How many bladder meridians are there?

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are 12 main meridians in the human body. Each meridian plays a different role, and each meridian has many different branches. The bladder meridian is an important meridian among the 12 meridians, but the bladder meridian also has many different branches, and each branch reaches a different organ. But how many bladder meridians are there in the human body?

The Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian is one of the twelve meridians in the human body. Abbreviated as bladder meridian.

The meridian starts from the inner canthus of the eye (Jingming point), goes up to the forehead, and intersects on the top of the head (Baihui point). This meridian branch emerges from the top of the head to the upper corner of the ear. The straight channel runs from the top of the head to the occipital bone, enters the cranial cavity, connects with the brain, and then goes down to the neck (Tianzhu point), where it intersects at the Dazhui point, then divides into left and right sides along the inner side of the shoulder blade and both sides of the spine (one inch and five fen), reaches the waist (Shenshu point), enters the muscles on both sides of the spine, goes deep into the body cavity, connects with the kidneys, and belongs to the bladder.

A branch of this meridian branches out from the waist, descends along both sides of the spine, passes through the buttocks, and descends from the outer edge of the back of the thigh to the popliteal fossa (Weizhong point). Another branch runs from the nape of the neck, passes through the inner side of the shoulder, and goes down from the Fufen point on the spine (3 inches) to the hip joint, passes through the posterior side of the thigh to the popliteal fossa to meet the previous branch, then goes down through the gastrocnemius muscle, exits behind the lateral malleolus, along the lateral edge of the dorsum of the foot to the lateral end of the little toe (Zhiyin point), and connects with the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian.

Bladder Meridian Scraping

1. Avoid wind and keep warm when performing scraping treatment. Avoid wind and keep warm when performing scraping treatment. When the room temperature is low, you should try to reduce the exposure of the body parts. When the temperature is high in summer, you should not do scraping near an electric fan or in places with convection wind. Because the sweat pores of the skin are opened during scraping, if the wind and cold evil are encountered, the evil qi can directly enter the body through the opened pores, which will not only affect the therapeutic effect of scraping, but also cause new diseases due to the exposure to wind and cold.

2. Treat only one disease each time. The scraping time should not be too long each time. Strictly adhere to the principle of treating only one disease each time. Do not perform sha treatment continuously on a large area in order to protect the vital energy. The scraping areas provided for each disease in the textbook, when the meridian acupoints are used in combination with the holographic acupoints, there are multiple holographic acupoint treatment areas, and you can choose 1-2 to scrape each time.

3. Drink a cup of hot water after scraping treatment. Scraping treatment can open sweat pores and expel evil spirits, which will consume some body fluids. Drinking a cup of hot water after scraping can not only replenish the consumed water, but also promote metabolism and accelerate the excretion of metabolic products.

4. The time for bathing after scraping treatment: After scraping treatment, in order to avoid the invasion of wind and cold, you must wait until the skin pores close and return to their original state before bathing, which is usually about 3 hours. However, during bathing, scraping can be done before the water stains have dried. Because the pores are slightly open during bathing, scraping takes less time and has a significant effect, but you should pay attention to keeping warm.