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POINT: ST-36 (STOMACH-36)  

English: Leg Three Miles
Also Known As: Three Measures on the Leg
Foot Three Miles
  • Below the knee, 3 cun inferior to ST-35 Dubi, one finger breadth lateral to the anterior crest of the tibia.
    Locate GB-34 Yanglingquan, ST-36, Zusanli lies one cun inferior and one finger breadth lateral to the anterior crest of the tibia.
    Locate one handbreadth below ST-35 Dubi.
  • Perpendicular insertion 1 to 1.5 cun.
  • Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1.2 cun.
  • He-Sea point of the Stomach channel
  • Earth point of the Stomach channel
  • Gao Wu Command point
  • Ma Dan-Yang Heavenly Star point
  • Point of the Sea of Water and Grain (Food), (Nourishment)
  • Uniting point of the stomach channel
  • Divine objectivity point
  • Immunization point
  • Center Reunion Particular point of energy
  • He-Sea point of the upper Jiao
  • Vitality and longevity point
  • Harmonizes the Spleen and Stomach
  • Fortifies the Spleen
  • Regulates Qi and Blood
  • Resolves Dampness
  • Supports the righteous Qi
  • Fosters the Original Qi
  • Tonifies Qi
  • Nourishes Blood
  • Nourishes Yin
  • Clears Fire
  • Calms the Shen
  • Activates the channel
  • Alleviates pain
  • Revives the Yang
  • Dispels Cold
  • Restores consciousness
  • Strengthens the body
  • Strengthens weak and deficient conditions
  • Brightens the eyes
  • Regulates the Ying and Wei
  • Regulates the Intestines
  • Expels Wind and Dampness
  • Resolves edema
  • Regulates Qi contravection in the Stomach and Intestines
  • Reduces digestive Stagnation
  • Regulates the Stomach Qi and Yin
  • Regulates the Middle and Lower Jiaos
  • Drains pathogenic influences from the Stomach
  • Calms the fetus
  • Stimulates the parathyroids
  • Epigastric pain
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Bitter vomiting
  • Vomiting pus and Blood
  • Hiccup
  • Belching
  • Distention and pain of the abdomen
  • Fullness and distention of the Heart and abdomen
  • Heat in the Middle Jiao with propensity to hunger
  • Hunger with no desire to eat
  • Poor appetite
  • Difficult ingestion
  • Borborygmus
  • Borborygmus with constipation
  • Flatulence
  • Diarrhea and dysenteric disorder
  • Undigested food in the stool
  • Dizziness
  • Postpartum Blood dizziness
  • Dizziness of vision
  • Tinnitus
  • Palpitations
  • Hypertension
  • Outrageous laughter
  • Agitation with Heat in the body
  • Throat Bi with inability to speak
  • Chills and fever
  • Febrile disease with absence of sweat
  • Febrile disease with heavy head and pain of the forehead
  • Headache
  • Cold nose
  • Pain of the brain
  • Lockjaw
  • Clonic spasm
  • Loss of consciousness
  • Pain of the thigh and shin
  • Hemiplegia
  • Muscle pain
  • Shan disorder
  • Acute and chronic enteritis
  • Ulcers
  • Acute pancreatitis
  • Anemia
  • Seizures
  • Reproductive system diseases
  • Neurasthenia
  • Paralysis
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Emaciation
  • Anorexia
  • Cardiac arrhythmia
  • Maxillary pain
  • Beriberi
  • Diseases with Heat at the top of the body and Cold below
  • Insomnia due to digestive disorder
  • Childhood nutritional impairment
  • Pulmonary tuberculosis
  • Chronic consumptive disorders
  • Restless fetus disorder due to Qi Deficiency
  • Chronic urticaria and eczema due to Blood Deficiency
  • Leukorrhea
  • Hepatitis
  • Mastitis
  • Intestinal abscess
  • Cold Bi
  • Facial paralysis or pain
  • Splenomegaly
  • Hard abdominal masses or tumors
  • Urolithiasis
  • Intestinal or biliary parasites
  • Paralysis of the dorsiflexor of the foot
  • First aid for poisoning and food poisoning
  • Eye diseases
