Name
大都
- Da Du
- Great Capital
- Great Meeting
Location
Anterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint of the great toe, where the skin changes color
Nature
- Ying-Spring Point
- Fire Point, Mother, tonification
Actions
- Tonifies the Spleen. See: Spleen-Qi deficiency
- Excess Heart-Fire: nervousness, lack of appetite, vomiting. This point helps drain Heart-Fire to the Earth
- Elderly: lower back pain, general muscle pain (good for musculature)
- Leg pain, muscle atrophy
- Helps absorb calcium
- Cold in feet and hands
Comments
Not indicated for arthrosis
Treatment
- Needling: 0.2 CUN. Very sensitive
- Moxibustion