Acupoints for Kidney Deficiency

🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 足三里 (zú sān lǐ)

🎯 Location: 3 thumb widths below st35, 1 finger breadth (middle finger) from anterior border of the tibia.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in cases of severe varicose veins.

🛡️ Treats: cough, fever, appetite:weak, diarrhoea, dyspnoea

🗺️ Meridian: Lung Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 經渠 (jīng qú)

🎯 Location: 1 thumb width above the transverse crease of the wrist in the depression on the lateral side of the radial artery.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with depth.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, dyspnoea, asthma, vomiting

🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 犊鼻 (dú bí)

🎯 Location: When knee is flexed point is at the lower border of the patella in the depression the lateral to the patellar ligament.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute knee injuries.

🛡️ Treats: swelling, pain, stagnation:channel, swelling:knee, atrophy:leg

🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 犊鼻 (dú bí)

🎯 Location: When knee is flexed point is at the lower border of the patella in the depression the lateral to the patellar ligament.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute knee injuries.

🛡️ Treats: swelling, pain, stagnation:channel, swelling:knee, atrophy:leg

🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 肝俞 (gān yú)

🎯 Location: 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the du8 at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 9th thoracic vertebra.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep perpendicular needling.

🛡️ Treats: cough, pain:chest, dizziness, cough:blood, jaundice

🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 足三里 (zú sān lǐ)

🎯 Location: 3 thumb widths below st35, 1 finger breadth (middle finger) from anterior border of the tibia.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in cases of severe varicose veins.

🛡️ Treats: cough, fever, appetite:weak, diarrhoea, dyspnoea