08 KI10 Yingu Yin Valley 陰谷
KI10 Yingu
Yin Valley

陰谷穴

LOCATION

With the knee flexed, on the medial side of the popliteal fossa, between the tendons of semitendinosus and semimenbranosus.

Features

He/Sea Point.

Body Inches (cun)

Each person has his/her own personal body inches.
One cun is equal to the width of the Knuckle of the thumb.

Nerves, vascular

Medial femoral cutaneous nerve, medial arteries and veins above the knee.

Indication

Urinary tract infection,asynodia,spermatorrhea,penile pain;vaginitis,vulvitis,dysfunctional uterine bleeding;gestritis,enteritis;epilepsy,psychiatry;pruritus vulvae,knee arthritis. Clears damp or damp-heat in the lower warmer – urgent/difficult urination, genital pain/itching, leukorrhea, uterine bleeding.

Combinations

Cholera:KI 10 & ST 36.
Vaginal pain,pruritus vulvae:KI 10 & LI 11 & SP 10 & CV 02.
Asynodia,difficulty in urination a.:KI 10 & BL 23 & CV 04.
Difficulty in urination b.:CV 04 & KI 10.
Dark urine:KI 10 & KI 03 & BL 23 & CV 06 & BL 28 & CV 04.
Leukorrhea,pruritus vulvae,scrotum eczema:CV 04 & BL 31 & KI 10.

穴位

在膕窩內側,屈膝時,當半腱肌肌腱與半膜肌肌腱之間。

特點

合(水)穴。

同身寸

針灸取穴比量法。出自《千金要方》。

是指以患者本人體表的某些部位折定分寸,

作为量取穴位的長度單位。

穴區神經血管

股內側皮神經,膝上內側動、靜脈。

適應症

泌尿系感染,陽痿,遺精,陰莖痛;陰道炎,外陰炎,功能性子宮出血;胃炎,腸炎;癲癇,精神病;陰癢,膝關節炎。

穴位配伍療法

霍亂:1.陰谷 2.足三里
陰痛,陰癢:1.陰谷 2.曲池 3.血海 4.曲骨
陽痿,小便難:1.陰谷 2.腎俞 3.關元
小便不利,癃閉:1.關元 2.陰谷
小便黃赤:1.陰谷 2.太溪 3.腎俞 4.氣海 5.膀胱俞 6.關元
白帶過多、陰痒、陰囊濕疹:1.關元 2.上髎 3.陰谷