Research concerning standard location of meridian points on the yang meridians of the crus.
10.3777/jjsam.39.400
- VernacularTitle:下腿部陽経の経穴に関する標準部位の研究
- Author:
Masayuki MOTOYOSHI
;
Tadaharu YAMAKAWA
;
Haruto KINOSHITA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
1989;39(4):400-407
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
With international standardization of location of meridian points which are fundamental to acupuncture as a goal we studied the location of meridian points on the Yang meridians of the crus. The method of research was to adopt the descriptions of point locations round in the classics using the classics chronologically and adding to this information based on actual measurement, conduct our studies. As a standard local scale for Yang meridians on the crus, as in the KOTSUDO chapter the distance from the height of the knee split point to the lateral malleolus is 16 fcun and the distance from the fold line in the popliteal fossa (B40) to the superior border of the calcaneus is given as 16 fcun, point locations which could not be explained anatomically were proportionally distributed with in the local scale. Thus on the Stomach Meridian as the classic locations of S36 and S41 can be assumed and expressed anatomically and the other points lie between S35 and S41, S37 was determined 2/5 from S35, S38 and S40 in the middle and S39 2/5 from S41. On the Gall Bladder Meridian, G34 and G40 are determined anatomically and the other points between the knee split point and the lateral malleolus, G35 and G36 in the middle front or back, G37 1/3 from the lateral malleolus, G38 1/4 from the lateral malleolus and G39 1/5 from the lateral malleolus. On the Bladder Meridian between B40 and the superior border of the calcaneum protrubence, B55 is 1/8 from B40, B56 is 1/3 from B40, B57 and B58 midway medially or laterally and B59 1/5 from the calcaneum protrubence.
