ACUPUNCTURE
Yin Bai: TCM Acupoint Guide
YINBAI
Name
Yin Bai (Yinbai)
Location
On the medial side of the big toe, 0.1 cun posterior to the corner of the nail.
Needling
- Slanted insertion in a proximal direction, 0.1 to 0.2 cun, causing local pain. Alternatively, prick the point to draw a few drops of Blood.
- Perpendicular or oblique insertion directed proximally, 0.1 to 0.2 cun, or prick to bleed.
- Puncture subcutaneously, 0.1 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
Command Functions
- Jing-well point
- Wood point
- Entry point
- Sun Si-miao Ghost point
Actions
- Strengthens the Spleen
- Regulates the Spleen
- Regulates the Blood
- Calms the Heart and Shen
- Regulates menstruation
- Stops bleeding
- Unbinds the chest
- Restores consciousness
Indications
- Bleeding in any part of the body
- Uterine bleeding
- Epistaxis
- Hematuria
- Mental restlessness
- Depression
- Excessive dreaming
- Paralysis, especially of the legs
- Asthma
- Severe mental imbalance
- Leg spasms when lying down
- Temper tantrums in children
- Cold hands and feet
- All menstrual disorders
- Childhood convulsions
- Anorexia
- Prolonged menstruation
- Nausea
- Chest and epigastric fullness and pain
- Sudden diarrhea
- Dream-disturbed sleep
- Infantile convulsions with diarrhea
- Chronic infantile convulsions
- Vomiting, cannot swallow anything
- Strong diarrhea
- Dyspepsia
- Emergency care
- Sleepiness
- Dyspnea preventing lying down
- Febrile disease with nosebleed
- Difficult ingestion
- Agitation
- Chronic childhood fright wind
- Nightmares
- Swelling
- Suffocation
- Vomiting
- Heat in the chest
- Diarrhea
- Syncope
- Cold feet
- Metrorrhagia
- Chronic convulsions
- Epilepsy
- Abdominal distention
- Hemafecia
- Menorrhagia
- Mental disorders
- Convulsions
- Mania
- Melancholia
- Insomnia
- Bleeding of the digestive tract
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Spasms of the uterus
- Moria, a morbid tendency to joke
- Acute enteritis
- Vomiting and diarrhea in cholera
- Hemorrhoids
- Stye, hordeolum
- Cold legs
- Sudden swelling of the four limbs
- No desire to eat or drink
- Sighing
- Propensity to sadness
- Fever with anhidrosis
- Menorrhagia
Combinations
| Points | Indications |
|---|---|
| REN-6 Qihai, SP-10 Xuehai, SP-6 Sanyinjiao | Abnormal uterine bleeding |
| ST-36 Zusanli | Uterine or rectal bleeding |
| UB-40 Weizhong | Severe nosebleeds that will not stop |
| ST-36 Zusanli (moxa) | Hemorrhage |
| ST-25 Tianshu, ST-44 Neiting, REN-6 Qihai, KI-6 Zhaohai, PC-6 Neiguan | Red, bloody dysenteric disorder |
| UB-20 Pishu, UB-18 Ganshu, REN-13 Shangwan | Vomiting Blood, spontaneous external bleeding |
| UB-57 Chengshan, UB-58 Feiyang, UB-60 Kunlun, UB-64 Jinggu | Heat in the head and rhinitis with nosebleed |
| LU-1 Zhongfu, LU-2 Yunmen, LIV-14 Qimen, UB-13 Feishu, UB-47 Hunmen, PC-7 Daling | Chest pain |
| LU-9 Taiyuan, SP-4 Gongsun, UB-13 Feishu, SP-9 Yinlingquan, SP-6 Sanyinjiao | Agitation and oppression with inability to lie down |
| HT-7 Shenmen, PC-6 Neiguan, SI-3 Houxi, UB-15 Xinshu | Epilepsy |
| ST-45 Lidui | Nightmares |
| LIV-1 Dadun | Loss of consciousness |
Contraindications
Contraindicated during pregnancy.
Notes
Normally used for Excess patterns of the Spleen and Stomach. One of the foremost points to strengthen the Spleen function of holding Blood. Especially used to treat Blood Stasis in the uterus. A special use is with moxibustion to stop bleeding from any part of the body, especially the uterus. Tonify to increase concentration. This point calms the mind and creates equilibrium and joy. It stimulates the pancreas and helps lower insulin intake for diabetics.
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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