| international code | EX-HN30 |
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bubble_chart Category Extra point.
bubble_chart Etymology
Yang, the yang of yin-yang; Wei, to maintain. This acupoint is located on the back of the ear, a region associated with yang; it is also on the connecting band between the head and the auricle, hence the name.
bubble_chart Location
Located on the inner side of the auricle at the root of the temporal region, level with the anterior notch of the tragus. When the auricle is pulled forward, the point is where the taut tendon appears at the root of the auricle.
bubble_chart Anatomy
In the posterior auricular muscle; there are the posterior auricular artery and vein; distributed with the great auricular nerve, lesser occipital nerve, and auricular branch of the facial nerve.
bubble_chart Manipulation
Needle 2 fen, local distending pain. Moxibustion applicable.
bubble_chart Efficacy
Pediatric fright epilepsy, deafness, tinnitus, otitis media.
bubble_chart Combinations
