[Category]
crossing point: foot taiyang, meeting of Shaoyang.
[Origin]
"Aperture" refers to the five sense organs and seven orifices, and the acupuncture point is behind it, so it is called "Yin". In order to distinguish it from the point of the same name (Zuqiaoyin (GB44)) in Benjing on the foot, Zhenjiu Zishengjing is named "head". Shengji Zonglu is called "the first orifice Yin".
[Location]
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Touqiaoyin (GB11) acupoint
(quoted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
The depression above and behind the base of the mastoid process behind the ear of the head, when the arc connected by
Tianchong (GB9) and
Wangu (GB12) The lower 1/3 vertex of the connecting line.
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "On Wangu (GB12), under the occipital bone, shake it."
- Zhenjiu Jicheng: "One inch below Fubai (GB10), slightly above the last eight minutes of Chimai, and below hairline ”.
[Anatomy]
- Nerve: Converging branches of the greater occipital nerve and the lesser occipital nerve.
- Vessels: Postauricular artery and vein branches.
[Manipulation]
transverse insertion 0.5~1 inch. No moxibustion.
[Efficacy]
dispelling wind, clearing away heat and relaxing muscles.
- Classical: headache and neck, muscle cramp of limbs, head and jaw pain, irritability in hands and feet, eye pain, hypochondriac pain, cough, Yongju, tinnitus, pharyngitis, strong tongue.
- Modern: Goiter, otitis media.
[Recipe]
- The headache is like a cone and cannot be moved: Touqiaoyin (GB11), Qiangjian (GV18).
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