The knee gathers three cun of the leg, the he-sea and the stomach channel. It is the natural close of the first week if day 4 was ST36.
The eye and the point below
ST35 (Dubi) is studied in the lateral depression of the knee, knee flexed in the classical texts: the lateral eye. ST36 is not on the knee: it is about 3 cun below, one finger lateral to the tibia. Mixing them is the typical error of a first location.
GB34 and the spleen
GB34 is studied in the depression anterior and inferior to the head of the fibula. SP9 is in the depression below the medial tibial condyle, on the spleen channel. Lateral and medial do not swap: the cun does not fix a wrong side.
Study order
Knee symptom map, ST35 sheet, down to ST36 counting cun, and close on GB34. The 3D leg shows that the point does not float under the patella.
Symptom mapST35ST36GB34What a cun is
Questions
- Is ST36 a knee point?
- It is studied from the knee, measuring downward. The sheet and the 3D place it on the leg, not in the joint line.
- Does this rehabilitate a knee?
- No. It is location and channel vocabulary. An injured knee is not atlas homework.
Study reference within traditional Shiatsu/TCM frameworks. Does not diagnose or treat.