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Alternate names: 商坵 shāng qiū, Shang Hill

Channel: SP, foot greater yīn (tài yīn) spleen channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the medial aspect of the ankle, in the depression anterior and inferior to the medial malleolus, midway between the tip of the malleolus and the tuberosity of the navicular bone.

Classical location: In the slight depression under the inside anklebone, between Mound Center (LR-4) in front and Shining Sea (KI-6) behind. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The medial tarsal artery and the great saphenous vein. The medial crural cutaneous nerve and branch of the superficial peroneal nerve.

Action: Fortifies the spleen and disinhibits dampness.

Modern indications: Abdominal distension; diarrhea; constipation; jaundice; constipation; diarrhea; ankle pain.

Classical indications: Spleen vacuity; sloppy diarrhea; heart sorrow; constipation; heat effusion with aversion to cold and retching; pain in the stomach duct; jaundice; nontransformation of grain and water (undigested food in the stool); stomach reflux; pain in the thighs; breast pain; hemorrhoids; mounting (shàn) causing smaller abdominal pain; hypertonicity of the sinews; impaired bending and stretching of the knee with inability to walk; pain in the inner ankle; infertility; child fright wind (convulsions); throat impediment (hóu bì); glomus; bone impediment (gǔ bì).

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3‒1.0 cùn oblique or perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3 cones; pole 5‒10 min.

Needle sensation: Localized twinge and pain.

Point groups: River (jīng) (metal) point.

Point name meaning:

• 商 shāng: one of five sounds of the musical scale; market
• 丘 qiū: hill

SP-5 is the river (jīng) (metal) point of the spleen channel; the sound associated with metal is 商 (shāng). The character 丘 (qiū), meaning hill, refers to the bone that bulges out beside the hollow in which this point lies. As SP-5 is the metal point of the earth channel, the name implies a high point of earth (hill) where the ore that makes metal (shāng) is mined.

This point name is also a place name and a surname. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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