Bladder Channel
Golden Gate
金门Jīn MénAnatomical location
On the lateral border of the foot, posterior and inferior to the tuberosity of the fifth metatarsal.
Main function
Xi-Cleft point, relieves pain, expels Wind, calms convulsions.
- Xi-Cleft point
Therapeutic indications
- Foot pain
- low back pain
- sciatica
- epilepsy
- convulsions
- headache
- Acute lumbago
- Infantile convulsions
- Foot and ankle pain
- Deafness
Name and classical tradition
Jinmen, 金门, is the “golden gate.” 金 is gold, or metal, which may allude to the Metal phase or simply to something precious; 门 is the gate. Reference works offer another, more concrete explanation: “穴以有骨橫于其上,” the point is named for a bone lying across it, a reference to the fifth metatarsal. That anatomical reading fits its alternate name, 關梁, “beam of the barrier,” which also suggests a transverse bony structure.
Jinmen is the Xi-Cleft point (郄穴) of the Bladder, and the tradition also regards it as a meeting point with the Yang Wei Mai. The classical citation for that affiliation has not been verified.
Other names
- 關梁Jiayi Jing
