ACUPUNCTURE
Xing Jian: TCM Acupoint Guide
XINGJIAN
Name
Xing Jian (Xingjian)
Location
On the dorsum of the foot, between the first and second toes, 0.5 cun proximal to the margin of the web, at the junction of the red and white skin.
Needling
- Slanted insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun, causing distention and soreness extending through the foot.
- Oblique insertion towards the heel, 0.5 to 1 cun, or perpendicular insertion, 0.5 to 0.8 cun.
- Puncture obliquely, 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Ying-spring point
- Fire point
- Sedation point
Actions
- Clears Liver Fire
- Subdues Liver Yang
- Cools the Blood
- Subdues Interior Wind
- Spreads Liver qi
- Soothes the Liver
- Pacifies Liver Wind
- Clears Heat
- Stops bleeding
- Benefits the Lower Jiao
Indications
- Bitter taste in the mouth
- Red face
- Headache
- Dream-disturbed sleep
- Scanty, dark urine
- Constipation
- Red and swollen eyes
- A red tongue with a thick yellow coat
- A wiry and rapid pulse
- Migraine headaches
- Epilepsy
- Acute convulsions
- Childhood convulsions
- Cough due to Liver Fire
- Hypochondriac pain and distention
- In severe cases the person is unable to turn the body and has a sensation of swelling and fullness below the ribs
- Breathlessness
- Angers easily
- Easily agitated
- Dry eyes
- Eye pain
- Dry and irritated throat
- Menorrhagia
- Hysteria
- Insanity
- Insomnia
- Gastric pain
- Swollen knee
- Neurasthenia
- First aid for cramping
- First aid for spasms
- First aid for uterine retention
- Jaundice with a slight fever
- Conjunctivitis
- Dry throat and mouth
- Diaphragmatic spasms
- Early menstruation due to Heat in the Blood
- Amenorrhea
- Dysmenorrhea
- Metrorrhagia
- Red and white leukorrhea
- Glaucoma
- Orchitis
- Night sweats
- Cloudy urine
- Urethral discharge
- Dribbling urine
- Headache with blurred vision and dizziness
- Eye diseases
- Epistaxis
- Thirst
- Burning Heat of the face
- Dark green complexion, a death-like green color
- Contracted sinews
- Windstroke
- Deviation of the mouth
- Tetany
- Itching of the genitals
- Sudden involuntary erection
- The seven kinds of Shan disorder
- Cold Shan disorder
- Painful urinary dysfunction
- Enuresis
- Cold Damp diarrhea
- Counterflow Cold of the four limbs
- Wasting and thirsting disorder with a desire to drink
- Malaria
- Lotus flower tongue in children
- Heat in the shin
- Leg qi with redness and swelling
- Severe anxiety
- Hemorrhage during menstruation
- Diabetes
- Loves to drink
- Peritonitis
- Vomiting blood when coughing
- Acute and chronic gastritis
- Sensation of fullness and contracture in the four limbs
- Pain and swelling of the knee joint
- Renal pain preventing bending forwards or backwards
- Urinary incontinence
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Hemoptysis
- Retention of urine
- Swelling of the extremities
- Cramping
- Pain in the flanks and chest
- Swelling of the lower abdomen
- Hypertension
- Pain in the penis
- Lumbago
- Swelling and pain in the epigastrium
- Facial paralysis
- Calm madness
- Dyspnea
- Cold limbs
- Hiccups
- Vision problems
- Tearing
- Dysuria
- Direct Attack of Wind
- Apoplexy
- Alternating chills and fever
- Swelling of the lower abdomen in women
- Menorrhalgia
- Abdominal distention
- Dizziness
- Blurred vision
- Night blindness
- Vertigo
- Congestion
- Swelling and pain of the eye
- Hernia
- Painful urination
- Irregular menstruation
- Seizures
- Convulsions
- Mumps
- Nausea
- Tinnitus
- Intercostal neuralgia
- Chest fullness and pain
- Colic
- Genital pain
- Irascibility
- Psychosis
- Urticaria
- Eczema
- Clutching sensation in the throat
- Heat in the body
- Propensity to anger
- Sadness
- Propensity to fright
- Excessive fright with little strength
- Propensity to fear as if seeing ghosts
- Palpitations
- Loss of consciousness
- Childhood fright Wind
- Early menstruation
- Abdominal masses in women
- Difficult lactation
- Pain of the Heart and Liver
- Terrible pain in the Heart and Liver with a greenish complexion, where pain impairs respiration
- Pain of the chest and back
- Pain below the Heart
- Rib pain
- Much sighing
- Inability to catch the breath all day long
- Lumbar pain with difficulty flexing and extending the back
- Pain of the inner aspect of the leg
- Pain and swelling of the instep
- Prolonged menstruation
- Anuria
- Great thirst, the more one drinks the thirstier one gets
- Nausea and vomiting
- Violent diarrhea
- Cold-Damp diarrhea with cough due to Liver qi problems
- Infantile meningeal reaction due to Wind with a powdery or discolored complexion
Combinations
| Points | Indications |
|---|---|
| GB-20 Fengchi, LI-4 Hegu | Glaucoma |
| KI-1 Yongquan | Thirst, severe thirst of wasting and thirsting, emaciation |
| LIV-3 Taichong | Parched throat with thirst, pain of the Liver and Heart, pain of the Heart with a green complexion like death, inability to catch the breath all day long |
| DU-24 Shenting | Lachrymation |
| UB-1 Jingming | Liver qi night blindness |
| HT-6 Yinxi | Heart pain |
| DU-8 Jinsuo, REN-2 Qugu, KI-10 Yingu | Fright epilepsy, mad walking, madness |
| LIV-8 Ququan | Retention of urine, pain of the penis |
| GB-25 Jingmen | Lumbar pain with inability to stand for long or to move |
| GB-30 Huantiao, GB-31 Fengshi | Lumbar pain that radiates down the leg |
| UB-39 Weiyang, UB-37 Yinmen, SP-3 Taibai, SP-9 Yinlingquan | Lumbar pain with inability to bend and extend |
| GB-31 Fengshi, UB-40 Weizhong | Lumbar pain with difficulty moving |
| UB-10 Tianzhu | Inability of the legs to support the body |
Notes
The best point to clear Liver Fire, used to sedate all Excess Liver patterns. It affects the pancreas.
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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