Answer to 2026 1st Quarter Name That Point

Name That Point by Amy Watson, MA, VetMB, MRCVS, GDVCHM, CVA, ACVCHM, CCRT

In horses I am located in a depression on the caudolateral aspect of the 3rd metacarpal bone, halfway from the
carpus to the fetlock, just cranial to the deep digital flexor tendon. In small animals I am located on the palmar
surface between the 4th and 5th metacarpal bones, proximal to the metacarpophalangeal joint, just proximal to
the metacarpal pad. I am the Fire, Ying-Spring and Horary point of my channel. I calm the spirit, regulate Heart
Qi, activate the channel and alleviate pain.

As a Ying-Spring point I am clearing Heat from the Heart and my Yang partner, the Small Intestine
(Hand Tai Yang), and therefore from the Bladder as it is the Foot Tai Yang. This reflects in a variety of
urogenital indications, like difficult urination, enuresis and itching of the genitals, especially if they are
accompanied by emotional symptoms like hypomania, sleeplessness and other heat symptoms like sores of the
mouth and tongue and thirst. Furthermore, I regulate Heart Qi predominantly in cases of both deficiency and
stagnation appearing as arrhythmias and treat any disorders along my channel, such as pain in the shoulder,
axilla and elbow, stiffness of the tongue, and pain in the throat. Because the Heart is connected to the Uterus
Vessel (Bao Mai) I can be used to treat prolapses of the uterus.

The author mainly uses this point bilaterally as part of the four-needle technique of the 5-element approach
to treat a deficient Spleen as it is the Element point of the Mother channel of the Spleen. In addition, she
likes to treat this point in animals that have pain on the medial side of the forelimb, e.g. in the area of the
Proc. Coronoideus or when abduction of the leg is painful. Also, idiopathic cystitis, lick alopecia and juvenile
vaginitis, when accompanied by (Heat) symptoms like manic manipulation of the area, hyperactivity and
restlessness might be indications in which this point can be considered.

What Point am I? I am Shao Fu, Lesser Yin Mansion or HT-8.