Atlas of Acupuncture

4.7 The Bladder Channel System – Foot taiyang(zu tai yang jing luo)

4.7 The Bladder Channel

System – Foot taiyang

(zu tai yang jing luo)

4.7.1 The Bladder Primary Channel

(zu tai yang jing)

Pathway

The externalpathway of the Bladder primary channel begins at

the inner canthus of the eye at ➞BL-1(jingming). This point is

reached by a branch that separates from the Small Intestine pri-

mary channel at ➞S.I.-18(quanliao) (hand–foot pairing of the

second great circuit, Yang axes: taiyang).

The externalpathway ascends the forehead, there intersects with

➞Du-24(shenting) and ➞G.B.-15(toulinqi), continues to the

vertex and there connects with the du maiat ➞Du-20(baihui).

At ➞Du-20 two branchesseparate from the primary channel:

➡one branchtravels to the temporal region and intersects the

Gall Bladder primary channel at G.B.-8(shuaigu), G.B.-7

(qubin), G.B.-9 (tianchong), G.B.-10 (fubai), G.B.-11

(touqiaoyin) and G.B.-12(wangu)

➡the other branchpenetrates deeper into the brain and re-

emerges at ➞Du-17(naohu) or, according to some authors,

at BL-8(luoque).

From ➞Du-20, the external pathwayruns to BL-8(luoque)

and BL-9(yuzhen), passes ➞Du-17(naohu) and continues to

BL-10(tianzhu) in the occipital region. Here, the external

pathwayof the channel separates into two branches:

➡the medialbranch runs to ➞Du-14(dazhui) below the

spinal process of C7 where it meets the other Yang primary

channels, then continues to ➞Du-13(taodao). From T1 it

runs parallel to the posterior midline, 1.5 cun lateral to it.

BL-1

BL-7

10

(^4112)
46
31
30
36
39 40
58
57
G.B.-30
23
Du-13
Du-14
G.B.-15
(S.I.-18)
Du-24
Du-20
Du-17
Meeting points
G.B.-7, G.B.-8,
G.B.-9, G.B.-10,
G.B.-11, G.B.-12
BL-2
BL-1
BL-4 BL-3
BL-5 Du-23
1,5Cun
BL-4 BL-3
BL-6
BL-5
BL-7
BL-8
Du-23
Du-20
Du-17
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