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Indications: Major wind (leprosy) causing loss of eyebrows and hair, and Taiyang malaria. Symptoms begin in the back with initial chills followed by fever, sweating that is difficult to stop. Heavy head, muscle spasms (Zhuan Jin), pain in the lower back and spine, hemiplegia, urinary incontinence, hardness of the lower abdomen, wind-bi, pain in the hip joint (Bi Shu), knee pain, weakness and lack of strength in the feet. For lumbar pain caused by excess conditions of the Kidney and Bladder, needling to bleed yields excellent results; for deficiency conditions, needling is contraindicated—exercise caution. ○ This acupoint primarily drains heat from the four limbs. Weizhong (BL40) is the Xi-Cleft point of Blood. For febrile diseases with no sweat, difficulty urinating, persistent epistaxis, rigid spine with opisthotonos, convulsions, epilepsy, hot feet, jue-ni (cold extremities), and inability to flex or extend, draining blood from the Foot-Taiyang channel brings immediate recovery. ○ For spontaneous sweating and night sweats, apply the tonifying method at Weizhong (from *Taiyi Ge*). Combined with Renzhong (GV26) it eliminates severe lumbar and spinal pain (difficult to control after injury); combined with Huantiao (GB30) it removes wind-dampness pain in the legs (from *Yulong Fu*); combined with Baihuan Shu (BL30) it treats back pain radiating to the waist, tested successfully (from *Baizheng Fu*). Weizhong combined with Kunlun (BL60) treats connected lumbar pain (from *Qianjin Fang*); "For the back and waist, seek Weizhong" (from *Si Zong Xue Ge*). It treats inability to rise due to lumbar pain, heaviness pulling on the spine causing soreness, wind-epilepsy and painful spasms making movement difficult, irregular wind-bi, febrile diseases with stiff knees unable to flex or extend; needling brings immediate health (Ma Danyang's Twelve Acupoints Song).

Heyang (BL57) is located 4 cun below Weizhong. Needle slightly deeper, 6 fen; moxa 5 moxibustion cones.
Indications: Rigid lumbar and spine pulling into abdominal pain, heat in the medial thigh, soreness and swelling, cold hernia, testicular asymmetry, continuous metrorrhagia and leukorrhea in women. ○ Combined with Jiaoxin (KI8) it treats qi deficiency and bleeding in women (from *Baizheng Fu*).

Chengjin (BL56) is located 2 cun below Heyang. Moxa 3 cones; needling is prohibited.
Indications: Cold bi, rigidity of the back and waist, axillary swelling, constipation, five types of hemorrhoids, heel pain pulling into the lower abdomen, spasms, cholera, nasal congestion and epistaxis. ○ For cholera and spasms, moxa 50 cones (from *Qianjin Fang*).

Chengshan (BL58) is located 8.5 cun below Weizhong. Needle 7 fen; moxa 5 to 49 cones, though moxibustion is less effective than needling.
Indications: Head heat, epistaxis, alternating chills and fever, epilepsy, hernia, abdominal pain, hemorrhoidal swelling, hematochezia, lumbar and back pain, knee swelling, calf soreness, heel pain, cholera with spasms, tremors, inability to walk or stand. For cases with pathogenic heat, apply the reducing method. ○ For spasms, moxa according to age in cones; this is miraculous. For cholera, moxa 100 cones (from *Qianjin Fang*). Combined with Changqiang (GV1) moxa is best for hemorrhoids (from *Yulong Fu*). Yinlingquan (SP9) treats chest and hypochondriac fullness; combined with this point, appetite returns naturally. Also combined with Yuji (LU10) and Kunlun (BL60) to treat spasms and vertigo, which subside immediately (from *Xi Hong Fu*). Treats spasms and chronic hemorrhoids (from *Lingguang Fu*). Needling Changqiang combined with Chengshan effectively treats fresh intestinal wind bleeding (from *Baizheng Fu*). Combined with the inner malleolus tip it treats spasms and blurred vision; combined with Yinjiao (CV7) it treats chest and diaphragm stuffiness, improving appetite (from *Tianxing Mi Jue*). It effectively treats lumbar pain, hemorrhoids, difficult defecation, foot-qi (Hong Kong foot), knee swelling, cold sensation in both feet, acid soreness turning into epidemic fevers, tremors, malaria, aversion to cold, cholera, and spasms; needling brings immediate peace (Ma Danyang's Twelve Acupoints Song).

