[Category]
Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing is attributed to the Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian. Zhenjiu Juying is the master of foot shaoyang.
[Origin]
Silk bamboo, thin bamboo, describes eyebrows, and "empty" refers to holes. The point is next to the eyebrow, hence the name.
[Location]
Sizhukong acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
The depression behind the eyebrow tip on the face.
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "Among those with sunken eyebrows";
- Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "Removing two points of eyebrows".
[Anatomy]
- Muscle: Orbicularis oculi.
- Nerves: Auriculotemporal nerve branch, zygomatic branch of facial nerve.
- Vessels: superficial temporal artery, frontal branch of vein.
[Manipulation]
Subcutaneous insertion backward 0.5~1 inch. Moxibustion is prohibited.
[Efficacy]
dispersing wind, improving vision.
- Classical: Head wind, vertigo, madness, irritability, epilepsy, red eyes, blurred vision, toothache, facial twitching, facial itching and numbness, neonatal tetanus in children.
- Modern: deviation of mouth, eyelid.
[Recipe]
- headache: Sizhukong (TE23), Fengchi (GB20).
- Eye diseases: Sizhukong (TE23), Shangxing (GV23), Baihui (GV20), Zanzhu (BL2).
- wind epilepsy Epilepsy: Sizhukong (TE23), Tonggu.
- Deviation of mouth and eyes: Sizhukong (TE23), Zanzhu (BL2), Sibai (ST2), Dicang (ST4) .
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