EX-LE1

Kuangu

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髖骨 (Kuāngǔ) — Hip Bone

Extra point · Extra (Lower Extremity) · point EX-LE1

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Pain & joints

Location

Two points on each thigh, 1.5 cun either side of ST34, 2 cun above the upper border of the patella.

How to locate: With the patient seated or supine, find ST34 2 cun above the lateral upper border of the patella; the two points lie on the same level, 1.5 cun lateral and medial to ST34.

Distances are in cun, a proportional unit — how to measure.

Body map, front: EX-LE1 · Thigh — Fig. — EX-LE1 · Thigh After Albinus, 1747

The femur — Gray's Anatomy plate — The femur Gray's Anatomy, 1918 Marker hidden while its position on this plate is re-checked.

3D view

3D view not available for this point: its position can't be carried onto the 3D model reliably (it failed a placement check). The 2D maps above show it.

Needling

Depth: 1.0–1.5 cun

Angle: Perpendicular

Functions

Benefits the knee and relieves pain

Indications

Knee pain and swellingweakness and atrophy of the thigh musclesarthritis of the knee

Sources

Focks C, ed. Atlas of Acupuncture. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2008. (Locating method and actions.)

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