bubble_chart Category Intersecting point: foot taiyang and shaoyang.
bubble_chart Etymology
"Tou" (頭), head; "qiao" (竅), orifice of head. The point is located behind these orifices, hence called "yin" (陰). To distinguish it from the point of same name on foot (Zuqiaoyin (GB44); "Zu", foot), Zhenjiu Zisheng Jing added "Tou" (頭, head) to the name. Shengji Zonglu refers to it as "Shouqiaoyin" (首竅陰; 首, head).
bubble_chart Location
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Touqiaoyin (GB11) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
On head, in the depression posterior and superior to the base of mastoid process, at lower one-third point of the curved line connecting
Tianchong (GB9) and
Wangu (GB12).
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "Above Wangu (GB12), below occipital bone, where movement can be felt when touched";
- Zhenjiu Jicheng: "1 cun below Fubai (GB10), slightly above and 0.8 cun posterior to Chimai (SJ18)".
bubble_chart Anatomy
- Nerve: converging branches of greater occipital nerve and lesser occipital nerve.
- Vessels: branch of posterior auricular artery and vein.
bubble_chart Manipulation
Horizontal insertion 0.5 to 1 cun. Moxibustion is not applied.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Dispel wind, clear heat, soothe sinew.
- Classical: Headache radiating to neck, cramping of limbs, pain in head, neck, and jaw, Heat and irritability in limbs, eye pain, hypochondriac pain, coughing, carbuncle and gangrene, tinnitus, pharyngitis, stiff tongue.
- Modern: thyroid enlargement, otitis media.
bubble_chart Combinations
- Headache as if pierced by an awl, with inability to move: Touqiaoyin (GB11), Qiangjian (GV18).
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