Meaning

Gushing Spring, Bubbling Well.

Localization

On the sole of the foot, between the second and third metatarsal bones, approximately one third of the distance between the base of the second toe and the heel, in a depression formed when the foot is plantar flexed.

Functions

Strengthens kidneys Qi, unblocks channels, quiets the spirit of Shen.

Indications

- Cardiovascular system: feeling intense heat in the heart with anxiety, insomnia, heart palpitations. The main cause of disease, kidney and heart Yin injury, heart is not related to the kidneys.
- Channel diseases: pain of the back and plantar surface of the foot, pain on the inner surface of the thigh, weakness and sensitivity disorder in the lower extremities, back pain.
- Disorders of the mind: hysteria, psychosis, intense joy, and exposure to fears.
- Critical condition: loss of consciousness, apoplexy, sunstroke, epilepsy, coma, shock.
- Urinary system: urinary retention, swelling, urinary incontinence, urinary retention in the postpartum period. Main reason lack of kidney Yang.
- Reproductive system: infertility, psychogenic impotence (emptiness of kidney Yin), true impotence (lack of Yang kidneys), inguinal and inguinoscrotal hernia.
- Digestive system: nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea (kidney Yang and Qi failure syndrome).
- 5 holes diseases: pain in the back of the head and crown, dizziness, black circles under the eyes, rigid tongue, chronic hoarseness of the voice, bleeding from the nose, pain and dryness of the back wall of the throat, decrement in visual acuity, heat or cold in the knees and soles.
- Respiratory system: cough, dyspnea (emptiness of kidney Yang and Qi, kidneys do not take Qi).
- Features: convulsions in children, jaundice.

Needling Method

Puncture perpendicularly 0.2- 0.3 cun. Cauterization.