Feiyang (BL59) is located 5.5 cun above Kunlun. Needle 3 fen; moxa 3 cones.
Indications: Hemorrhoidal pain preventing sitting or standing, leg soreness and swelling preventing standing, joint wind preventing flexion and extension, epilepsy, cold malaria, dizziness of head and eyes, rebellious qi. ○ For excess-type malaria, there is lumbar and back pain; for deficiency-type, there is epistaxis; Feiyang governs these (from *Qianjin Fang*). Combined with Zhizheng (SI7) it treats dizziness (from *Baizheng Fu*).

Fuyang (BL59) is located 3 cun above Kunlun. Needle 5 fen, retain for seven breaths; moxa 3 cones (or 7 cones).
Indications: Cholera with spasms, lumbar pain preventing standing, pain in the hip and thigh, wei-jue (weakness and cold extremities), wind-bi with numbness, heavy head and headache, occasional chills and fever, inability to raise the four limbs, inability to flex or extend.

Kunlun (BL60) is located 0.5 cun behind the lateral malleolus, in the depression above the calcaneus where the fine artery pulses. Needle 3 fen, retain for seven breaths; moxa 3 cones.
Indications: Pain in the lumbosacral region, foot-qi (Hong Kong foot), swelling and pain of the feet preventing walking, headache, nasal congestion and epistaxis, stiffness of the shoulder and back, coughing and wheezing, vertigo, swelling and pain of the yin organs, dystocia, retained placenta, infantile epilepsy with convulsions. ○ Combined with Shenmai (BL62) and Taixi (KI3) it effectively treats foot swelling (from *Yulong Fu*). It stops wheezing and cures foot-qi (Hong Kong foot) (from *Lingguang Fu*). It treats lumbosacral pain, foot pain preventing walking, shoulder and back stiffness; moxa 7 cones. It also treats infantile scrotal swelling; moxa 3 cones, cone size like a wheat grain (from *Shennong Jing*). Combined with Yuji (LU10) and Chengshan (BL58) it treats spasms and vertigo, subsiding immediately (from *Xi Hong Fu*). For retained placenta, needle the Foot-Taiyang channel 4 fen deep; the point is one cun posterior to the lateral malleolus in a hollow area, likely referring to this point. It also governs malaria with excessive sweating, lumbar pain preventing bending or straightening, eyes feeling as if protruding, neck feeling as if being pulled. Kunlun governs these. Combined with Weizhong (BL40) it treats connected lumbar and back pain (from *Qianjin Fang*). It treats hemiplegia (effective prescriptions). It treats spasms, lumbosacral pain, heavy arms extending to headache in the yin region, acute stiffness of the spine and back, sudden dyspnea rushing to the heart, inability to move feet or walk causing groaning. To seek peace, find this point for needling. Additional indications: blurred vision as if eyes are protruding, head heat, epistaxis, abdominal distension and pain preventing breathing, cholera with diarrhea, wind-epilepsy with locked jaw, infantile scrotal swelling, vertigo, spasms, vomiting, corpse-jue, evil invasion, sudden knee pain (Ma Danyang's Twelve Acupoints Song).

Pugen (BL61) is located 2 cun directly below Kunlun, on the edge of the heel. Needle slightly deeper, 3 fen; retain for seven breaths; moxa 7 cones.
Indications: Lumbar pain, foot flaccidity and inability to grasp, heel pain, cholera with spasms, vomiting, corpse-jue, epilepsy, delirium seeing ghosts, knee pain. ○ For posterior heel pain, seek Pugen (from *Lingguang Fu*).

