Well (gold) point. Lingshu‧Genjie: "Taiyang (EX-HN5) is rooted in Zhiyin (BL67) and knotted with Mingmen (GV4). Mingmen (GV4) is the eye."

[Origin]

The point belongs to foot greater yang bladder meridian (BL) at the end of the sixty-seven points, foot taiyang meridian is connected from foot shaoyin to foot shaoyin, where yang ends and yin rises, hence the name.

[Location]

Zhiyin (BL67) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Lingshu‧Benshu: "On the end of the little finger of the foot";
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "On the outside of the little finger of the foot, remove the claw nails "Like a leek leaf"; that is, the 1 minute depression behind the lateral corner of the nail of the little toe.

[Anatomy]

• Nerves: Proper nerve of the lateral metatarsus of the toe, lateral cutaneous nerve of the dorsum of the foot.
• Blood vessels: The arterial network formed by the dorsal digital artery and the proper artery on the side of the digital metatarsus.

[Manipulation]

Puncture 0.1 to 0.2 inches shallowly or cause bleeding. Commonly used moxa sticks are warm moxibustion for 15 to 20 minutes, and moxa cone moxibustion for 3 to 5 minutes.

[Efficacy]

dispelling wind: heat, beneficial to the head and neck, and easy delivery.

• Classical: heavy head, epistaxis, acne, inability to sweat, vexation, nuchal pain, eye nebula, difficulty urinating, chest hypochondriac pain, dry vomiting, hernia, dead fetus, placenta, woman's transverse Childbirth, itching, swollen ankles and knees, heat under the feet, wind-cold, vessel impediment from the little toe up and down the chest and flanks, pain in the irregular parts, seminal emission.
• Modern: malposition of fetus, prolonged labor, retained placenta.

[Recipe]

• There are many painful itches: Wuyi (ST15), Zhiyin (BL67).
• seminal emission: Zhongji (CV3), Ququan (LR8), Zhiyin (BL67).
• Headache: Fengchi (GB20), Taiyang (EX-HN5), Zhiyin (BL67).