Liver back transport point. Lingshu-Weiqi: "foot jueyin...marked in Beishu."

bubble_chart Etymology

Yu, Tongshu. The acupoint corresponds to the liver and is the back transport point of the liver.

bubble_chart Location

Ganshu (BL18) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Lingshu-Beishu: "Between the nine jiao (vertebrae),...it is three cun away from the spine."
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "One and a half cun on each side below the ninth vertebra."

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Muscles: Between the latissimus dorsi, longissimus and iliocostalis (inside the chest is the lower lobe of the lung).
• Nerve: The medial branch of the posterior branch of the ninth or tenth thoracic nerve is the cutaneous branch, and the deep layer is the lateral branch of the posterior branch.
• Vessel: medial branch of the dorsal branch of the ninth intercostal artery and vein.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Oblique insertion 0.5~0.8 cun downward or beside the spine. It should not be too deep to avoid accidentally entering the chest and injuring the lungs. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 7 times, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.

bubble_chart Efficacy

soothing liver, clearing heat and dispelling dampness, nourishing blood and improving vision.

• Classical: liver distension, jaundice, liver wind, hypochondriac pain, muscle cramps and pain, vertigo, epilepsy, shoulder pain, panic, epistaxis, hematemesis, cough, chest pain, abdominal distension and fullness, Indigestion, blurred vision, nyctalopia, bluish blindness (optic atrophy), eye discharge, canthus, abdominal mass, sores, scrofula.
• Modern: viral hepatitis, Dannang (EX-LE6) inflammation, stomach disease, eye disease, intercostal neuralgia, neurasthenia, irregular menstruation, cirrhosis.

bubble_chart Combinations

• liver distension: Ganshu (BL18), Taichong (LR3).
• Less abdominal distension and fullness: Ganshu (BL18), Baohuang (BL53).
• bluish blindness (optic atrophy): Ganshu (BL18), Shangyang (LI1).
• The dim light: Ganshu (BL18), Zusanli (ST36).
• Pan eyes: Ganshu (BL18), Shaoze (SI1).
• Unknown: Ganshu (BL18), Mingmen (GV4).
• Acute infectious hepatitis: Yiming (EX-HN14), Ganshu (BL18), Zhongfeng (LR4).
• Cirrhosis: Ganshu (BL18), Pishu (BL20), Qimen (LR14), Dushu (BL16), Xuehai (SP10), Yanglingquan (GB34), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
• Gallstone pain: Ganshu (BL18), Danshu (BL19), Wangu (SI4), Yanglingquan (GB34), Zulinqi (GB41), Xingjian (LR2).
• amenorrhea: Ganshu (BL18), Qihai (CV6), Sanyinjiao (SP6).