Feature:

Xing Jian: Ying-Spring and Fire point of the Liver channel

穴位特点：五腧穴之荥穴（五行属火）。

Location:

On the dorsum of the foot, between the first and second toes, 0.5 cun proximal to the margin of the web.

The Location of Xing Jian LV-2 from A Manual of Acupuncture by Deadman

Needling:

0.5 to 1 cun obliquely towards the heel, or perpendicular insertion 0.5 cun to 0.8 cun. (斜刺0.5到1寸，针尖向足跟，或直刺0.5到0.8寸。)

Action:

1. Clear Liver fire (清肝火)

2. Spreads Liver Qi (疏肝气)

3. Pacifies Liver wind (熄肝风)

4. Clears heat and stops bleeding (清热止血)

5. Benefits the lower jiao (利下焦)

Indications:

1. Headache, dizziness, redness and pain of the eyes, lacrimation, eye diseases.

头痛，眩晕，目赤目痛，流泪，眼疾。

2. Nosebleed, thirst, burning heat of the face, dark green complexion, death-like green colour.

鼻衄，口渴，面部灼热，面色深绿，绿入死色。

3. Throat painful obstruction, dry throat with agitation and thirst, clutching sensation in the throat, bitter taste in the mouth, heat in the body.

咽喉阻塞疼痛，咽干而烦渴，咽紧，口苦，身有热。

4. Propensity to anger, sadness, propensity to fright, closes eyes and has no desire to look, excessive fright and little strength, propensity to fear as if seeing ghosts, madness, insomnia, palpitation, epilepsy, loss of consciousness, chronic and acute childhood fright wind.

习惯性愤怒，悲伤，习惯性惊恐，闭目不敢视，过度惊恐而无力，习惯性恐惧若见鬼状，悲伤，失眠，心悸，癫痫，失去意识，急慢性小儿惊风。

5. Contracted sinews, windstroke, fullness of the four limbs, deviation of the mouth, tetany, hypertension. Pain and itching of the genitals, pain of the penis, sudden involuntary erection, the seven kinds of shan disorder, cold shan disorder, painful urinary dysfunction, enuresis, retention of urine, difficult urination, white turbidity, red and white leucorrhoea, cold or damp diarrhoea, constipation, abdominal distention.

肌肉痉挛，中风，四肢满，口歪，手足抽搐，高血压。阴部痛痒，阴茎痛，阴挺，七种疝气，寒疝，淋症，遗尿，尿滁留，小便难，浊淋，赤白带，寒湿带，便秘，腹胀。

6. Incessant uterine bleeding, menorrhagia, inhibited menstruation, early menstruation, lower abdominal fullness, abdominal (Jia) masses in women, difficult lactation.

持续性子宫出血，月经过多，行经不畅，月经提前，小腹满，癥瘕，哺乳困难。

7. Coughing blood, vomiting, pain of the Heart and the Liver, distention and pain of the chest and lateral costal region, pain of the chest and back, pain below the Heart, much sighing, inability to catch the breath all day long, difficulty in catching the breath, shortness of breath.

咳血，呕吐，心痛肝痛，胸胁胀痛，胸背痛，心下疼，善太息，喘不续接，气短。

8. Four limbs counterflow cold, wasting and thirsting disorder with desire to drink, malaria, lotus flower tongue in children.

四肢厥逆，消渴欲饮，疟疾，小儿莲花舌。

9. Lumbar pain with difficulty in flexing and extending the back, swelling of the knee, pain of the inner aspect of the leg, heat in the shin, leg qi with redness and swelling, pain and swelling of the instep.

腰痛难以屈伸，膝肿，腿内侧疼痛，胫骨发热，腿部红肿，脚背肿痛。