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Extra Points-1 Head and Neck. By: Dr. Chuanxin Wang, DAOM, L. Ac. Si-Shen-Cong (EX-HN-1).
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Extra Points-1Head and Neck By: Dr. Chuanxin Wang, DAOM, L. Ac
Si-Shen-Cong (EX-HN-1) • Location: Four points on the vertex of the head, 1 cun anterior, posterior and lateral to Baihui (DU20).Indications: Headache, dizziness, insomnia, amnesia, epilepsy.Method: Puncture subcutaneously 0.5-1.0 Cun. Moxibustion is applicable.
Dang Yang (EX-HN-2) • Location : At the frontal part of the head, directly above the pupil, 1 cun above the anterior hairline. • Indications: Dizziness, ophthalmalgia, stuffy nose, common cough, headache, conjunctivitis, apoplectic stroke.
Yin-Tang (EX-HN-3) • Location: On the forehead, at the midpoint between the eyebrows.Indications: Headache, heaviness sensation of the head, epistaxis, rhinorrhea with discharge, infantile convulsion, pain in the forehead, insomnia.Method: Puncture subcutaneously 0.3-0.5 Cun. Moxbibustion is applicable.
Yu-Yao (EX-HN-4) • Location: On the forehead, at the midpoint between the eyebrows.Indications: Pain in the supraorbitai bone, twitching of eyelid(s), blepharoptosis, nebula, conjunctival congestion and swelling of the eye(s).Method: Puncture subcutaneously 0.3-0.5 cun.
Tai-Yang (EX-HN-5) • Location: At the temporal part of the head, between the lateral end of the eyebrow and the outer canthus, in the depression one finger breadth behind them.Indications: Headache, ophthalmic disorders, hemiparalysis of face.Method: Puncture perpendicularly 0.3-0.5 cun, or prick to cause bleeding.
Er-Jian (EX-HN-6) • Location: Above the apex of the ear auricle, at the tip of the auricle when the ear is folded forward.Indications: Conjunctival congestion and swelling of the eye(s), fever, nebula.Method: Puncture perpendicularly 0.1-0.2 cun or prick to cause bleeding. Moxibustion is applicable.
Qiu-Hou (EX-HN-7) • Location: On the face, at the junction of the lateral fourth and medial three fourth of the infra-orbital margin.Indications: Ophthalmic disorders.Method: Push the eyeball upward gently ,then puncture perpendicaularly 0.5-1.2 cun along the orbital margin slowly without movements of lifting, thrusting, twisting and rotating.
Shang-Ying-Xiang (BI-Tong)(EX-HN-8) • Location: On the face, at the junction of the alar cartilage of the nose and the nasal concha, near the upper end of the nasolabial groove. • Indications: rhinorrhea with turbid discharge, stuffy nose, boil of nose.
Nei-Ying-Xiang (EX-HN-9) • Location: In the nostril, at the junction between the mucosa of the alar cartilage of the nose and the nasal con cha.Indications:Conjunctival congestion and swelling of the eye(s), rhinopathy, inflammation of the throat, fever, heatstroke, dizziness.Prick to cause bleeding. Prohibited on cases with hemorrhagic diatbesis.
Ju-Quan (EX-HN-10) • Location: In the mouth, at the midpoint of the dorsal midline of the tongue. • Indications: Stiff tongue, flaccid tongue, with aphasia, diabetes, asthma, cough, hypogeusestbesia.
Hai-Quan (EX-HN-11) • Location: In the mouth, at the midpoint of the frenulum of the tongue. • Indications: Diabetes, double tongue with swelling pain, laryngemphraxis, vomiting, diarrhea.
Jin-Jin (EX-HN-12) • Location: In the mouth, on the vein in the left side of the frenulum of the tongue. • Indications: Swelling of tongue, intractable vomiting, stiff tongue.
Yu-Ye (EX-HN-13) • Location: In the mouth, on the vein in the right side of the frenulum of the tongue. • Indications: Swelling of tongue, intractable vomiting, stiff tongue.
Yi-Ming (EX-HN-14) • Location: On the nape, 1 cun posterior to Yi-Feng (SJ17). • Indications: Ophthalmic disorders, tinnitus, insonmia.
Bai-Lao (EX-HN-15) • Location: On the nape. 2 cun directly above Dazhui (DU14) and 1 cun lateral to the posterior midline. • Indications: Scrofula. cough, asthma, pertussis, stiff neck.