  • Depression
  • Abdominal distention
  • Abdominal pain
  • Pain of the knee and calf
  • Knee painful and weak
  • Aching low back and legs
  • Stomach pain
  • Gastric spasms
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Intestinal carbuncle
  • Peritonitis
  • Singing, laughing abusing
  • All nervous system disorders
  • Acute pancreatitis
  • Cutaneous edema
  • Difficult urination
  • Epilepsy
  • Allergies
  • Loss of urine
  • Esophageal cancer
  • Cannot swallow food
  • Sensations of strong Heat in the abdomen
  • Jaundice
  • Diseases of the reproductive system
  • Lumbago
  • Sensation of energy rising from the abdomen to the upper body
  • Very high fever
  • Great chills
  • All mouth problems
  • Cholera
  • Arteriosclerosis
  • Renal Bi syndrome
  • Torticollis
  • Cold in the Middle Jiao with borborygmus
  • Cold in the Intestines
  • Chronic diarrhea
  • Sudden turmoil disorder
  • Leg Qi
  • Edema
  • Heaviness of the four limbs
  • Lower abdominal pain and swelling with inability to urinate
  • Lower abdomen hard
  • Jaundice
  • The five taxations and seven injuries
  • The seven injuries
  • Insufficiency of Yuan Qi
  • Insufficiency of Zang Qi
  • Insufficiency of Stomach Qi
  • Deficient dyspnea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Cough
  • Cough with profuse Phlegm
  • Shortness of breath with inability to stand for long
  • Mania-depression
  • Manic singing
  • Raving
  • Abusive talk
  • Anger
  • Fright
  • Tendency to sadness
  • Pain of the lateral costal region
  • Blood Stasis in the Interior
  • Blood Stasis in the chest
  • Sudden Heart pain
  • Fullness of the chest and lateral costal region
  • Qi rushing up to the chest (Running Piglet)
  • Breast abscess
  • Swelling of the breast
  • Pain of the knee and shin
  • Windstroke
  • Chronic Bi
  • Lumbar pain with inability to turn
  • Acute and chronic gastritis
  • Indigestion and other disorders of the digestive system
  • Shock
  • General weakness
  • Pleurisy
  • Asthma
  • Enuresis
  • Constipation
  • Edema of the limbs
  • Fatigue
  • Bi syndrome of the knees
  • Blood Stagnation in the abdomen
  • Problems with the mouth
  • Dysphagia
  • External pathogens located in the tendons, bones, flesh and vessels
  • Dysmenorrhea due to Cold
  • Diaphragmatic spasms
  • Chronic nephritis
  • Qi- type painful urinary dysfunction
  • The five types of painful urinary dysfunction
  • Late menstruation due to Blood Deficiency
  • Impotence
  • Acute diseases of the biliary tract
  • Appendicitis
  • Abandoned-type Windstroke
  • Collapse syndrome due to Deficiency
  • Acute lower back pain
  • Hardened lymph nodes in the groin
  • Organ prolapse, especially the Stomach and Intestines
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Insufficient lactation due to Deficiency
  • Car sickness
  • Tinnitus
  • High Blood pressure
  • Fear of the future
  • Dyspepsia
  • Ascites
  • Aching of the knee and leg
  • Rheumatism of the knee
  • Imperception and neuralgia of the lower limb
  • Pain in the Kidneys with weak knees
  • Abdominal pain and distention
  • No sweating but vomits often
  • Breast carbuncle
  • Psychosis
  • Mental disorders
  • Vertigo
  • Swelling of the limbs
  • Edema of the legs due to Dampness
  • Asthenia
  • Abortion
  • Pain control
  • Inflammation of the abdomen
  • Inflammation of the Small Intestine
  • Intestinal tuberculosis
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • Common cold
  • Mutism
  • The five types of tuberculosis
  • Long lasting fever
  • Hernia
  • Sore throat preventing speech
  • Yin problems in the Stomach
  • Anxiety
  • Violent Heart pain
  • Atony of the four limbs
  • Swelling of the lower jaw
  • Postpartum syncope

