Associated viscera: Kidney, bladder, heart, lung, liver and marrow.
Associated organs: Throat and tongue root.

2.1.9.2 Indications
Gynecological diseases, genital diseases, kidney, lung and throat disorders as well as diseases involving the regions through which the meridian passes.

2.1.9.3 Commonly used acupoints
2.1,9,3.1 Yongquan (KI 1)
Location: This acupoint is located on the sole and in the depression when the foot is in plantar flexion, in the anterior depression when the foot is flexed, approximately at the junction of the anterior one third and posterior two thirds of the sole (see Fig. 49).
Indications. Depressive psychosis, manic psychosis, infantile convulsion, wind stroke, hysteria, headache, vertigo, sore throat, aphonia, unsmooth urination, con-stipation and feverish soles.
Note: Jing-Well acupoint of the kidney meridian of
foot-shaoyin.
2.1.9.3.2 Rangu (KI 2)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the foot, on the lower border of the tuberosity of the navicular bone and anterior and inferior to the medial mal-leolus (see Fig. 50).

Fig .50 Foot acupoints on the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin

Indications: Headache, dizziness, sore throat, diabe-tes, hemoptysis, irregular menstruation, leukorrhea, prolapse of uterus, seminal emission and unsmooth urination.
Note: Ying-Spring acupoint of the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin.
2.1.9.3.3 Taixi (KI3)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the foot, posterior to the medial malleolus and in the depression between the medial malleolous and tendo calca-neus (see Fig. 50).
Indications: Headache, vertigo, sore throat, tooth-ache due to asthenia-fire, tinnitus, deafness, cough, asthma, hemoptysis, irregular menstruation, seminal emission, impotence, frequent urination and pain in the heel.
Note: Shu-Stream and Yuan-Source acupoints of the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin.
2.1.9.3.4 Dazhong (KI 4)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the foot, posterior and inferior to the medial malleolus, and in the depression medial to the attachment of tendo calcaneus (see Fig. 50).
Indications: Cough, asthma, hemoptysis, retention of urine, frequent urination, enuresis, dementia, lumba-go and pain in the heel.
Note: Luo-Connecting acupoint of the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin.
2.1.9.3.5 Shuiquan (KI 5)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the foot, posterior and inferior to the medial malleolus, 1 curt directly below Taixi (KI 3) and in the depression anterior and superior to the medial side of the tuberosity of the calcaneum (see Fig. 50).
Indications: Irregular menstruation, dysmenorrheal and unsmooth urination.
Note: Xi-Cleft acupoint of the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin.
2.1.9.3.6 Zhaohai (KI 6)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the foot and in the depression below the tip of medial malleolus (see Fig. 50).
Indications: Insomnia, somnolence, depressive psy-chosis and manic psychosis, dry mouth, sore throat, dys-menorrhea, irregular menstruation, multi-colored leukor-rhea, unsmooth urination, constipation and swelling and pain in the malleolus joint.
Note: One of the eight convergent acupoints associa-ting with yin heel vessel.
2.1.9.3.7 Fuliu (KI7)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the shank, 2 cun directly above Taixi (KI 3) and on the anterior border of tendo calcaneus (see Fig. 51)

Indications: Abdominal pain and distension, borbo-rygmus, diarrhea, night sweating, no sweating in febrile disease, stiffness and pain in the loins and spine as well as flaccidity and obstruction syndromes of lower limbs.
2.1.9.3.8 Jiaoxin (KI8)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the shank, 2 cun above Taixi (KI 3), 0.5 cun anterior to Fuliu (KI 7), posterior to the medial border of tibia and between Fuliu (KI 7) and the medial posterior border of the tibia. (see Fig. 51)
Indications: Irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, prolapse of uterus, pudendal pruritus, hernia, diarrhea and constipation.
Note: Xi-Cleft acupoint of yin heel vessel.
2.1.9.3.9 Zhubin (KI 9)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the shank, on the line joining Taixi (KI 3) and Yingu (KI 10), 5 cun above Taixi (KI 3) and at the lower end of the belly of m. Gastrocnemius (see Fig. 51).
Indications: Depressive psychosis, manic psychosis, epilepsy, abdominal pain and distension, vomiting and pain in the medial side of the shank.
Note: Xi-Cleft acupoint of yin link vessel.
2.1.9.3.10 Yingu (KI 10)
Location: This acupoint is located on the medial side of the popliteal fossa and between the tendons of m. semi-tendinosus and semimembranosus when the knee is flexed (see Fig. 52).
Indications: Irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, impotence, hernia, retention of urine and pain in the medial border of knee and popliteal fossa.
Note: He-Sea acupoint of the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin.
2.1.9.3.11 Henggu (KI 11)
Location: This acupoint is located on the lower abdo-men, 5 cun below the umbilicus and 0.5 cun lateral to the front medial line (see Fig. 53).

Fig .53 Abdomen acupoints on the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin

Indications. Lower abdominal pain, hernia, impo-tence, seminal emission, enuresis and unsmooth urina-tion.
2.1.9.3.12 Dahe (KI 12)
Location: This acupoint is located on the abdomen, 4 cun below umbilicus and and 0. 5 cun lateral to the anterior midline (see Fig. 53).
Indications: Lower abdominal pain, irregular men-struation, leukorrhea, prolapse of uterus, seminal emis-sion, impotence and hernia.
2.1.9.3.13 Huangshu (KI 16)
Location: This acupoint is located on the center of the abdomen, 0. 5 cun lateral to the umbilicus (see Fig. 53).
Indications. Abdominal pain around the umbilicus, abdominal distension, diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, irregular menstruation, hernia and pain in the loins and spine.
2.1.9.3.14 Shufu (KI 27)
Location: This acupoint is located on the chest, at the lower border of the clavicle and 2 cun lateral to the anterior midline (see Fig. 54)

Indications: Cough, asthma, chest pain, vomiting and anorexia.