ELEMENTS-OF-COMBAT MARTIAL ARTS

WATER ELEMENTS

Kidney Meridian - KI - (Foot Shaoyin)

The kidney meridian has 27 points and it starts at the bottom of the small toe crossing the middle of the sole and arch of the foot, it crosses just in front of the ankle and circles and runs up the inside of the leg and thigh and it enters the body near the base of the backbone after connecting with the kidney, It comes out at the pubic bone and comes over the abdominals runs up the chest and finishes in the upper chest just below the collar bone. a second branch comes from the kidney and moves internally upwards and passes through the liver, diaphragm, lungs and throat and finishes at the root of the tongue, another small branch divides from the lung to connect with the heart and pericardium. The kidney meridians polarity is Yin and the direction of energy starts in the middle of the sole and it finishes in the upper chest just below the collar bone.

Urinary Bladder - BL - (Foot Taiyang)

The urinary bladder meridian has 67 points and it starts on the inside edge of the eye and runs up the forehead to the top of the forehead where it branches into the brain, the main branch then comes down the back of the head and divides into two branches, one branch comes down the neck and runs parallel along the spine to the base of the spine where it branches out to the bladder, the other branch crosses the back of the shoulder and runs down on the back and comes down to the buttocks' where two branches run across the back of the thigh along different pathways that join at the back of the knee the joint branches then continues down the leg and circles behind the ankle to the outside edge of the foot and finishes on the outside edge of the small toe by the corner of the nail where it connects with the kidney meridian. The urinary bladder meridians polarity is Yang and the direction of energy starts on the inside edge of the eye and finishes on the outside edge of the small toe by the corner of the nail.