Rank, order; edge, edge. This point is located at the bottom of the second lateral line of the foot taiyang bladder meridian (BL) on the back, hence the name.

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Zhibian (BL54) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

Buttocks, 3 cun lateral to the median sacral crest, and the 4th posterior sacral foramen (Xialiao (BL34) ) and at the level below the twenty-first vertebra, in the greater sciatic foramen.

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "In the center of the 21st vertebra, three cun on each side."

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• Muscles: gluteus maximus, lower edge of piriformis muscle.
• Nerve: The deep layer is the origin of the inferior gluteal nerve and the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve, and the lateral side is the sciatic nerve.
• Vessels: inferior gluteal artery and vein.

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Perpendicular insertion 1 to 3 cun. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 to 7 times, moxibustion with moxa stick for 10 to 15 minutes.

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Strengthen the waist and legs, and benefit the lower jiao.

• Classical: Lumbago cannot pitch, cannot lift, vaginal pain, difficulty in urination and defecation, red urine, enuresis, hemorrhoids, leg pain, seminal emission, leukorrhea.
• Modern: low back and leg pain, sciatica, lower limb paralysis, pelvic diseases.

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• Low and leg pain: Zhibian (BL54), Yinmen (BL37), Yanglingquan (GB34).