Atlas of Acupuncture

4.3 The Stomach Channel System – Foot yangming(zu yang ming jing luo)

Location

With the knee flexed, in the depression inferior to the patella and

lateral to the patellar ligament.

How to find

This point is best located and needled with the knee slightly

flexed (use knee support). ST-35is located in a depression on

the lower lateral border of the patella, in a groove lateral to the

patellar ligament. It projects onto the level of the knee joint

space and more or less corresponds with the arthroscopic access

to the joint. ST-35is also known as ‘lateral eye of the knee’ and

is part of the extra point ➞Ex-LE-5(xiyan).

Needling

0.5–1 cun slightly obliquely in a medial direction, towards the

medial eye of the knee ➞Ex-LE-4(neixiyan). Caution: Knee

joint (the location of this point corresponds approximately with

the arthroscopic access to this joint!).

Actions/Indications

● Expels Wind and Dampness, reduces swellings, opens the

channel, alleviates pain

Special features

Important local point for all disorders of the knee

Calf’s Nose DUBI ST-35

Level of the lower

patellar border

Ex-LE-4

Patellar

ligament

Patellar

ligament

Lateral eye

of the knee

Head of the fibula

Medial condyle

of the femur

Patellar ligament

Patella

'Eye of the knee'

'Eye of the knee'

Level of the lower

patellar border

Corresponds to

ST-35

Ex-LE-5

(xiyan)

ST-35

Level of the lower

Ex-LE-4 patellar border

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