Name
外丘
- Wai Qiu
- Outer Mound
- External Hill
- Altar of Heaven and Earth
Location
7 CUN above the external malleolus, in front of the fibula
Nature
Xi-Cleft point of Gall Bladder
Actions
- Unblocks the Gall Bladder Channel
- Acute condition: pain along the channel pathway, lateral side of body, hypochondrium
- Acute condition of the viscus: biliary colic, calms pain
- Activates Qi-Blood
- Skin pain in this area: moxibustion
Treatment
- Needling: 0.5 CUN
- Moxibustion