GB-07 (Qu Bin) Temporal Hairline Curve

What does GB-07 Qu Bin do?

GB-07 eliminates wind and benefits the mouth and jaw — a single recorded action, and the only one on this channel’s temporal run that names the jaw.

• Eliminates wind and benefits the mouth and jaw — the whole of the recorded action

It goes a different way from the points above it. Comparing our records, GB-04, GB-05 and GB-06 all record expelling wind and clearing heat, and all three carry migraine and outer-canthus pain. GB-07 records wind but not heat, and its indications are the jaw and cheek rather than the eye. Two of these four points share an action record word for word (GB-05 and GB-06); GB-07’s is its own.

It is a Meeting Point of the Gallbladder and Bladder channels — the pairing that runs through the whole region behind and above the ear, shared by GB-08, GB-09, GB-10 and GB-12.

On the name. “Qu Bin” means Temporal Hairline Curve. Qu is bent or curved — the same character as in LI-11 Qu Chi and BL-04 Qu Cha — and bin is the hair at the temples. The name describes the curve of the hairline in front of the ear, which is exactly the feature the point sits against. Purely positional, and unusually literal.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (channel, category, action, location and translation records; the GB-04, GB-05, GB-06, GB-08 to GB-12, BL-04 and LI-11 records queried and their actions compared against our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources.

What is GB-07 Qu Bin used for?

GB-07 is used for headache, swelling of the cheek, lockjaw, pain in the temple, and infantile convulsions. Our own indication record is reproduced here in full.

• Headache
• Swelling of the cheek
• Trismus (lockjaw)
• Pain in the temporal region
• Infantile convulsion

An honest note, and two entries need it stated plainly.

• A CONVULSION IN A CHILD IS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY requiring immediate medical care. A first seizure, one lasting more than a few minutes, one in an infant, or a child who does not recover quickly needs emergency assessment — causes include infection and metabolic disturbance, several urgent and treatable. This record documents a classical indication and makes no claim that acupuncture treats seizures in children.
• TRISMUS — “LOCKJAW” — IS AN AMBIGUOUS WORD IN A WAY THAT MATTERS. Difficulty opening the jaw is usually a problem of the jaw joint, its muscles, or a dental infection, and warrants dental or medical assessment. But “lockjaw” is also the common name for TETANUS — a life-threatening infection, preventable by vaccination, requiring emergency hospital treatment. Jaw stiffness with muscle spasms, difficulty swallowing, or following a wound is a medical emergency. Our SJ-22 record carries the same warning for the same word.

Cheek swelling with fever, or spreading redness, needs prompt care — a dental infection can spread dangerously. Sudden severe headache, or headache with fever and neck stiffness, requires urgent assessment. And a caution the region demands though our record does not mention it: temporal pain with scalp tenderness in an adult over about fifty, especially with jaw ache on chewing or any visual change, can indicate giant cell arteritis, which threatens sight and is an emergency.

Why jaw and cheek, at this point. GB-07 sits at the front edge of the temple, directly above the temporomandibular joint and over the muscles of chewing. Its jaw indications follow from position rather than from any channel argument — the same reasoning our SJ-21 record gives for its own toothache entry.

How it is combined. With GB-06 and GB-05 above on the quartered line it anchors. With SJ-20 Jiao Sun, from which our record measures it, and SJ-21 Er Men in front of the ear. With ST-06 Jia Che and ST-07 Xia Guan at the jaw, and LI-04 He Gu distally. All held here.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (indication record; the GB-05, GB-06, LI-04, SJ-20, SJ-21, SJ-22, ST-06 and ST-07 records queried from our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources.

Where is GB-07 Qu Bin located, and why does it matter so much?

GB-07 is in the temple within the hairline, level with and one finger-breadth in front of SJ-20 Jiao Sun. It is the hinge of the whole construction on this side of the head.

