Meaning

Moving Between.

Localization

On the dorsum of the foot between the first and second toe, proximal to the margin of the web.

Functions

Removes liver fire, regulates Qi, removes stagnation.

Indications

- Reproductive system: uterine hemorrhage, dysmenorrhea, algomenoreya, leucorrhoea (inhibited spleen), abundant menstruation in the setting of liver heat, missed periods, phimosis, balanoposthitis, swelling and pain of external genitalia (dampness-heat syndrome), condylomata, vaginismus with back pain, postpartum abdominal pain, pain in the penis in the setting of gonorrhoea (fever pushes blood actively).
- Affection of the throat: dry throat, sore throat, tubercular cough. The liver fire burns lung Yin, while the back wall of the pharynx is affected.
- Dental diseases: toothache, gingivitis.
- Digestive system: feeling of fullness and pain in the stomach area, hiccups, diarrhea (liver heat depresses spleen), haematemesis (liver fire).
- Eye disease: visual snow, swelling and eye redness, headache, twilight vision disorders, decrement in visual acuity, dry eyes.
- Disorders of the mind: heart attack or after it (blossoming of liver fire), hysteria, psychosis, emotional lability, fright in children with disorientation, strong anger, mild temper, anger, feeling of severe discomfort in the setting of nerve strain, epilepsy, sleep disturbance, headache, sexual dysfunction in the setting of nervous stress: vaginismus, mental impotence, wedding-night syndrome, sexual neuroses.
- Channel diseases: pain in dorslim of foot, irradiating pain from back pain to dorslim of foot, inguinodynia, overflow chest.
- Features: mastitis, heart pain, heart palpitations, hypertension in the setting of rising liver fire. Cold in liver channel: hernias, cold in penis.

Needling Method

Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 - 0.8 cun. Cauterization in hernias in the setting of cold in the channel.