Diwuhui

1. 01Between the fourth and fifth metatarsals, in the hollow proximal to the metatarsal heads, medial to the extensor digitorum longus tendon's branch to the little toe.
2. 02Between the fourth and fifth metatarsals, 1 cun proximal to GB-43 Xiaxi.
3. 03Behind the fourth metatarsophalangeal joint, between the fourth and fifth metatarsals, medial to extensor digiti minimi of the foot.

1. 01Insert perpendicularly, 0.3 to 0.8 cun. Note: an incorrect angle will keep the needle from passing between the shafts of the fourth and fifth metatarsal bones.
2. 02Needle straight in, 0.3 to 0.5 cun.

• ·Courses Liver Qi
• ·Clears Heat from the Gall Bladder

• ·Headache
• ·Itching, redness and pain of the eyes
• ·Tinnitus
• ·Deafness
• ·Redness, swelling and pain on the dorsum of the foot
• ·Lumbar pain
• ·Foot neuralgia
• ·Low back pain
• ·Chest fullness
• ·Hypochondriac pain
• ·Axillary swelling and pain
• ·Breast distention and pain
• ·Breast abscess
• ·Blood-spitting from internal injury
• ·Arthritis
• ·Mastitis
• ·Canthus pain

One major classical text prohibits moxibustion here, warning that its use is followed by emaciation and death within three years; modern sources, however, agree that moxibustion is not actually contraindicated at this point.