water · yin
Kidney KI
足少阴肾经
Zu Shaoyin Shen Jing
Begins on the sole, circles the inner ankle, climbs the inner leg, and travels the abdomen and chest toward the collarbone.
Yin water channel, paired with Bladder. KI6 opens the Yin Qiao vessel.
- Essence and deep reserves, as teaching language
- Low back, ears, and bones
- Fear in the five-element set
- The inner ankle and sole
- Organ system
- Kidney
- Teaching clock
- 5–7 p.m.
Paired with Bladder.
Points in this atlas
6 of 27 classical numbers. Add the missing ones in order beside their neighbors.
Gushing Spring
Sole of the foot, the well point used for settling down.
Great Ravine
Inner ankle hollow, the Kidney source point.
Use caution
Shining Sea
Just below the inner ankle, opening the Yin Qiao.
Use caution
Returning Current
Just above the inner ankle, along the Achilles.
Yin Valley
Inner end of the knee crease.
Shu Mansion
Under the collarbone. Location study more than deep pressure.
Use caution
Herbs that enter Kidney
Eucommia bark
Warms and supports the low back and the kidneys in textbook language.
Poria
A mild fungus that leaches damp and quiets the heart in textbooks.
Goji berry
A food-like fruit for liver and kidney yin, especially the eyes in texts.
Phellodendron bark
Clears damp-heat in the lower body in textbook language.
Dragon bone
A heavy mineral substance used to settle the spirit.
Cinnamon bark
Hot bark that returns fire to the source, in the classical phrase.
Cornus fruit
Astringes and supports liver and kidney yin.
Prepared rehmannia
The heavy blood and yin tonic. Prepared root, not the raw one.
Schisandra fruit
Astringes the lung and is said to hold leaking qi.
Epimedium
The kidney-yang herb students meet when textbooks discuss erectile difficulty.
Alisma rhizome
Drains damp from the lower body and is said to settle ministerial fire.
Anemarrhena rhizome
Clears heat and also moistens, unlike the drying bitters.