EX-LE10

Bafeng

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八風 (Bāfēng) — Eight Winds

Extra point · Extra (Lower Extremity) · point EX-LE10

Traditionally used for

Nerves & recovery

Location

Eight points, four on the dorsum of each foot, in the web margins between the toes, at the border between red and white flesh.

How to locate: The points are on the dorsum of the foot at the web margins between adjacent toes, on the border between red and white skin; LV2, ST44 and GB43 are among them.

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

Body map, front: EX-LE10 · Hand — Fig. — EX-LE10 · Hand After Albinus, 1747

Bones of the hand, dorsal — Gray's Anatomy plate — Bones of the hand, dorsal Gray's Anatomy, 1918

3D view

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Needling

Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun

Angle: Oblique, directed proximally, or prick to bleed

Functions

Clears heat and reduces swelling of the feet
Activates the channels and relieves toe pain

Indications

Swelling and pain of the feet and toesnumbness of the toesperipheral neuropathyberiberisnake bite (classical)malaria

Clinical Notes

The lower-limb counterpart of Baxie, and a standard set for diabetic peripheral neuropathy of the feet.

Sources

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

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