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POINT: GB-38 (GALL BLADDER-38)

NAME: YANGFU

English: Yang Assistance
Also Known As: Yang Support
Yang Assistant
Yang's Assistant
Yang Aid
Yang's Help

LOCATION:

  • Located 4 cun superior to the vertex of the externalmall malleolus on the anterior border of the fibula.
  • 4 cun above the tip of the external malleolus, slightly anterior to the border of the fibula, between the m. extensor digitorum longus and m. Peroneus brevis.
  • On the lateral aspect of the lower leg, 4 cun superior to the prominence of the lateral malleolus, at the anterior border of the fibula.
    Note: this point can be found at the junction of the upper three quarters and the lower quarter of the distance between the popliteal crease and the tip of the lateral malleolus.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 to 0.7 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Perpendicular insertion 0.7 to 1 cun.
  • Straight insertion 1 to 2 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Jing-River point
  • Fire point
  • Sedation point

ACTIONS:

  • Subdues Liver Yang
  • Clears Heat
  • Resolves Damp-Heat
  • Clears Liver Fire
  • Clears Gall Bladder channel Heat
  • Harmonizes the Shao Yang
  • Benefits the sinews and bones
  • Activates the channel
  • Alleviates pain

INDICATIONS:

  • Sensation of being in water up to one's waist
  • Edema above the knee
  • Joint pain and weakness
  • Bi syndrome
  • Somber face
  • Subclavicular pain and swelling
  • Shivering
  • Pain in the chest and flanks
  • Pain in the hip and knee
  • Blue-green complexion
  • Throat Bi
  • Sighing
  • Alternating chills and fever
  • Sweating with Cold shivering
  • Wind Bi with wandering pain and numbness of the joints
  • Pain and numbness of the lateral side of the lower limb
  • Lumbar pain like a small hammer in the middle of the back
  • Paralysis of the lower limb
  • Malarial disorders
  • Hemiplegia
  • Unilateral headache with melancholy
  • Outer canthus pain and redness
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Neck, chest and hypochondriac pain
  • Constipation
  • Knee pain
  • Generalized aches and pain with stiffness
  • Chronic migraine headaches
  • Pain in the axillary region
  • Scrofula
  • Lumbar pain
  • Pain in the chest, hypochondriac region and lateral aspect of the lower extremities
  • Contracted sinews
  • Pain of the hundred joints
  • Lowe limb Bi
  • Leg Qi
  • Severe lumbar pain
  • Pain of the lateral malleolus
  • Arthritis of the knee

COMBINATIONS:

GB-41
Zulinqi
GB-42
Diwuhui
UB-39
Weiyang
UB-62
Shenmai
PC-1
Tianchi

or

GB-40
Qiuxu
GB-41
Zulinqi

GB-43
Xiaxi
LIV-3
Taichong

HT-3
Shaohai
PC-1
Tianchi
LIV-13
Zhangmen
GB-41
Zulinqi
SJ-6
Zhigou
GB-21
Jianjing
LI-20
Shousanli

Swelling of the axilla

Swelling and saber lumps of the axilla

Scrofula

LU-5
Chize

or

SJ-10
Tianjing
LU-5
Chize
HT-3
Shaohai
UB-40
Weizhong

GB-35
Yangjiao
GB-34
Yanglingquan

GB-30
Huantiao
SP-9
Yinlingquan
KI-3
Taixi
UB-67
Zhiyin

Wind Bi

Bone Bi

Numbness of the hip joint and knee

Paralysis of the lower extremity

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This is an important distal point for chronic one-sided migraine headache due to Liver Fire or Liver Yang Rising.