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POINT: KI-7 (KIDNEY-7) 

NAME: FULIU

English: Returning Current
Also Known As: Returning Column
Returned Stream
Repeated Current
Returning Flow

LOCATION:

  • On the medial aspect of the lower leg, in the depression two cun superior to KI-3 Taixi, on the anterior border of the achilles tendon.

NEEDLING:

  • Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun
  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 to 0.7 cun
  • Straight insertion 1 to 1.5 cun
    Sensation of local distention and soreness, possibly a numb sensation extending to the bottom of the foot
  • Moxibustion is applicable

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Jing-River point of the Kidney channel
  • Metal point of the Kidney channel
  • tonification point of the Kidney channel
  • Traversing point of the kidney channel
  • Mother point of the Kidney channel

ACTIONS:

  • Benefits the Kidneys
  • Tonifies the Kidneys (Qi, Yin and Yang)
  • Regulates the water passages
  • Treats edema
  • Regulates sweating
  • Tonifies Wei Qi
  • Drains Dampness
  • Resolves Dampness
  • Clears Damp-Heat
  • Strengthens the lumbar region
  • Regulates Kidney Qi
  • Regulates the Bladder
  • Regulates menstruation
  • Moistens Dryness
  • Endocrine point (testes, thyroid, ovaries, adrenals, hormones suprarenals)

INDICATIONS:

  • The five types of edema
  • Swelling of the four limbs
  • Swelling of the lower limb
  • Difficult urination
  • Dark urine
  • The five types of urinary dysfunction (Lin)
  • Blood painful urinary dysfunction (Lin)
  • Dry tongue
  • Parched mouth
  • Dry tongue with Stomach Heat
  • Curled tongue with inability to speak
  • Pain in the nostrils
  • Epistaxis
  • Tooth decay
  • Withered, yellow complexion
  • Propensity to anger with incessant talking
  • Propensity to laughter
  • Prone to anger
  • Cold legs
  • Hot and Cold bones (alternating)
  • Leukorrhea
  • Absence of sweating
  • Insanity
  • Borborygmus
  • Ascites
  • Swelling of the abdomen with drum distention
  • Peritonitis
  • Beriberi
  • Urination feels like passing sparks of fire
  • Urinary tract infection
  • Violent pain inside the Kidneys and spine; cannot bend over
  • Neurasthenics
  • Cholera
  • Lower Jiao wasting and thirsting
  • Hyperthyroidism with excessive sweating
  • Heatstroke with excessive sweating
  • Gastric ulcers
  • Cold sweats
  • Exhaustion
  • Paraplegia
  • Prolapse of Bladder
  • Abnormal sweating
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Night sweating
  • Incessant night sweats
  • Ceaseless sweating
  • Fever with anhidrosis
  • Diarrhea
  • Abdominal distention with borborygmus
  • Dysenteric disorder
  • Red dysentery (Bloody stools)
  • Pus and Blood in the stool
  • Heavy feeling in the rectum after diarrhea
  • Bleeding hemorrhoids
  • Constipation
  • Seminal emission
  • Menorrhagia
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Lumbar pain
  • Pain of the lumbar vertebrae
  • Lumbar pain due to Qi Stagnation
  • Atrophy disorder of the leg
  • Paralysis of the foot
  • Muscular atrophy of the foot
  • Pulseless syndrome
  • Nephritis
  • Orchitis
  • Tidal fevers
  • Common Cold without sweat
  • Neuralgia of the lumbar muscles preventing dorsiflexion and ventriflexion
  • Myelitis
  • Asthenopia (cannot see clearly)
  • Vision problems
  • Malarial disorders
  • Urethritis
  • Coma
  • Tonsillitis
  • Renal atrophy
  • Arterial hypofunction
  • Cold feet and bones
  • Weakness of limbs after shock
  • Problems arising from Intestinal parasites

COMBINATIONS:

REN-9
Shuifen

REN-8
Shenque

SP-4
Gongsun
LIV-4
Zhongfeng
SP-3
Taibai
REN-9
Shuifen

Edema

Edema with Qi distention and fullness

Drum distention

DU-14
Dazhui
UB-43 (moxa)
Gaohuangshu

LI-4
Hegu

PC-3
Quze
LU-10
Yuji
SI-1
Shaoze
DU-23
Shangxing
LIV-8
Ququan
UB-60
Kunlun
 GB-43
Xiaxi
GB-44
Zuqiaoyin

Spontaneous sweating

Little sweating (reinforce LI-4 and reduce KI-7)

Copious sweating (reduce LI-4 and reinforce KI-7)

Stomach ulcers

Absence of sweating

ST-44
Neiting
LI-4
Hegu
M-HN-30
Bailao

KI-2
Rangu

REN-2
Qugu
LIV-3
Taichong
REN-4
Guanyuan
SP-6
Sanyinjiao
ST-25
Tianshu

Injury by Cold with absence of sweating (reduce Ki-7 and ST-44, reinforce the others)

Injury by Cold with sweating (reinforce KI-7 and reduce ST-44 and LI-4)

Drooling

Red and white leukorrhea (use seven cones of moxa on REN-2 and one hundred cones of moxa on ST-25 and SP-6)

UB-40
Weizhong

UB-11
Dazhu
GB-39
Xuanzhong
UB-62
Shenmai
ST-45
Lidui
UB-23
Shenshu

UB-62
Shenmai
ST-45
Lidui

Pain of the lumbar spine

Coldness and pain of the bone marrow

Cold sensations of the legs

LIV-3
Taichong

REN-9
Shuifen
KI-9
Shuifen
ST-36
Zusanli
M-HN-13
Yiming

LIV-3
Taichong
UB-35
Huiyang

Breast pain

Cirrhosis of the Liver

Blood in the stool

HT-6
Yinxi

 

 

Kidney Yin Deficiency sweating

 

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • Contraindicated after the eighth month of pregnancy

NOTES:

  • This point is one of the foremost points to strengthen the Kidney's function of dominating Body fluids, regulating urination. and controlling sweating.
  • This point is indicated for various types of bleeding, including hematuria, hemafecia, epistaxis, uterine bleeding and menorrhagia.
  • Moxa this point and the Dan tian for Blood Lin.
  • This point is better at tonifying Kidney Yang than KI-3 Taixi.
  • This point also works on the Lungs, (fluid must return to whence it comes)