Name
梁丘
- Liang Qiu
- Column on the Mound
- Summit of the Hill
Location
2 CUN above the upper outer border of the patella
Nature
Xi-Cleft Point of Stomach
Actions
- Acute Stomach pain: facilitates dissolving accumulation, fullness (of Yang, Heat, food)
- Lower Stomach-Qi reflux. See: Rebellious Stomach-Qi
- Unblock the Stomach Channel: Knee pain and cold sensation with difficulty bending knee, and then cannot get up.
Comments
- Torn meniscus: LR-8 + 34 ST + GB-33; Not for osteoarthritis
- It is the only Xi-Cleft Point of the leg above the knee.
Treatment
- Needling: 0.3-0.5 CUN perpendicular
- Moxa