T.66.03

Huo Ying

Star

火硬 (Huǒ Yìng) — Fire Hardness

Master Tung's Extraordinary Points · Zone 6 — Foot and Dorsum (六六部位) · point 66.03

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Headaches
Dizziness
Menstrual & women's health
Heart & circulation

Cautions & contraindications

Pregnancy

Location

On the dorsum of the foot, between the first and second metatarsal bones, 0.5 cun distal to the junction of the two bones — just distal to LV3.

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

Body map, front: T.66.03 · Foot — Fig. — T.66.03 · Foot After Albinus, 1747

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

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

Pregnancy

Depth: 0.5–0.8 cun

Angle: Perpendicular

⚠ Cautions: Strictly contraindicated in pregnancy — Tung's texts record it as a point that can induce labour or miscarriage.

Functions

Regulates the Heart
Regulates the uterus and promotes delivery
Moves qi and blood

Indications

Palpitations and cardiac paindysmenorrhoea and irregular menstruationdifficult labour and retained placentauterine prolapsedizzinessvertex headache

In Master Tung's System

Zone: Zone 6 — Foot and Dorsum (六六部位)

Correspondence: Images the Heart and the uterus; lies on the Liver channel's territory between the first and second metatarsals.

Needled as a Dao Ma group with: T.66.04

Clinical Notes

Needled with Huo Zhu as a two-needle Dao Ma. The pregnancy contraindication here is emphatic in every source.

Similar Points

Huo Zhu how are these connected?

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