ACUPUNCTURE
Fu Liu: TCM Acupoint Guide
FULIU
Name
Fu Liu (Fuliu)
Location
On the medial aspect of the lower leg, in the depression 2 cun superior to KI-3 Taixi, on the anterior border of the achilles tendon.
Needling
- Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 to 0.7 cun.
- Straight insertion 1 to 1.5 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness, possibly a numb sensation extending to the bottom of the foot.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Jing-River point of the Kidney channel
- Metal point of the Kidney channel
- Tonification point of the Kidney channel
- Traversing point of the Kidney channel
- Mother point of the Kidney channel
Actions
- Benefits the Kidneys
- Tonifies the Kidneys (Qi, Yin and Yang)
- Regulates the water passages
- Treats edema
- Regulates sweating
- Tonifies Wei Qi
- Drains Dampness
- Clears Damp-Heat
- Strengthens the lumbar region
- Regulates Kidney Qi
- Regulates the Bladder
- Regulates menstruation
- Moistens Dryness
- Endocrine point (testes, thyroid, ovaries, adrenals, hormones suprarenals)
Indications
- The five types of edema
- Swelling of the four limbs
- Swelling of the lower limb
- Difficult urination
- Dark urine
- The five types of urinary dysfunction (Lin)
- Blood painful urinary dysfunction (Lin)
- Dry tongue
- Parched mouth
- Dry tongue with Stomach Heat
- Curled tongue with inability to speak
- Pain in the nostrils
- Epistaxis
- Tooth decay
- Withered, yellow complexion
- Propensity to anger with incessant talking
- Propensity to laughter
- Prone to anger
- Cold legs
- Hot and Cold bones (alternating)
- Leukorrhea
- Absence of sweating
- Insanity
- Borborygmus
- Ascites
- Swelling of the abdomen with drum distention
- Peritonitis
- Beriberi
- Urination feels like passing sparks of fire
- Urinary tract infection
- Violent pain inside the Kidneys and spine; cannot bend over
- Neurasthenics
- Cholera
- Lower Jiao wasting and thirsting
- Hyperthyroidism with excessive sweating
- Heatstroke with excessive sweating
- Gastric ulcers
- Cold sweats
- Exhaustion
- Paraplegia
- Prolapse of Bladder
- Abnormal sweating
- Spontaneous sweating
- Night sweating
- Incessant night sweats
- Ceaseless sweating
- Fever with anhidrosis
- Diarrhea
- Abdominal distention with borborygmus
- Dysenteric disorder
- Red dysentery (bloody stools)
- Pus and Blood in the stool
- Heavy feeling in the rectum after diarrhea
- Bleeding hemorrhoids
- Constipation
- Seminal emission
- Menorrhagia
- Uterine bleeding
- Lumbar pain
- Pain of the lumbar vertebrae
- Lumbar pain due to Qi Stagnation
- Atrophy disorder of the leg
- Paralysis of the foot
- Muscular atrophy of the foot
- Pulseless syndrome
- Nephritis
- Orchitis
- Tidal fevers
- Common Cold without sweat
- Neuralgia of the lumbar muscles preventing dorsiflexion and ventriflexion
- Myelitis
- Asthenopia (cannot see clearly)
- Vision problems
- Malarial disorders
- Urethritis
- Coma
- Tonsillitis
- Renal atrophy
- Arterial hypofunction
- Cold feet and bones
- Weakness of limbs after shock
- Problems arising from Intestinal parasites
Combinations
| Points | Indications |
|---|---|
| REN-9 Shuifen | Edema |
| REN-8 Shenque | Edema with Qi distention and fullness |
| SP-4 Gongsun, LIV-4 Zhongfeng, SP-3 Taibai, REN-9 Shuifen | Drum distention |
| DU-14 Dazhui, UB-43 (moxa), Gaohuangshu | Spontaneous sweating |
| LI-4 Hegu | Little sweating (reinforce LI-4 and reduce KI-7); copious sweating (reduce LI-4 and reinforce KI-7) |
| PC-3 Quze, LU-10 Yuji, SI-1 Shaoze, DU-23 Shangxing, LIV-8 Ququan, UB-60 Kunlun, GB-43 Xiaxi, GB-44 Zuqiaoyin | Stomach ulcers |
| ST-44 Neiting, LI-4 Hegu, M-HN-30 Bailao | Absence of sweating |
| KI-2 Rangu | Drooling |
| REN-2 Qugu, LIV-3 Taichong, REN-4 Guanyuan, SP-6 Sanyinjiao, ST-25 Tianshu | Red and white leukorrhea (use seven cones of moxa on REN-2 and one hundred cones of moxa on ST-25 and SP-6) |
| UB-40 Weizhong | Pain of the lumbar spine |
| UB-11 Dazhu, GB-39 Xuanzhong, UB-62 Shenmai, ST-45 Lidui, UB-23 Shenshu | Coldness and pain of the bone marrow |
| UB-62 Shenmai, ST-45 Lidui | Cold sensations of the legs |
| LIV-3 Taichong | Breast pain |
| REN-9 Shuifen, KI-9 Shuifen, ST-36 Zusanli, M-HN-13 Yiming | Cirrhosis of the Liver |
| LIV-3 Taichong, UB-35 Huiyang | Blood in the stool |
| HT-6 Yinxi | Kidney Yin Deficiency sweating |
Contraindications
Contraindicated after the eighth month of pregnancy.
Notes
This point is one of the foremost points to strengthen the Kidney's function of dominating Body fluids, regulating urination and controlling sweating. This point is indicated for various types of bleeding, including hematuria, hemafecia, epistaxis, uterine bleeding and menorrhagia. This point is better at tonifying Kidney Yang than KI-3 Taixi. This point also works on the Lungs.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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