Name

京骨

• Jing Gu
• Bone Great, Principal
• Capital Firm

Location

Below the tuberosity of the fifth metatarsal, where the skin changes color.

Nature

Yuan-Source Point

Actions

• Releases blockages in the channel pathway: relieves pain. Acute lower backache. Calf pain (overload, muscle fiber tear)
• Burning sensation on urination, cystitis
• Warms the Bladder Channel. Add BL-60: cervical pain with rigidity, cannot turn the neck. Back pain in the rhomboid area. Headache in the occipital region ([[Greater Yang|Greater Yang attacked by Cold)
• Haemorrhoids, diarrhea
• Abscesses on the back (cysts, pimples)
• Hunchbacked person with rigidity, scoliosis (BL-62 + BL-64 + GV). If there is scoliosis needle first BL-62 to stretch and then BL-64 for Qi to circulate.
• Calms the Shen: irritability, nervousness, mental confusion

Treatment

• Needling: 0.3 CUN
• Moxibustion

Interactions

• Myocarditis: PC-6
• Cold limbs: KI-2, BL-23
• Pain in the genital organs: BL-23, BL-52, LR-3