Well (gold) point. Lingshu‧Genjie: "Shaoyang is rooted in Qiaoyin". Lingshu‧Weiqi: "The root of foot shaoyang is between the orifices and yin."

[Origin]

The cave is located at the end of the toe, corresponding to the top and bottom of Touqiaoyin (GB11), hence its name. In order to distinguish it from the point of the same name (Touqiaoyin (GB11)) in Benjing on the head, Zhenjiu Zishengjing is named "foot".

[Location]

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

• Lingshu‧Benshu: "The end of the second finger of the little finger of the foot";
• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "Remove claw nails like leek leaves ";
• Yixue Rumen: "Outside of the fourth finger end of the foot." That is, the lateral side of the fourth toe, a depression 1 minute behind the lateral corner of the toenail contour.

[Anatomy]

• Nerve: dorsal toe nerve.
• Blood vessels: The arterial and venous network formed by the dorsal toe arteries and veins and the metatarsus stone artery.

[Manipulation]

Puncture shallowly 0.2 to 0.3 inches. moxa cone moxibustion 3 to 5 times, moxa stick warm moxibustion for 10 to 15 minutes.

[Efficacy]

Relieving heat, relieving threats, relieving stuffy orifices.

• Classical: hypochondriac pain, coughing and sweating, cold hands and feet, irritability, muscle cramp, headache, pharyngitis, dry tongue, deafness, tinnitus, Yongju, gallbladder Cold, no lying down, nightmares, no lifting of elbows and arms.
• Modern: Biliary ascariasis.

[Recipe]

• pharyngitis Tongue roll and dry mouth: Guanchong (TE1), Shaoze (SI1), Zuqiaoyin (GB44).
• The elbow cannot extend: Shousanli (LI10), Zuqiaoyin (GB44).
• muscle cramp and inability to sweat: Danshu (BL19), Taiyuan (LU9), Kongzui (LU6), Yanglingquan (GB34), Zuqiaoyin (GB44).
• Dreamful nights: Xinshu (BL15), Neiguan (PC6), Shenmen (HT7), Zusanli (ST36), Zuqiaoyin (GB44).