This passage is interpreted to mean that the spleen meridian rises up the leg to SP-12 on the abdomen, thence to SP-13, to CV-3, to CV-4, to SP-14, to SP-15, to CV-10, to SP-16, to GB-24 to LV-14, to CV-12. There is also some suggestion of a downward connection to CV-10 from here, which would create a cyclic pattern. Generally, however, the internal trajectory starts from CV-12, passes inside to and permeates the spleen, then comes to and spirally wraps the stomach. There it comes up through or along the esophagus to the base of the tongue. From this trajectory a branch passes to the heart.