# Acupoints for Night Blindness

3 sourced protocols for Night Blindness. Canonical page: https://acuiq.com/symptoms/night-blindness

## Protocols

| # | Points | Course | Source | Kind | Caveat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ST36 (Leg Three Miles), BL01 (Bright Eyes / Eye Point), BL18 (Liver Shu Point), CV12 (Stomach Centre), XU10A (Four Stitches), XU10B (Four Stitches), XU10C (Four Stitches), XU10D (Four Stitches) | Needling + Bloodletting, 5 sessions | Henry C. Lu. Clinical Cases of Acupuncture | text | Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report. |
| 2 | BL01 (Bright Eyes / Eye Point), GB37 (Bright Light), LV03 (Great Surge) | Needling, 4 sessions over 4 days | Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994 | text | Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report. |
| 3 | BL01 (Bright Eyes / Eye Point), KD05 (Water Spring), GB37 (Bright Light) | Needling, 5 sessions | Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994 | text | Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report. |

## Point locations

| Point | Name | Meridian | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| ST36 | Leg Three Miles | Stomach Meridian | 3 thumb widths below ST35, 1 finger breadth (middle finger) from anterior border of the tibia. |
| BL01 | Bright Eyes / Eye Point | Bladder Meridian | In the depression the slightly above the inner canthus. |
| BL18 | Liver Shu Point | Bladder Meridian | 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the GV08 at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 9th thoracic vertebra. |
| CV12 | Stomach Centre | Conception Vessel | On the anterior midline 4 thumb widths above the umbilicus. |
| XU10A | Four Stitches | Extra Points: Upper limbs | Four points on the each hand, on the palmer side of the 2nd to the 5th fingers and at the centre of the proximal interphalangeal joints. |
| XU10B | Four Stitches | Extra Points: Upper limbs | Four points on the each hand, on the palmer side of the 2nd to the 5th fingers and at the centre of the proximal interphalangeal joints. |
| XU10C | Four Stitches | Extra Points: Upper limbs | Four points on the each hand, on the palmer side of the 2nd to the 5th fingers and at the centre of the proximal interphalangeal joints. |
| XU10D | Four Stitches | Extra Points: Upper limbs | Four points on the each hand, on the palmer side of the 2nd to the 5th fingers and at the centre of the proximal interphalangeal joints. |
| GB37 | Bright Light | Gallbladder Meridian | 5 thumb widths directly above the tip of the external malleolus on the anterior border of the fibula. |
| LV03 | Great Surge | Liver Meridian | On the dorsum of the foot in the depression the distal to the junction of the 1st and 2nd metatarsal bones. |
| KD05 | Water Spring | Kidney Meridian | 1 thumb width directly below KD03 in the depression of the medial side of the tuberosity of the calcaneum. |

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