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Meridians  
Bladder Meridian
A. Course

Course#1

( 1 )

Canthus medial

( 2 )

Shenting (Gv-24)

( 3 )

Baihui (Gv-20)

Course#2

( 3 )

Baihui (Gv-20)

( 4 )

Fubai (GB-10), Head-Qiaoyin (GB-11), and Wangu (Head-Wangu, GB-12), etc.

Course#3

( 3 )

Baihui (Gv-20)

( 5 )

Naohu (Gv-17)

( 6 )
Neck
( 7 )
Dazhui (Gv-14) and Taodao (Gv-13)
( 8 )
Lumber region
( 9 )
Kidney
( 10 )
Urinary bladder

Course#4

( 8 )

Lumbar region

( 11 )

Crosses the buttock

( 12 ) Popliteal fossa.

Course#5

( 6 )

Neck

( 13 )

Medial side ofthe scapula

( 14 ) Lumber region
( 15 ) Lateral side of the thigh
( 16 ) Popliteal fossa
( 17 ) M. gastrocnemius
( 18 ) Pushen (BL-61)
( 19 ) The lateral side of the tip of the small toe (Zhiyin, BL-67).
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B. Related Viscera

 
  Urinary bladder (Pertaining Organ), kidney, brain, and heart.

C. Acupoints

BL 1

Location

0.1 cun superior to the inner canthus.

Indication

Redness, swelling and pain of the eye, itching of the canthus, lacrimation, night blindness, color blindness, blurring of vision, myopia.

Notes

Disperses wind, drains fire, nourishes water and clears vision.

BL 2

Location

On the medial extremity of the eyebrow, or on the supraorbital notch.

Indication

General eye disease, headache, facial palsy, insomnia, nasal obstruction, facial swelling, lacrimation,

Notes

Removes wind, clears vision.

BL 3

Location

Directly above the medial end of the eyebrow, 0.5 cun within the anterior hairline, between GV 24 and UB 4.

Indication

Headache, giddiness, hyposmia, nasal obstruction, epilepsy.

Notes

 

BL 4

Location

1.5 cun lateral to GV 24, at the junction of the medial third and lateral two-thirds of the distance from GV 24 to ST 8.

Indication

Pain in forehead or parietal region, nasal obstruction, epistaxis, blurring and failing of vision.

Notes

 

BL 5

Location

1.5 cun lateral to GV 23, or 0.5 cun diretly above UB 4.

Indication

Headache, poor vision, blurring of vision, nasitis, epilepsy, convulsion.

Notes

 

BL 6

Location

1.5 cun posterior to UB 5, 1.5 cun lateral to the GV meridian.

Indication

Headache, blurring of vision, nasal obstruction.

Notes

 

BL 7

Location

1.5 cun posterior to UB 6, 1.5 cun lateral to the GV meridian.

Indication

Headache, giddiness, nasal obstruction, dull head, dizziness, epistaxis, rhinorrhea.

Notes

 

BL 8

Location

1.5 cun posterior to UB 7, 1.5 cun lateral to the GV meridian.

Indication

Dizziness, tinnitus, abdominal distention, nasal obstruction, cataract, vomiting, mania.

Notes

 

BL 9

Location

1.3 cun lateral to GV 17, on the lateral side of the superior border of the external occipital protuberance.

Indication

Headache and neck pain, dizziness, ophthalmalgia, nasal obstruction.

Notes

 

BL 10

Location

1.3 cun lateral to GV 15, in the depression on he lateral aspect of m. trapezius.

Indication

HHeadache, dull head, dizziness, nasal obstruction, neck rigidity, shoulder-back pain

Notes

 

BL 11

Location

1.5 cun lateral to GV 13 at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the first thoracic vertebra.

Indication

Body fever, headache, cough, abdominal pain, pain and soreness in scapular region, neck rigidity.

Notes

Dispels pathogenic wind, receives outer fever, relaxes muscles, regulates bone and joints.

BL 12

Location

1.5 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of the 2nd thoracic verterbra.

Indication

Neck rigidity due to common cold, cough, epistaxis, chest-back pain, fever.

Notes

Makes the flow of lung-qi well, disperses wind, regulates qi.

BL 13

Location

1.5 cun lateral to the lower border of the spinous process of the 3rd thoracic verterbra.

Indication

Vomiting, cough, pain and stiffness in back, chest pain, spitting of blood, afternoon fever, thirst, night sweating.

Notes

Regulates lung qi, reduces false fever.