Intersecting point: Lingshu-Hanrebing Ma Shi note: "Daying (ST5) emerges from foot yangming, and hand yangming meridian enters the gum and intersects with it."

bubble_chart Etymology

"Ying" (迎) refers to the pulsation of the artery. The acupoint is located where the facial artery pulsates, and foot yangming stomach meridian (ST) descends anteriorly from here to Renying (ST9), hence the name.

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Daying (ST5) acupoint
(quoted "Meridians and Acupoints")

• Zhenjiu Jiayi Jing: "One cun and three fen in front of the curved jaw, in the depression of the bone where artery pulsates";
• Qianjin Yaofang wrote "One cun and two fen";
• Tongren Shuxue Zhenjiu Tujing: "Also, when the mouth is closed, it aligns with the two shoulders";
• Xunjing Kaoxue Bian: "Situated between cheekbone and jawbone, one and a half cun below the ear."

bubble_chart Anatomy

• Muscle: The anterior edge of the masseter muscle stop.
• Nerve: buccal nerve, marginal mandibular branch of facial nerve.
• Vessels: There is the facial artery in front.

bubble_chart Manipulation

Avoid facial artery and insert obliquely 0.3 to 0.5 cun. Do not apply moxibustion.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Dispel wind, benefit mouth and teeth

• Classical: swollen cheek, toothache, swollen face, fever, locked jaw, crooked mouth, stiff tongue and inability to speak, scrofula, epilepsy, cold-induced convulsions, full stomach, wheezing and labored breathing, inability to eat, difficulty chewing, short of breath, wind-induced abscess with facial swelling, inability to close eyes, continuous twitching of lips, dislocation disease of jaw, mumps.
• Modern: Facial nerve palsy, mumps.

bubble_chart Combinations

• Toothache and aversion to cold: Daying (ST5), Quanliao (SI18), Tinghui (GB2), Quchi (LI11).
• Neck scrofula: Daying (ST5), (hand) Wuli, Binao (LI14).
• Mumps: Daying (ST5), Quchi (LI11), Hegu (LI4).