bubble_chart Category Intersecting point: foot taiyang, shaoyang, and yang link vessel .
bubble_chart Etymology
"Tou" (頭), head; "lin" (臨), facing or overlooking from high; "qi" (泣), tearing or weeping. The acupoint is located above eye, in a commanding position, hence the name. To distinguish it from the acupoint of the same name on foot (Zulinqi (GB41)), Zhenjiu Zisheng Jing adds "Tou" (頭, head) to its name. Shengji Zonglu refers to it as "Mulinqi" (目臨泣; "Mu" (目), eye).
bubble_chart Location
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Toulinqi (GB15) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")
On the top of head, directly above pupil, 0.5 cun posterior to anterior hairline. It is at the midpoint of the line connecting
Shenting (GV24) and
Touwei (ST8).
- Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "0.5 cun within hairline, directly above inner canthus, in a depression";
- Suwen-Qifu Lun Wang Bing's noted: "Directly above eye";
- Zhenjiu Jicheng: "Slightly less than 1 cun from Qucha (BL4)".
bubble_chart Anatomy
Muscles, frontalis. - Nerve: combined branches of medial and lateral branches of frontal nerve.
- Vessels: frontal artery and vein.
bubble_chart Manipulation
Insert subcutaneously upward 0.5~1 cun. Moxibustion is not applied.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Improve vision, dispel wind, clear spirit.
- Classical: dizziness, white nebula in eye, excessive tears, fright epilepsy in children, headache due to stroke, pain in eyebrows and eyes, nasal congestion.
- Modern: myopia, supraorbital neuralgia.
bubble_chart Combinations
- Nasal congestion: Toulinqi (GB15), Tongtian (BL7).
- Excessive tearing: Toulinqi (GB15), Touwei (ST8).
- White nebula in eye: Toulinqi (GB15), Ganshu (BL18).
- Loss of consciousness due to stroke: Toulinqi (GB15), Baihui (GV20), Renzhong, Neiguan (PC6), Shixuan (EX-UE11).
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