Name
内庭
- Nei Ting
- Inner Court
- Inner Court
Location
Web margin between the second and third toes
Nature
Ying-Spring Point: Water
Actions
- Lower the Fire of the Stomach Channel: toothache (with LI-4 + ST-44 + KI-3), gum inflammation, sore throat, epistaxis, dizziness, vertigo
- Regulates Qi, promotes digestion. Abdominal distension, sluggish digestion, sleepiness, yawning. Intestinal infection (dysentery, gastroenteritis)
- Anti-inflammatory, calms pain
- Promotes sweating: much heat and no sweating
- Calms the Shen: excessively disturbed by noise
- Poor circulation, thrombosis
Comments
Important point in gastric excess
Treatment
Needling: 0.3 CUN perpendicular, needling preferred over moxa