Name
涌泉
- Yong Quan
- Gushing Spring
- Flourishing Spring of the Earth
Nature
- Jing-Well Point
- Wood Point: Child
Location
In the depression where the anterior and middle thirds of the sole of the foot meet.
Functions
- It is a wellspring origin so that all Qi-Blood reaches its source and does not escape. Do not needle in case of Qi-Blood deficiency
- Drains excess Heart-Fire: blackish face, cough with blood, thirst, inflamed throat, dry throat and tongue. Nervousness and fear
- Warms the feet while draining Fire from the head, which helps sleep
- Cools overly hot feet. Tonifies the Kidneys and drains Liver-Fire
- Wood Point of Water: tonifies the Liver
- Daytime somnolence and insomnia at night. Sadness, pain in the iliac fossae, dizziness, Liver-Qi stagnation
- Hemoptysis and epistaxis
- Thirst
- Hiccup from Kidney deficiency
- Vomiting of Cold-Empty type
- Cough, asthma, shortness of breath and suffocation from Cold-Empty (the Kidney helps the Lung to descend)
- Tinnitus, deafness
- Hypertension
- Local point for pain in the sole of the foot
- Fury
- Resuscitation point
Treatment
- Needling: 0.5 CUN perpendicular
- Massage
- Moxibustion