Jing-well (metal) point. Lingshu‧Genjie: "The root of Shaoyang is at Qiaoyin". Lingshu‧Weiqi: "The root of foot shaoyang is between Qiaoyin."

bubble_chart Etymology

"Zu" (足), foot; "qiao" (竅), orifice . The point is located at the end of toe, corresponding to Touqiaoyin (GB11) on head, hence the name. To distinguish it from the homonymous point on head (Touqiaoyin), Zhenjiu Zisheng Jing added "Zu" (足, foot) to its name.

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Zuqiaoyin (GB44) point
(qouted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Lingshu‧Benshu: "At the tip of little toe and second toe";
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "One leek leaf width from the corner of toenail";
• Yixue Rumen: "On the lateral side of the tip of fourth toe." Specifically, on the lateral side of fourth toe, 0.1 cun posterior to the lateral corner of toenail, in the depression.

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Nerve: dorsal digital nerve.
• Vessels: dorsal digital artery and vein, and arterial and venous network formed by plantar metatarsal artery.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Shallow insertion 0.2 to 0.3 cun. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 5 times, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Clear heat, benefit flanks, open orifices.

• Classical: hypochondriac pain with inability to rest, coughing with sweating, cold hands and feet, irritability and fever, cramp, headache, pharyngitis, dry and curled tongue, deafness, tinnitus, Carbuncle and gangrene, gallbladder cold with inability to sleep, nightmares, inability to lift the elbow and arm..
• Modern: biliary ascariasis.

bubble_chart Combinations

• Pharyngitis, curled tongue and dry mouth: Guanchong (TE1), Shaoze (SI1), Zuqiaoyin (GB44).
• Spasms and inability to extend elbow and arm: Shousanli (LI10), Zuqiaoyin (GB44).
• Cramps and absence of sweating: Danshu (BL19), Taiyuan (LU9), Kongzui (LU6), Yanglingquan (GB34), Zuqiaoyin (GB44).
• Excessive dreaming during sleep: Xinshu (BL15), Neiguan (PC6), Shenmen (HT7), Zusanli (ST36), Zuqiaoyin (GB44).