Atlas of Acupuncture

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

Location

On the lateral aspect of the foot, distal to the tuberosity of the 5th

metatarsal bone.

How to find

When palpating along the lateral aspect of the foot on the level

of the border of the ‘red and white’ skin, a bony structure can be

felt approximately at the midpoint of the foot. This is the

tuberosity of the 5th metatarsal bone (➞3.6.2). BL-64is located

directly distal to it (towards the toes), at the junction between the

base and the shaft of the 5th metatarsal bone.

➞BL-63is located proximal to the tuberosity of the 5th metatarsal

bone, in a depression between the calcaneus and cuboid bone

(or between the tuberosity and the cuboid bone). ➞SP-4is

located in a comparable position on the medial aspect of the

foot, in a depression distal to the base of the 1st metatarsal bone.

Needling

Vertically 0.3–0.5 cun

Actions/Indications

● Clears Wind and Heat from the head and eyes

● Calms the shen

● Opens the channel

Special features

Yuan-source point

Capital Bone JINGGU BL-64

Tuberosity of the 5th metatarsal

BL-64 BL-63

G.B.-40

BL-60

BL-62

BL-63 BL-61

BL-64

BL-67 BL-66 BL-65

G.B.-44 G.B.-43

G.B.-42G.B.-41

Calcaneus

Cuboid

Navicular

Intermediate cuneiform

Lateral cuneiform

Metatarsal

bones

Phalanges

Tuberosity of the

5th metatarsal bone

Talus

BL-63 BL-64

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