill. Were the character 梁 (liáng) taken as a mistranscription of 粱 (liáng) as occurred in the point name in Beam Gate (ST-21), the point name would then become Grain Hill, a fitting epithet for the stomach.

梁丘 is also a place name from the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese History. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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