[Category]
The meeting of foot shaoyang and hand taiyang.
[Origin]
Harmony, harmony; Liao, bone empty. If the ears are harmonious, you can hear sounds, and the void is in the depression in front of the ear and behind the bone, hence the name. The original name is "Heliao", and its Chinese pinyin is the same as "Heliao". To avoid confusion, it was named "Er".
[Location]
Erheliao (TE22) acupoints
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
The posterior edge of the temporal temple hair is directly superior to the level with the upper end of the auricle root, which is the posterior edge of the superficial temporal artery.
[Anatomy]
- Muscles: temporalis, preauricularis.
- Nerve: Auriculotemporal nerve branch, facial nerve temporal branch.
- Vessels: superficial temporal artery and vein.
[Manipulation]
Avoid the superficial temporal artery and make a superficial puncture 0.3 to 0.5 cun posteriorly. Moxa stick warm moxibustion for 5 to 15 minutes.
[Efficacy]
Relieving stuffy orifices.
- Classical: Headache, tinnitus, trismus, crooked mouth, sinusitis.
- Modern: dizziness, deviation of mouth, hemifacial spasm, trigeminal neuralgia, subtemporal mandibular arthritis.
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