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Approximately three cun below the center of the knee. *The Copper Man Classic* records it as two cun. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Indications: stiffness and pain in the lumbar spine radiating to the abdomen, heat, soreness, and heaviness in the knees and thighs; hernia (*shan*), metrorrhagia (profuse uterine bleeding) in women, pain above and below the abdomen, intestinal dysentery (*chang pi*), and sudden painful failure of the genitalia.

At the arterial pulse in the center of the popliteal fossa. For wind-bi syndrome, heaviness and pain in the waist and legs, bloodletting is performed here. Stubborn, chronic skin eruptions will also be cured immediately. (Moxibustion: three moxa cones.) Indications: fever of the whole body, hemorrhoidal pain, swelling in the axilla, weakness and powerlessness in the legs, heaviness in the lumbosacral region making lifting difficult, tendon spasm in the popliteal fossa, hemiplegia, hardness and swelling of the lower abdomen, rigidity of the spine with opisthotonos, clonic spasms (*yuan*), epilepsy, headache, febrile disease with anhidrosis, hot feet with cold reversal, fullness, inability to flex or extend the knees.

This is the Lower Shu-Stream point of the Sanjiao (Triple Burner). It is located anterior to the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian and posterior to the Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, emerging between the two tendons on the lateral aspect of the calf, six cun below Chengfu (BL 36). Moxibustion: three moxa cones. Indications: jumping sensation in the yin region, difficulty in urination, hardness and pain in the lower abdomen radiating to the genitals, inability to urinate, dribbling, low back pain preventing flexion and extension, rigidity of the spine with opisthotonos, clonic spasms (*yuan*), epilepsy, headache, tendon spasm, swelling and pain in the axilla, chest fullness and distension, fever, Feishi Dunzhu (a sudden, wandering painful condition), flaccid paralysis with numbness.

One cun above Weiyang (BL 39), found by extending the leg. Moxibustion: three moxa cones. Indications: heat in the lower abdomen, hard stool, heat in the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, dryness and constipation of the Large Intestine, tendon spasm in the sinews of the lateral thigh around the hip pivot.

Six cun below the fleshy part. (Moxibustion: three moxa cones.) Indications: inability to flex or extend the lumbar spine, stasis of evil blood caused by heavy lifting, swelling of the lateral thigh.

Below the coccyx and buttocks, at the middle of the lower inner thigh. Alternatively stated: at the transverse crease below the buttocks (Original note: also known as Rouguan, Yinguany, Pibu). (Moxibustion: three moxa cones.) Indications: difficulty in urination, spermatorrhea, cold pain in the lumbar spine, coccyx, buttocks, thighs, and genitals, hemorrhoids, swelling in the axilla, swelling below the coccyx, fecal incontinence, cold in the uterus, sensation of the lumbar spine being pulled apart as if dislocated, swelling of the coccygeal region, difficulty in defecation.