Spleen Channel points: your Spleen meridian

This Spleen channel points list links to individual Spleen points for deeper study. The Spleen: Your Great Housekeeper!

Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott

March 26, 2021

Spleen channel points lie along the Spleen acupuncture meridian or ‘Spleen channel’.

There are twenty-one (21) such acupuncture points on this channel and they include at least three very important ones which treat issues to do with yin and yang, Qi, Blood, Damp and Phlegm.

To find out what your Spleen does in Chinese medicine, click on Spleen. (For what it does in Western medicine, click here.)

Individual Spleen Channel Points

Click on each Spleen point for a page about it. Only points in red have connected pages. The others will turn red as we write pages for them.

Spleen 1	Yinbai	Hidden White
Spleen 2	Dadu	Great Capital
Spleen 3	Taibai	Supreme White
Spleen 4	Gongsun	Grandfather-Grandson
Spleen 5	Shangqiu	Shang mound
Spleen 6	Sanyinjiao	Three yin intersection
Spleen 7	Lougu	Leaky Valley
Spleen 8	Diji	Earth Motivator
Spleen 9	Yinlingquan	Yin Mound Spring
Spleen 10	Xuehai	Sea of Blood
Spleen 11	Jimen	Winnowing Gate
Spleen 12	Chongmen	Rushing Gate
Spleen 13	Fushe	Fu Abode
Spleen 14	Fujie	Abdomen Knot
Spleen 15	Daheng	Great Horizontal
Spleen 16	Fuai	Abdomen Sorrow
Spleen 17	Shidou	Food Drain
Spleen 18	Tianxi	Heavenly Stream
Spleen 19	Xiongxiang	Chest Region
Spleen 20	Zhourong	Encircling Glory
Spleen 21	Dabao	Great Enveloping

Being the Transformer and Transporter your Spleen keeps everything going along under the surface.

swan swimming on lake, its legs like the action of the Spleen channel — Swan – busy under the surface! Photo by Mat Reding

That’s rather like a swan’s legs, paddling vigorously – out of sight – as it glides by.

Some of Spleen points clear Damp and Phlegm, others strengthen Blood and steady the Shen, your spirit.

Your Spleen works very closely with your Stomach and with your Heart, so it helps your Stomach digest and absorb food, and it helps your Heart maintain it’s ‘cool’.

It starts on the medial side of your big toe and ends at a point on the side of your chest inferior to your axilla. In between it connects with many important points on other channels.

Control points on the Spleen Meridian (Spleen Channel)

Some acupuncture points on meridians between knee and toe-tips are particularly important. Since antiquity, acupuncturists have respected them for the special actions they perform. These actions are not just local to the points themselves but affect the metabolism of the body.

These special points are the Five Transport or Shu points.

In another context they become the Five Element points. Read our page on 5 Element theory to understand more about this.

In addition, on the Spleen channel, its Luo-Connecting point, Gongsun, (Spleen 4) has influence over your inherited constitution. For many women it can often help with gynaecological issues.

But Spleen points can be important for everyone.