Stomach Channel of Foot Yang Ming- An Introduction

Stomach Channel of Foot-Yang Ming 足阳明胃经

Stomach Channel starts from the lateral side of the nose, travels upward to the root of nose where it meets the Channel of Foot-Taiyang. Turning downward along the lateral side of the nose, it enters the upper gum. Curving around the lips, it meets Chengjiang (CV 24) in the mentolabial groove. It then travels to the posterior aspect of the mandible passing through the facial artery, ascending in front of the ear and following the anterior hairline, it reaches the forehead. Its cheek branch splits from the front of Daying (ST 5) point and passes through the carotid artery. Passing along the throat it enters the supraclavicular fossa, further descends and passes through the diaphragm, and then enters its penetrating organ, Stomach, and connects to the Spleen, the related organ. The straight branch of the channel in the chest and abdomen arises from the supraclavicular fossa, which descends and passes through the Nipple (4 cun lateral to the midline). It then reaches to the lateral side of the umbilicus (2cun lateral to the anterior midline of abdomen) and enters the inguinal groove, where it merges with the previous branch of the channel. It further descends to front of the Coxa joint, reaches the quadriceps muscle and enters the knee. It continuous further down along the anterior border of the lateral aspect of the tibia to the dorsum of foot and reaches the lateral side of the tip of second toe. The tibial branch of the channel splits from the place 3 cun below the knee and runs downwards and ends at the lateral side of the middle toe. Another branch on the foot emerges from the dorsum of the foot to enter the medial side of the tip of the big toe, where it links with the spleen channel.

Indications of Stomach Channel of Foot-Yang Ming: Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines, Disorders of head, Face and five sense organs, mental diseases, and Febrile diseases.