Pathway

It starts on the outer part of the big toe, passes through the first intermetatarsal space, and passes in front of the medial malleolus where it inserts around LR-4. It ascends along the inner side of the tibia. It inserts at the inner part of the knee (LR-8), ascends along the inner side of the thigh embracing the adductors (pathway similar to the Spleen muscle channel) and reaches the groin. It goes to CV-3, where it joins all the foot muscle channels and then distributes in the external genitals.

The Spleen channel passes in front of the Liver channel but with the muscle channels it is the opposite.

Symptoms

Pain, contracture, tightness along the pathway.

Big toe, ankle, adductors, testicles (retraction of testicles and penis with cold attack or falling/relaxation in heat attack).

When there is a problem of external genitals, at muscle or tendons level, the first channel to look at is Liver.

Adductor issues: Spleen and Liver.