LU-9
Taiyuan

REN-6
Qihai

REN-21
Xuanji

Insufficiency of Yuan Qi, deficient dyspnea, dyspnea with inability to stand for long, coughing and shortness of breath

Frequently use moxibustion for young people whose Qi is feeble

Infernal injury by accumulation of Food in the Stomach

SP-4
Gongsun
ST-41
Jiexi
REN-12
Zhongwan

LU-10
Yuji
PC-6
Neiguan

UB-45
Yixi

Stagnation of Food in the mid-abdomen and stabbing pain that does not cease

Difficult ingestion

Abdominal fullness

ST-44
Neiting

KI-10
Yingu

REN-10
Xiawan

All types of diarrhea and abdominal disorders

Sudden turmoil disorder

Undigested food in the stool and vomiting immediately after eating (first needle REN-10, then reduce ST-36)

LU-10
Yuji
ST-39
Xiajuxu
GB-43
Xiaxi
UB-40
Weizhong
GB-41
Zulinqi
SI-1
Shaoze

UB-25
Dachangshu
SP-6
Sanyinjiao
REN-10
Xiawan
UB-22
Sanjiaoshu
DU-5
Xuanshu

ST-21
Liangmen

ST-9
Renying
PC-6
Neiguan
SJ-1
Guanchong
SP-6
Sanyinjiao

Breast abscess

Undigested food in the stool

Sudden turmoil disorder, headache, chest pain and dyspneic rales

LI-4
Hegu
UB-29
Zhonglushu

REN-12
Zhongwan
REN-6
Qihai

SJ-6
Zhigou

Dysenteric disorders

Blood in the stool

Deficiency constipation (Reduce ST-36 and reinforce SJ-6)

HT-8
Shaofu

REN-12
Zhongwan

LU-7
Lieque

Difficult urination or retention of urine

Jaundice with weakness of the four limbs

Acute dyspnea

UB-18
Ganshu

SJ-6
Zhigou

SP-6
Sanyinjiao

UB-67
Zhiyin

Liver Blood Deficiency with cloudy vision

Postpartum dizziness

Hastens delivery

SP-1
Yinbai

PC-6
Neiguan
REN-12
Zhongwan

UB-40
Weizhong
UB-57
Chengshan

Hemorrhage (moxa ST-36 and needle SP-1)

Abdominal pain

Feebleness of the legs

UB-13
Feishu
GB-32
Zhongdu
GB-30
Huantiao

SP-6
Sanyinjiao

GB-39
Xuanzhong
SP-6
Sanyinjiao

Atrophy disorder (moxa ST-36 and UB-13 and needle the others)

Cold-Damp leg Qi

Leg Qi

GB-21
Jianjing
GB-34
Yanglingquan

ST-33
Yinshi
LIV-7
Xiguan
UB-40
Weizhong

LIV-3
Taichong
LIV-4
Zhongfeng

Pain and soreness of leg Qi (first needle GB-21 then the others)

Redness, pain and swelling of the knees

Inability to walk

difficulty and pain when walking

ST-35
Dubi
LIV-7
Xiguan
GB-34
Yanglingquan

LI-15
Jianyu
GB-39
Xuanzhong
KI-3
Taixi
LI-11
Quchi

UB-60
Kunlun

PC-5
Jianshi
DU-20
Baihui
KI-7
Fuliu
KI-10
Yingu

Disorders of the knees and below the knees (moxa all points)

Windstroke with one-sided withering and incessant pain

Mania

LI-4
Hegu
LI-11
Quchi

GB-39
Xuanzhong
DU-14
Dazhui
KI-1
Yongquan

ST-39
Xiajuxu
GB-34
Yanglingquan
PC-6
Neiguan

LI-4
Hegu
PC-6
Neiguan
REN-12
Zhongwan
ST-25
Tianshu
UB-25
Dachangshu
UB-32
Ciliao

Injury by Cold with great Heat that does not recede (reduce all points)

Pancreatitis

Acute Intestinal obstruction

LI-4
Hegu
ST-25
Tianshu
REN-4
Guanyuan

ST-19
Burong

 

Indigestion

Accumulated Qi

 

  • Forbidden during the eighth month of pregnancy.
  • Do not moxa children under seven years old.
  • It is said that by using this point, all diseases can be treated.
  • This is the single most important point in the body to stimulate the actions of the Stomach and Spleen to generate Qi and Blood.
  • Daily use of moxibustion on this point preserves and maintains health and extends life.
  • This point has a direct effect on the Stomach.
  • Reinforcing needling of this point stimulates gastric motility and secretion of gastric acid to stimulate appetite and improve digestion.
  • It is said that when one is over thirty years old, one must moxa this point to send energy to the eyes.