bubble_chart Category Intersecting point: hand and foot shaoyang and yangming.
bubble_chart Etymology
"Xuan" (懸), hanging high; "Li" (釐), to bestow or grant. The point is located below Xuanlu (GB5), hence the name. (Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing).
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Xuanli (GB6) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
On the lower part of temple hairline, at lower one-fourth point of the curved line along hairline between
Touwei (ST8) and
Qubin (GB7). It is located 0.5 cun behind hairline or at the midpoint of the line connecting the corner of forehead and the tip of ear.
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "At the lower border of temporal region, below temple";
- Yixue Rumen: "Slanting upward from forehead to the lower corner of head".
bubble_chart Anatomy
- Muscle: temporalis.
- Nerve: temporal branch of auriculotemporal nerve. In newborns, the deep layer corresponds to anterior fontanelle.
- Vessel: frontal branch of temporal line artery and vein.
bubble_chart Manipulation
Horizontal insertion 0.5 to 1.5 cun. Needling is contraindicated in infants with an unclosed or recently closed anterior fontanelle to avoid intracranial injury. Moxibustion is not applied.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Dispel wind and calm convulsions
- Classical: migraine, febrile diseases, irritability, absence of sweating, facial redness and pain, tinnitus, frequent sneezing, depressive psychosis.
- Modern: trigeminal neuralgia, neurasthenia, hemiplegia due to stroke, tremor.
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