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POINT: UB-58 (URINARY BLADDER-58)

NAME: FEIYANG

English: Soaring Upwards
Also Known As: Flying Up
Flying Yang
High Position
Fly and Scatter
Flying Tight
Flying High
Soaring

LOCATION:

  • Located 7 cun directly above UB-60 Kunlun, on the posterior border of the fibula approximately 1 cun inferior and lateral to UB-57 Chengshan.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture perpendicularly 0.7 to 1 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Straight insertion 1.5 to 2.5 cun, causing local distention, numbness and soreness, possibly extending downward.
  • Perpendicular or oblique insertion, directed proximally or distally, 1 to 1.5 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Luo-Connecting point

ACTIONS:

  • Removes obstruction from the channel
  • Strengthens the Kidneys
  • Harmonizes the upper and lower
  • Expels Wind from the Tai Yang channel
  • Treats hemorrhoids
  • Alleviates pain

INDICATIONS:

  • Lower back pain
  • Sciatica
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Swelling and pain of hemorrhoids
  • Difficulty getting up
  • Difficulty walking
  • Lassitude and cramps in the legs
  • Trembling
  • Inability to stay upright for a long time
  • Difficulty flexing and extending the toes
  • Eye pain
  • Dyspnea
  • Calm craziness
  • Alternating fever and chills
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Nephritis
  • Beriberi
  • Heat in the head
  • Visual dizziness
  • Pain in the neck and occiput
  • Rhinitis
  • Rhinitis with obstruction and pain of the head and back
  • Mania
  • Heaviness of the body with inability to sit or stand
  • Shivering with inability to sit or stand for long
  • Wind-Predominant Bi of the lower extremities
  • Seizures
  • Dizziness
  • Headache
  • Blurred vision
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Epistaxis
  • Sneezing
  • Weakness of the legs
  • Cystitis
  • Irritable Bladder
  • Irritability
  • Vertigo
  • Epilepsy
  • Back and head pain
  • Pain and weakness of the lower back and knee
  • Pain in the calf
  • Insanity
  • Progressive painful joints
  • Chills and fever
  • Fever with anhidrosis
  • Malaria
  • Malaria with absence of thirst
  • Swelling and pain of the lower limb
  • Bleeding hemorrhoids
  • Coldness of the lower part of the body
  • Wei syndrome of the lower limb

COMBINATIONS:

REN-3
Zhongji
UB-28
Pangguangshu
SP-9
Yinlingquan

SI-5
Yanggu

UB-60
Kunlun
LIV-8
Ququan
SI-2
Qiangu
SI-1
Shaoze
HT-5
Tongli

Cystitis

Dizziness

Eye pain

Headache and dizziness

UB-57
Chengshan
UB-60
Kunlun
UB-64
Jinggu
SP-1
Yinbai

KI-1
Yongchuan
GB-4
Hanyan

ST-23
Taiyi
ST-24
Huaroumen

Heat in the head

Rhinitis with epistaxis

Neck pain

Joint pain

Sweating

Madness and mania with tongue thrusting

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • This is used as a distal point for lower back pain and sciatica.
  • This is a great point for runners. They will run better, with stronger legs and more endurance.
  • This is called the "tirelessness" point.
  • It affects the parathyroids.
  • It brings about well-being, great vitality, and strengthens the body and mind.