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

Toulinqi (GB15) acupoint
(adapted from "Meridians and Acupoints")

• 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).