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POINT: UB-67 (URINARY BLADDER-67)  

NAME: ZHIYIN

English: Reaching Yin
Also Known As: End of Yin
Extremity of Yin

LOCATION:

  • On the dorsal aspect of the little toe, at the junction of the lines drawn along the lateral border of the nail and the base of the nail, approximately 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail.
  • Located about 0.1 cun from the lateral corner of the fifth toenail.
  • On the little toe, 0.1 cun from the lower lateral corner of the cuticle of the toenail.
  • On the lateral side of the small toe, about 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail.

NEEDLING:

  • Perpendicular or oblique insertion directed proximally 0.1 to 0.2 cun, causing local pain or prick to bleed.
  • Puncture superficially 0.1 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Jing-Well point
  • Metal point
  • Tonification point
  • Exit point

ACTIONS:

  • Expels Wind
  • Clears the head and eyes
  • Clears the brain
  • Turns the fetus
  • Facilitates labor
  • Regulates pregnancy and childbirth
  • Removes obstructions from the channel
  • Invigorates the Blood

INDICATIONS:

  • Vertex headache
  • Occipital headache
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Neck pain
  • Nasal congestion
  • Epistaxis
  • Eye pain
  • Pain of the inner canthus
  • Superficial visual obstruction
  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Pain of the lateral costal region and chest
  • Agitation of the Heart
  • Malarial disorders with no sweating
  • Generalized body itching
  • Parietal headache
  • Lochioschesis
  • Retained placenta
  • Stroke
  • Infantile convulsions
  • Patient has physically given up
  • Difficulty with all Internal secretions
  • Every aspect of the endocrine and lymphatic system
  • Intercostal neuralgia
  • Anhydrosis
  • Nervousness
  • Headache
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Epistaxis
  • Dermatosis
  • Itching over the whole body
  • Hemiplegia
  • Pain at the ankle joints
  • Irritability
  • Difficult urination
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • Retention of the placenta
  • Malposition of the fetus
  • Delayed labor
  • Prolonged labor
  • Difficult labor
  • Difficult urination
  • Painful urinary dysfunction
  • Seminal emission
  • Cold malaria
  • Wind-Cold starting from the little toe
  • Anhydrosis
  • Heat in the soles of the feet
  • Clonic spasm
  • Swelling of the knees
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Clear nasal discharge
  • Dim vision
  • Nebula
  • Membrane on the eye
  • Fear
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Total Deficiency or over saturation of Blood
  • Hormonal secretions
  • Spinal trouble
  • Bi syndrome
  • Cramps
  • Ophthalmalgia
  • Nervous headache
  • Blocked nose
  • All types of skin lesions
  • Syncope
  • Emergency care
  • Swelling of the feet
  • Pain sometimes in the chest and sometimes in the flanks

COMBINATIONS:

ST-36
Zusanli

LIV-8
Ququan
REN-3
Zhongji

REN-3
Zhongji
LIV-5
Ligou
UB-36
Chengfu
SP-7
Lougu

Hastens delivery

Seminal emission

Difficult urination and seminal emission

ST-15
Wuyi

SP-9
Yinlingquan
GB-30
Huantiao
GB-38
Yangfu
KI-3
Taixi

GB-30
Huantiao

Itching with much pain

Paralysis of the lower extremity

Pain of the chest and lateral costal region that changes location

DU-20
Baihui
SI-3
Houxi

GB-20
Fengchi
M-HN-9
Taiyang

 

Vertex headache

Occipital headache

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • Needling is contraindicated during pregnancy.

NOTES:

  • This point clears fullness and Heat from the opposite end of the channel.
  • It is most effective for acute conditions.
  • It relieves pain anywhere in the body.
  • It is best known for its ability to reposition the fetus (used with moxa - once the fetus has turned, discontinue moxa).
  • This is a general equilibrium point.
  • This point affects all hormones in general, but especially the ovaries.
  • It rules all disorders of the head and face.