Name
然谷
- Ran Gu
- Illuminated Valley
- Valley of Approval
龙渊
- Long Yuan
- Stream where the Dragon lives
- Dragon of Deep Water
Nature
- Ying-Spring Point
- Fire Point
- Meeting Point with Penetrating Vessel
Location
On the medial border of the foot, below the scaphoid tubercle. Behind SP-4
Functions
- Balances Water-Fire: nocturnal thirst, nervousness, impatience, insomnia, very dry mouth, daytime somnolence, chronic pharyngitis with pain and dry throat, fear, excessive sweating
- Throat pain and inflammation, difficulty swallowing, thick sticky saliva
- Diabetes with polydipsia and weight loss
- Urogenital disorders: spermatorrhea, menstrual irregularities, infertility, itching, prostate problems, incontinence
- Sciatica, herniated disc and lower back pain
- Foot pain, heel spur, unable to bear weight on foot
- One foot hot and the other cold, one leg warmer than the other
Treatment
- Needling: 0.5 CUN perpendicular