Feature：

Hui Meeting point for Marrow.

穴位特点：八脉交会穴--髓会

Location:

Above the ankle joint, 3 cun superior to the prominence of the lateral malleolus, between the posterior boarder of the fibula and the tendons of peroneus longus and brevis.

(临床寻找此穴，大约在外踝尖正上方一横掌的位置)

The Location of Xuan Zhong GB-39 from A Manual of Acupuncture by Deadman

Needling:

Perpendicular insertion 1 to 1.5 cun.

(临床上应注意：用一只手的食指将peroneal tendons从fibula分开，在凹槽处向后方进针0.5寸，然后直刺，避免刺到fibula。)

Actions:

1. Benefits the sinews and bones (利肌肉与骨)

2. Benefits the neck (利项)

3. Dispels wind-damp (祛风湿)

4. Clears Gall Bladder fire (清胆火)

5. Activates the channel and alleviates pain (通经止痛)

Indications:

1. Stiffness and pain of the neck, atrophy disorder, chronic painful obstruction, wind-taxation with heaviness of the body, injury by cold pathogen leading to taxation, deficiency-taxation, contracted sinews and pain of the bones, hip pain, numbness and pain of the knee and lower leg, sciatica, leg qi, sprain of the ankle joint, flaccidity of the foot.

脖子僵硬疼痛，痿证，慢性阻塞性疼痛，风邪侵袭身体重，寒邪侵袭导致的劳症，虚劳，肌肉抽搐骨痛，臀部疼痛，膝盖和小腿麻木疼痛，坐骨神经痛，脚踝挫伤，足软无力。

2. Hemiplegia, headache, dizziness, throat painful obstruction, nosebleed, dryness of the nose.

偏瘫，头痛，眩晕，咽痛闭塞，鼻衄，鼻干。

3. Distention and fullness of the chest and abdomen, counterflow qi and cough, soreness and pain of the lateral costal region, swelling of the axilla.

胸腹胀满，气逆咳嗽，胁肋酸痛，腋肿。

4. Fullness of the abdomen in children with inability to eat or drink, fullness and distention of the Heart and abdomen, heat in the Stomach, no pleasure in eating, watery diarrhoea.

小儿腹满不能饮食，心下胀满，胃热，纳差，水样大便。

5. Injury by cold leading to heat with persistent fever, haemorrhoids, agitation and fullness, mania, anxiety, indignation and anger, the five types of painful urinary dysfunction.

伤寒持续发热，痔疮，烦满，狂躁，焦躁，愤怒，五淋。