Gallbladder Channel
Abdomen Capital
京门Jīng MénAnatomical location
On the free border of the 12th rib, level with the navel.
Main function
Regulates the Kidney, relieves low back pain.
- Front-Mu point of the Kidney
Therapeutic indications
- Low back pain
- edema
- dysuria
- lumbago
- costal pain
- abdominal distension
- diarrhea
- borborygmi
Name and classical tradition
Jingmen, 京门, is the "Capital Gate." 京 is the capital, the great city, and in its classical use also a great storehouse, an accumulation; 门 is the gate. Jingmen is the Front-Mu point (募穴) of the Kidney, and the reference works read the name from there: the gateway to the great reservoir of water, which is the Kidney. The reading is consistent with its use for regulating Body Fluids, although no classical commentary supports it.
Like its neighbor GB24, sources trace it to Wang Shuhe's Maijing (Pulse Classic), with no verified literal citation. It has two alternate names that stress Qi: 气府, "Qi Storehouse," and 气俞, "Qi Transport Point." It is a curious point on the Atlas map, because the Gallbladder channel houses here the alarm point of an organ that is not its own.
Other names
- 氣府Jiayi Jing
- 氣俞Jiayi Jing
