triple energizer lower sea point. Lingshu‧Xieqi Cangfu Bingxing: "triple energizer merged into Weiyang (BL39)".

bubble_chart Etymology

Wei means bending; Yang means the outside. The point is located in the middle of the knee bend and outside the Weizhong (BL40) point, hence the name.

bubble_chart Location

Weiyang (BL39) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Lingshu‧Benshu: "In the popliteus and outside the joint",
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing added: "between the two tendons";
• Yixue Rumen: "Weizhong (BL40) outside two cun";
• Zhenjiu Juying: "Chengfu (BL36) Next foot six cun".
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing said: "Chengfu (BL36) lower six cun", which seems to be defective due to fistula disease.
• Yixue Gangmu: "Weiyang (BL39) is six cun below Chengfu (BL36). Based on the current scriptures, it is said that one foot is six cun. ”

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Muscle: On the lateral side is the biceps femoris tendon. The deep layer is the lateral head of the gastrocnemius muscle, the initial tendon of the popliteus muscle, and the metatarsus muscle.
• Nerves: posterior femoral cutaneous nerve, common peroneal nerve.
• Vessels: lateral arteries and veins above the knee.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Perpendicular insertion 1～1.5 cun. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 5 times, moxibustion with moxa stick for 5 to 10 minutes.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Relax the muscles and benefit the lower jiao.

• Classical: back pain, chest fullness, body heat, abdominal distension and fullness, impotence, epilepsy, scabies, stranguria, ischuria, armpit swelling and pain, enuresis, lower limb spasms, Hemorrhoids, muscle cramp.
• Modern: chylous stranguria, gastrocnemius spasm.

bubble_chart Combinations

• Draining urine: Zhishi (BL52), Zhongliao (BL33), Weiyang (BL39).
• Axillary swelling: Tianchi (PC1), Weiyang (BL39).
• chylous stranguria: Sanjiaoshu (BL22), Pangguangshu (BL28), Weiyang (BL39), Zhongji (CV3), Sanyinjiao (SP6).