connecting point; one of the eight meridians and eight points, through the thoroughfare vessel (TV).

[Origin]

Named for the branch of collateral vessel. Huangdi Neijing Taisu Yang Shang-shan Note: "The liver wood is the master, the heart fire is the son, the spleen earth is the grandson, and the point is in the Gongsun (SP4) vein, so it is named Gongsun (SP4). "

[Location]

Taichong, Gongsunacupoint cross section
(quoted from "Yan Zhenguo acupoint anatomy")

Gongsun (SP4) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

The medial edge of the foot, the depression antero-inferior to the base of the first metatarsus bone, when Taibai (SP3 ) 1 cun posteriorly, in the abductor pollicis muscle.

• Lingshu‧Jingmai: "Go one inch after this section";
• Yixue Rumen; "Taibai (SP3) "The last inch fell into the middle";
• Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "The red and white flesh."

[Anatomy]

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

[Manipulation]

Perpendicular insertion 0.5~1 inch.

[Efficacy]

Support the spleen and stomach, regulate qi movement, regulate Xuehai (SP10), and thoroughfare vessel (TV).

• Classical: consumptive malaria, no craving for food, excessive Hanre sweating, vomiting, phlegm, chest and diaphragm obstruction, bowel sounds and pain, swelling of the head and face, irritability, madness, excessive fluid retention , tympanites, cholera, heart pain, cold spleen, epigastralgia, hypochondriac pain, inability to digest food, bloody defecation, heat or pain in the soles of the feet, epilepsy.
• Modern: dizziness, chest pain, palpitation, lower abdominal spasm, peptic ulcer, acute and chronic enteritis, dysmenorrheal, retained placenta, numbness and pain in toes.

[Recipe]

• vomiting phlegm saliva, vertigo endless: Gongsun (SP4), Fenglong (ST40), Zhongkui (EX-UE4), Tanzhong (CV17).
• Zhongwan (CV12) Stopped eating and had constant pain and stinging: Gongsun (SP4), Jiexi (ST41), Zhongwan (CV12) ), Sanli.
• Subcostal pain: Gongsun (SP4), Zhigou (TE6), Zhangmen (LR13), Yanglingquan (GB34 ).
• consumptive malaria does not eat: Gongsun (SP4), Neiting (ST44), Lidui (ST45).
• Toe numbness: Gongsun (SP4), Shugu (BL65), Bafeng (EX-LE10).