bubble_chart Etymology "Yin" (陰), shade, concealment; "shi" (市), market, refers to stomach.Suwen-Cijin Lun: "Stomach is like market", Leijing Zhang Jing-yue note: "Stomach receives water and grains, it contains everything, so it is called the market." The point belongs to foot yangming stomach meridian (ST), hence the name.
bubble_chart Location
On the front of thigh, along the line connecting anterior superior iliac spine and lateral side of patella base, 3 cun above patella base.
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "Three cun above knee, below Futu (ST32), as if bowing to reach it."
- Shenying Jing: "Three cun above knee."
bubble_chart Anatomy
- Muscle: between rectus femoris and vastus lateralis.
- Nerve: Anterior cutaneous branch of femoral nerve, lateral femoral cutaneous nerve.
- Vessel: descending branch of the lateral circumflex femoral artery.
bubble_chart Manipulation
Perpendicular insertion 0.5~1 cun. Moxibustion with moxa cone 3 ~ 5 rounds, moxibustion with moxa stick 5 ~ 10 minutes.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Expel cold and damp, benefit knee joint.
- Classical: cold hernia pain, abdominal distension and fullness, flaccidity and lack of qi, weak legs and knees, cold knees, edema in abdomen, cramping of both feet.
- Modern: knee arthritis, arthritis, lateral femoral cutaneous neuritis.
bubble_chart Combinations
- Cold hernia: Yinshi (ST33), Ganshu (BL18).
- Cold hernia and abdominal pain: Yinshi (ST33), Taixi (KI3), Ganshu (BL18).
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