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POINT: SP-1 (SPLEEN-1)  

English: Hidden White
Also Known As: Retired White
Hidden Clarity
  • On the medial side of the big toe, 0.1 cun posterior to the corner of the nail.
  • At the medial aspect of the big toe, approximately 0.1 cun lateral to the lower corner of the cuticle.
  • On the dorsal aspect of the big toe, at the junction of the lines drawn along the medial border of the nail and the base of the nail, approximately 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail.
  • Puncture subcutaneously 0.1 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Slanted insertion in a proximal direction 0.1 to 0.2 cun, causing local pain. Alternatively, prick the point to draw a few drops of Blood.
  • Perpendicular or oblique insertion directed proximately, 0.1 to 0.2 cun, or prick to bleed.
  • Jing-Well point
  • Wood point
  • Entry point
  • Sun Si-miao Ghost point
  • Strengthens the Spleen
  • Regulates the Spleen
  • Regulates the Blood
  • Calms the Heart and Shen
  • Regulates menstruation
  • Stops bleeding
  • Unbinds the chest
  • Restores consciousness
  • Bleeding in any part of the body
  • Uterine bleeding
  • Epistaxis
  • Hematuria
  • Mental restlessness
  • Depression
  • Excessive dreaming
  • Paralysis, especially of the legs
  • Asthma
  • Severe mental imbalance
  • Leg spasms when lying down
  • Temper tantrums in children
  • Cold hands and feet
  • All menstrual disorders
  • Childhood convulsions
  • Anorexia
  • Prolonged menstruation
  • Nausea
  • Chest and epigastric fullness and pain
  • Sudden diarrhea
  • Dream-disturbed sleep
  • Infantile convulsions with diarrhea
  • Chronic infantile convulsions
  • Vomiting, cannot swallow anything
  • Strong diarrhea
  • Dyspepsia
  • Emergency care
  • Sleepiness
  • Dyspnea preventing lying down
  • Febrile disease with nosebleed
  • Difficult ingestion
  • Agitation
  • Chronic childhood fright-Wind
  • Nightmares
  • Swelling
  • Suffocation
  • Vomiting
  • Heat in the chest
  • Diarrhea
  • Syncope
  • Cold feet
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Chronic convulsions
  • Epilepsy
  • Abdominal distention
  • Hemafecia
  • Menorrhagia
  • Mental disorders
  • Convulsions
  • Mania
  • Melancholia
  • Insomnia
  • Bleeding of the digestive tract
  • Psychosis
  • Schizophrenia
  • Spasms of the uterus
  • Moria (morbid tendency to joke)
  • Acute enteritis
  • Vomiting and diarrhea in cholera
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Stye (hordeolum)
  • Cold legs
  • Sudden swelling of the four limbs
  • No desire to eat or drink
  • Sighing
  • Propensity to sadness
  • Fever with anhidrosis
  • Menorrhagia

REN-6
Qihai
SP-10
Xuehai
SP-6
Sanyinjiao

ST-36
Zusanli

UB-40
Weizhong

Abnormal uterine bleeding

Uterine or rectal bleeding

Severe nosebleeds that will not stop

ST-36 (moxa)
Zusanli

ST-25
Tianshu
ST-44
Neiting

REN-6
Qihai
KI-6
Zhaohai
PC-6
Neiguan

UB-20
Pishu
UB-18
Ganshu
REN-13
Shangwan

Hemorrhage

Red (bloody) dysenteric disorder

Vomiting Blood

Spontaneous External bleeding

UB-57
Chengshan
UB-58
Feiyang
UB-60
Kunlun
UB-64
Jinggu

LU-1
Zhongfu
LU-2
Yunmen
LIV-14
Qimen
UB-13
Feishu
UB-47
Hunmen
PC-7
Daling

LU-9
Taiyuan
SP-04
Gongsun
UB-13
Feishu
SP-9
Yinlingquan
SP-6
Sanyinjiao

Heat in the head and rhinitis with nosebleed

Chest pain

Agitation and oppression with inability to lie down

HT-7
Shenmen
PC-6
Neiguan
SI-3
Houxi
UB-15
Xinshu

ST-45
Lidui

LIV-1
Dadun

Epilepsy

Nightmares

Loss of consciousness

  • Contraindicated during pregnancy.
  • This point is normally used for Excess patterns of the Spleen and Stomach.
  • It is one of the foremost points to strengthen the Spleen's function of holding Blood.
  • It is especially used to treat Blood Stasis in the uterus.
  • A special used is with moxa to stop bleeding from any part of the body, especially the uterus.
  • Tonify to increase concentration.
  • This points calms the mind and creates equilibrium and joy.
  • It stimulates the pancreas and helps lower insulin intake for diabetics.