Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang
BL
Foot-Taiyang: eye to little toe
- Type：Foot-Taiyang
- Organ：Bladder
- Time of flow：Shen hour (3–5 p.m.)
- Course：Starting at Jingming at the inner eye corner, it goes over the top of the head and runs down the neck and both sides of the back (beside the spine), passes the buttock and the back of the thigh to the popliteal fossa, runs down the back of the lower leg, and ends at Zhiyin on the little toe.
- Traditionally associated with：Headache and neck stiffness, back and low back ache, sciatic-like discomfort, and tightness at the back of the lower leg.
Related acupoints
- Jingming (BL1)：Above the inner eye corner, in the depression on the inner orbital wall
- Cuanzhu (BL2)：Depression at the inner end of the eyebrow, at the supraorbital notch
- Tianzhu (BL10)：Inside the posterior hairline, at the outer edge of the large neck muscle (trapezius)
- Dazhu (BL11)：Below the spinous process of the 1st thoracic vertebra, 1.5 cun lateral
- Fengmen (BL12)：Below the spinous process of the 2nd thoracic vertebra, 1.5 cun lateral
- Feishu (BL13)：About 1.5 cun lateral to the spinous process of the 3rd thoracic vertebra
- Xinshu (BL15)：Below the spinous process of the 5th thoracic vertebra, 1.5 cun lateral
- Geshu (BL17)：About 1.5 cun lateral to the 7th thoracic vertebra, roughly level with the lower angle of the shoulder blade
- Ganshu (BL18)：Below the spinous process of the 9th thoracic vertebra, 1.5 cun lateral
- Pishu (BL20)：Below the spinous process of the 11th thoracic vertebra, 1.5 cun lateral
- Weishu (BL21)：Below the spinous process of the 12th thoracic vertebra, 1.5 cun lateral
- Shenshu (BL23)：About 1.5 cun lateral to the 2nd lumbar vertebra, roughly level with the navel at the back
- Dachangshu (BL25)：About 1.5 cun lateral to the 4th lumbar vertebra, on the line joining the highest points of the iliac crests
- Weizhong (BL40)：Midpoint of the crease at the back of the knee
- Zhibian (BL54)：Upper buttock, about 3 cun lateral to the sacrum
- Chengshan (BL57)：Midline of the back of the lower leg, in the fork-shaped depression below the two calf muscle bellies
- Kunlun (BL60)：Depression between the outer ankle tip and the Achilles tendon
- Zhiyin (BL67)：Outer side of the little toe, about 0.1 cun from the nail corner