UB-60 Kunlun - Kunlun Mountain
More Spirit Names: Kun Lun Mountain, Mount Kunlun
| English: | Kunlun Mountains |
| Also Known As: | Older Brother Storehouse |
Location
- In the depression between the tip of the external malleolus and the Achilles tendon.
Note: locate in the center of the depression.
Needling
- Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Moxibustion is applicable.
- Straight insertion, either joined to KI-3 Taixi or inclined slightly toward the lateral malleolus, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness extending toward the little toe.
- Slanted insertion, needle directed upward or joined to UB-59 Fuyang for treating goiter. Sensation: local distention and soreness, possibly extending to the heel or toe.
- Perpendicular insertion directed superiorly to join with KI-3 Taixi, 1.5 to 2 cun.
Command Functions
- Jing- River point
- Fire point
- Ma Dan-yang Heavenly Star point
Actions
- Disperses Wind
- Descends Excess
- Clears the channel
- Alleviates pain
- Relaxes the sinews and muscles
- Benefits the lower back
- Clears Heat
- Lowers Yang
- Invigorates the Blood
- Promotes labor
Indications
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Combinations
| UB-61 | ||
Laryngeal tuberculosis | Ankle pain | Wheezing |
SI-3 | LIV-8 | |
Pain of the middle and upper back | Headache and dizziness | Wind dizziness and headache |
GB-43 | ||
Head Wind | Heat in the head and rhinitis with epistaxis | Visual dizziness Dimness of vision with bursting eye pain |
Opisthotonis Clonic spasm Epilepsy Headache | Manic raving | Mania Incessant talking without rest |
ST-33 | ||
Wind epilepsy with upward staring eyes | Lumbar pain radiating up the back | Pain of the legs and lumbar region |
UB-62 | ||
Pain of the lumbar region and knee | Redness, swelling and pain of the foot | Pain of the ankle and heel |
GB-31 | LI-15 | |
Painful obstruction of the calf | Wind Stroke with one-sided withering and incessant pain |
Contraindications
- Contraindicated during pregnancy.
Notes
- This is an important point to clear Excess Wind, Fire and Yang from the upper part of the body.
- This is a key point for testing heroine and cocaine addiction, it will be tender.
- Kunlun is a mountain range near tibet. It is also a name for Mount Everest and a name for Chinese Paradise - the source of enlightenment.
- This point stimulates the pituitary gland and the testes.
- When using this point, you are contacting the persons Spirit with the essence and quality of Fire and warming it.
- This point is better for chronic rather than acute back pain and better for Deficiency than Excess.
- One source says to use UB-60 Kunlun for the upper back and UB-40 Weizhong for the lower back.
Five Elements Spirit Perspective
| Spirit of the Point | Kunlun Mountain is a very spiritual and amazing place, often referred to as a grand, important place. A mountain is the home of the gods, and these mountains on the Chinese border, around a vermilion lake and believed to be where the Yellow River rises, were said to grant immortality to those who climbed them. As the Fire point, it is excellent for warming up the Bladder when it is cold, when water is frozen in fright or fear; it cracks the ice at every level and starts things moving, and like Water, Fire can be very purifying. Water has to be warm enough to move, spread and flow freely. Frozen or cold, it leaves life without joy or warmth; someone so frozen with fear can have no joy, laughter or fun, and laughter is like sunshine that clears the spirit. This point is a wall of ice melting. The old teaching speaks of the spirit of life embodied in Water: here we touch the person's spirit, connecting Water with essence and with Fire in an alchemical transformation. |
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| Worsley | This sacred Taoist paradise calls us inward to discover the paradise that rests there, longing to welcome us. Chinese legend places the Jade Palace of the Yellow Emperor, mythical creator of Chinese culture, in the Kunlun range, along with the dwelling of the Queen Mother of the West, the spirit mother nestled within the mountains. Here we drink from the never-ending reservoir of the Tao's three jewels, compassion, moderation and humility, which strengthen our relationship with the cosmos and fill us with the warm, radiant glow of the divine.
Location: Over the peroneal artery, halfway from the most prominent part of the outer ankle bone (lateral malleolus) to the Achilles tendon. |
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From Class
- SI-3 + BL-60: Open Du Mai with SI-3 needled strongly (fire), then contralateral BL-60 gently (water); men start left, women right (per Jeffrey Yuen). (Alexander)
- BL-40 Weizhong: Command point for the low back; needle with knees bent; used to open the back after needling a spinal ashi point. (Yuen)
- BL-60 Kunlun: Can match BL-40. (Yuen)
- BL-60 Kunlun: We carry Kunlun, the sacred center, inside us as the point on the outer ankle; the Daoist teaching at death is 'hold on to the center' (Zhong). (Lewis)
- BL-60 Kunlun: Can be needled any time it feels appropriate to help the spirit go to its resting place (Kunlun Mountain) between lives. (Lewis)
- BL-60 Kunlun — 'the magic death point': Represents death and the underworld; a welcoming into the land of death. (Lewis)
- Metropolis (du) points: SP-2, KI-19, LV-6: For those who feel unredeemable: SP-2 Dadu lifts yang from 'hell'; KI-19 Yindu regulates Chong and Ren; LV-6 Zhongdu analgesic, for heavy bleeding. (Yuen)