SPLEEN – Foot TaiYin Acupuncture Meridian

SPLEEN – Foot Tai Yin

SP 1 (yinbai)

Ghost point

warms Yang, regulates blood, mania symptoms

Location: 1 fen proximal to the medial corner of the big toe.

SP 3 (taibai)

Yuan Source

best to tone Spleen Qi, Stomach/abdominal pain

Location: on the medial side of the foot in the depression proximal & inferior to the head of the first metatarsal bone.

SP 4 (gongsun)

Connect to Stomach, confluence of Chong

sea of Blood, menses, regulates Chong

Location: on the border of the red & white skin, 1 cun posterior to taibai.

SP 6 (sanyinjiao)

crossing of Spleen Liver Kidney

Spleen Liver Kidney problems

Location: 3 cun above the tip of the medial malleolus, at the posterior border of the tibia.

SP 8 (diji)

Xi cleft

blood, womb, menses (regulate/relieve pain)

Location: 3 cun inferior to yinlingquan.

SP 9 (yinlingquan)

regulates water metabolism, knee pain

Location: in the depression formed posterior to the angle where the head of the tibia & the body of the tibia meet.

SP 10 (xuehai)

{sea of blood} regulate/harmonize menses/blood

Location: place the heel of your right palm on the inferior border of the patients left patella, spread index finger & thumb 45 degrees, point is at tip of thumb.

SP 15 (daheng)

frees bowel Qi

Location: 4 cun lateral to the umbilicus.

SP 18 (tianxi)

cough, mammary Yong, promotes lactation

Location: in the 4th intercostals space, 2 cun lateral to the nipple.

SP 21 (dabao)

Great connecting point

regulates Qi & Blood of whole body, sinews/bones

Location: in the 6th intercostals space, 6 cun below the center of axilla, or some texts say in the 7th intercostals space.