Name
束骨
- Shu Gu
- Bundle of Sinews
- Fortified Ligature
Location
Behind the metatarsophalangeal joint of the fifth toe, where the skin changes color.
Nature
- Shu-Stream Point
- Child Point
- Drainage Point
Functions
- Unblocks Qi stagnation in the Bladder Channel
- Pain, rigidity of neck, acute torticollis
- Headache, noise in the head
- Lower backache that prevents moving the hip
- Knot in the popliteal fossa and in the calf (as if broken in half)
- Cold with cold feet
- Back full of pustules, cysts, etc: excess fire BL-65 + BL-62
- Haemorrhoids, abscess, boil
Treatment
- Needling: 0.3 CUN