Lose (earth) hole, source point.

[Origin]

Taibai (SP3) is the name of Venus, and each source point of the Yin Meridian is named after "Tai". The point is on the white flesh border, and it belongs to the spleen meridian. The spleen generates metal, hence its name.

[Location]

Taibai (SP3) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "In people with sunken medial core of the foot";
• Shenying Jing: "Dadu (SP2) One inch back, next inch";
• Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "When it is behind the bone of the big finger, the inner side is close to the bone and sinks into the red and white flesh."
• Huangdi Neijing Taisu Yang Shang-shan Note: "The protruding bone is after this section of the big finger and in front of the protruding bone."

[Anatomy]

• Muscle: abductor pollicis.
• Nerve: The anastomosis between the saphenous nerve and the branches of the superficial peroneal nerve.
• Vessels: dorsalis pedis venous network, medial plantar artery and medial tarsal artery branches.

[Manipulation]

Perpendicular insertion 0.5~1 inch. Can moxibustion

[Efficacy]

Supporting the spleen soil, and the middle jiao, regulates qi movement and helps transportation.

• Classical: Rebing Headache and face pain, feeling full and stuffy, unable to lie down, abdominal distension and fullness, pain in both jaws, inability to digest food, distension of chest and ribs, borborygmus, and heart pain. , vomiting, cholera against cold, difficulty in defecation, diarrhea, pus and blood, hemorrhoid fistula disease, tympanites, lumpago, not prone, heavy body and bone soreness, athlete's foot, redness and swelling.
• Modern: Diabetes.

[Recipe]

• abdominal distension and fullness, tympanites abdominal middle qi Daman: Taibai (SP3), Gongsun (SP4).
• Bowel sounds: Taibai (SP3), Gongsun (SP4), Dachangshu (BL25), Sanjiaoshu (BL22).
• intestinal abscess pain: Taibai (SP3), Xiangu (ST43), Dachangshu (BL25).
• abdominal distension and fullness: Taibai (SP3), Fuliu (KI7), Zusanli (ST36).