LR-11 - Yin Corner

阴廉 - Yīn lián

Point Region: Thigh

LR

Liver Meridian

足厥阴肝经 - Zú Juéyīn Gān Jīng

Location & How to Find

Anatomical Location: On the inner side of the thigh, 2 cun below ST-30, just outside the adductor longus muscle. ST-30 is in the groin, level with the top of the pubic bone, 2 cun out from the midline.

Distances are in cun, a unit that scales with each person's body. As a guide, the width of your thumb at its joint is 1 cun, and your four fingers held together, measured across the middle joints, are 3 cun.

How to Locate:

  1. Find ST-30, two thumb-widths out from the midline at the level of the top of the pubic bone
  2. Measure two thumb-widths straight down
  3. The point is just outside the inner-thigh muscle that tightens when you squeeze your knees together
LR-11 (Yin Corner) acupressure point location: On the inner side of the thigh, 2 cun below ST-30, just outside the adductor longus muscle.

How to Apply Pressure

After finding LR-11, relax your leg and use gentle surface contact only; do not press deeply near the groin. Skip it after recent pelvic surgery or with severe pelvic inflammatory disease, which requires medical treatment.

Traditional Indications

In TCM, this point is traditionally used for:

  • Genital pain
  • Pelvic tension
  • Urinary problems
  • Reproductive issues
  • Pelvic inflammation
  • Groin pain

Select a point to see its location, how to find it, and its traditional uses.

Important Precautions

Avoid this point with:

  • Severe pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Recent pelvic surgery