Shenmai (BL62) is located on the edge of the foot directly below Jinmen. Needle 3 fen; retain for seven breaths; moxa 3 cones.
Indications: Wind-induced vertigo, epilepsy, lumbar and foot pain, cold and soreness in the knees preventing sitting, feeling as if on a rocking boat or cart, rebellious qi, inability to flex and extend legs and feet, qi-blood pain in women, foot-qi (Hong Kong foot) with redness and swelling (reduce); if numb and weak, reduce first then tonify. ○ For lumbar pain, moxa 5 cones (from *Shennong Jing*). Combined with Taixi (KI3) and Kunlun (BL60) it effectively treats foot swelling (from *Yulong Fu*). Combined with Jinmen (BL63) it treats head-wind and headache (from *Biao You Fu*). It dispels cold and heat, lateral and frontal head-wind, palpitations, tinnitus, epistaxis, chest fullness; for numbness (deficiency) tonify; for pain (excess) reduce by迎 (meeting the flow) (from *Lan Jiang Fu*). Yang Qiao, Yin Qiao, Yang Ling, and Yin Ling are four points used for foot-qi (Hong Kong foot); combined with Zusanli (ST36) they treat foot-qi (Hong Kong foot) and remove various disorders of the waist (from *Lingguang Fu*). This is named Gui Lu; use fire-needle at the fifth session to treat evil-induced mania (from *Qianjin Fang*).

Jinmen (BL63) is located directly below the lateral malleolus. Needle 1 fen; moxa 3 cones (or needle 3 fen, moxa 7 cones, cone size like a wheat grain).
Indications: Cholera with spasms, corpse-jue, epilepsy, hernia, knee soreness preventing standing, infantile open mouth and shaking head, opisthotonos. ○ Combined with Qiuxu (GB40) it resolves spasms (from *Baizheng Fu*). Combined with Shenmai (BL62) it treats head-wind and headache (from *Tong Xuan Fu*).

Jinggu (BL64) is located 3 cun anterior to Shenmai. Needle 3 fen; retain for seven breaths; moxa 7 cones.
Indications: Lumbar and spinal pain as if broken, inability to flex the thigh, stiff neck unable to look back, tendon contraction, fearfulness, malaria with chills and fever, vertigo, redness and ulceration of the inner canthus, headache, nasal congestion and epistaxis, epilepsy and manic running.

Shugu (BL65) is located 2 cun anterior to Jinggu, on the lateral side of the little toe, posterior to the fifth metatarsophalangeal joint. Needle 3 fen; retain for three breaths; moxa 3 cones.
Indications: Intestinal rumbling and diarrhea, malaria, hemorrhoids, epilepsy, carbuncles and sores on the back, headache, vertigo, redness and pain of the inner canthus, deafness, lumbar and knee pain, stiff neck unable to look back. ○ Combined with Zusanli (ST36) needling treats stiff neck with swelling and pain, heavy body, and lumbar paralysis (from *Taiyi Ge*). Connected to Tianzhu (BL10) it treats stiff neck with aversion to wind (from *Baizheng Fu*). It treats wind-heat, infantile erythema, and red ulcers of both eyes (Qin Chengzu).

Tonggu (BL66) is located on the lateral side of the little toe, anterior to the proximal interphalangeal joint, anterior to the fifth metatarsophalangeal joint, at the crease of the foot edge. Needle 2 fen; retain for five breaths; moxa 3 cones.
Indications: Headache, vertigo, neck pain, nasal congestion, fearfulness, blurred vision, accumulation of fluid retention, undigested food, yawning. ○ For various accumulations and fluid retention, chest fullness, and indigestion, moxa Tonggu 50 cones (from *Qianjin Fang*).

Zhiyin (BL67) is located on the lateral side of the little toe, 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail (width of a leek leaf). Needle 1 fen; retain for five breaths; moxa 3 or 5 cones.
Indications: Wind-cold, heavy head, nasal congestion, eye pain, corneal opacity, chest and hypochondriac pain, spasms, cold malaria with no sweat, vexation, heat under the feet, difficult urination, seminal emission, pulse-bi starting from the little toe, radiating up and down. ○ Combined with Wuyu (ST15) it treats generalized itching and pain, specifically treating knee and foot swelling (from *Baizheng Fu*). Specifically treats knee and foot swelling (from *Xi Hong Fu*). It also treats breech presentation with hands emerging first; when talismans and medicines fail, moxa the tip of the right little toe 3 cones, size like a wheat grain; fire-moxa induces immediate delivery.