• In the temporal region, within the hairline
• Level with, and one finger-breadth anterior to, SJ-20 Jiao Sun
• GB-04, GB-05 and GB-06 sit at one quarter, one half and three quarters of the line from ST-08 Tou Wei down to this point

GB-07 is located from one point and anchors three others, which makes it consequential out of proportion to its own record. The chain, verified end to end in our own location records:

• SJ-20 Jiao Sun is found by folding the ear forward — a landmark the reader creates, immune to hairline, hair or head size
• GB-07 is one finger-breadth in front of it, level
• GB-04, GB-05 and GB-06 quarter the span from ST-08 to GB-07

So a single ear-fold fixes four points on this side — and, through the curve behind the ear, SJ-18 and SJ-19 as well. One landmark, six points. The corollary is that an error at SJ-20 or here propagates to all of them, which is the practical reason to locate this point carefully rather than approximately.

Our record uses a FINGER-BREADTH, not a cun, and that is worth noticing. Almost every measurement in this library is in cun — itself a proportional unit — or is a fraction of a span. A finger-breadth is a different kind of body-relative measure, and it appears here because the distance is small enough that a cun would be imprecise. It is retained as our record states it rather than converted.

A caution about hair. This point lies within the hairline where surface landmarks are hidden. The ear remains visible and measurable regardless, which is precisely why the construction is built on it.

On the name. “Qu Bin” — Temporal Hairline Curve. The name describes the feature the point sits against.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (location and translation records, retained unchanged including the finger-breadth measure; the GB-04, GB-05, GB-06, ST-08, SJ-18, SJ-19 and SJ-20 records queried and the full chain verified against our own data).

• A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 426): In the temporal region, within the hairline, level with and one finger-breadth anterior to Jiaosun SJ-20.
• Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 210): On the head, at a crossing point of the vertical posterior border of the temple and horizontal line through the ear apex.

How is GB-07 Qu Bin needled?

Our own record states SUBCUTANEOUS insertion — the needle laid along under the skin — to roughly 0.3–0.5 inch, with moxibustion applicable. What follows is a neutral record of what the reference literature documents. It is not instruction, and this page does not teach technique.

• Angle and depth as recorded: subcutaneous (transverse), 0.3–0.5 inch — the same insertion our records give at GB-04, GB-05 and GB-06. All four points of this temporal run are recorded identically.
• Moxibustion: recorded as applicable.
• Regional anatomy: the temporalis muscle and its fascia lie beneath thin scalp; the superficial temporal artery and vein and the auriculotemporal nerve ascend just behind and below; the temporomandibular joint lies below and in front; the temporal bone lies beneath, and it is the thinnest part of the skull.

Why subcutaneous, and why that is the safety story. There is muscle and then bone beneath the scalp, so a transverse needle is what the anatomy permits rather than a stylistic choice. This is a low-hazard point in that specific sense: no cavity within reach, no organ, no major vessel at the point itself. The scalp bleeds readily — a nuisance rather than a danger.

The arterial caution in this region belongs to a different point. Our SJ-22 He Liao record, close by at the front edge of the temple, opens with “avoid puncturing the artery” and gives only 0.1–0.3 inch, because the superficial temporal artery is the structure its own location uses. GB-07’s record carries none — nine points in this library do, counted by query — and this page does not import one. The vessel’s presence in the region is stated because it is true.

What is not claimed. No study measuring a safe depth at GB-07 could be located, and none is borrowed. Neither measured-depth study this library uses reaches the head. No case report naming GB-07 was located.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (needling record, retained unchanged, and the GB-04, GB-05 and GB-06 recorded insertions compared; every needling record queried and the nine arterial cautions counted, with SJ-22's attributed to that point), cross-referenced against multiple online sources; regional anatomy from standard anatomical description.

Is there research on GB-07, and what should a reader know?

No trial isolates GB-07. Where the point appears it is one component of a headache or jaw protocol, and a study that includes a point in a protocol is not evidence about that point. A caution specific to the region also applies: “scalp acupuncture” is a distinct modern system with its own zones and trials, and it is not the same thing as the classical channel points on the head.

What this page can state with confidence, and the first item is structural. GB-07 is the hinge of the head’s largest measuring construction. It is located from SJ-20 — found by folding the ear forward — and it is itself the lower anchor of the line that GB-04, GB-05 and GB-06 divide into quarters. One ear-fold ultimately fixes six points across two channels, and an error here moves four of them.

Its record also uses a FINGER-BREADTH rather than a cun, a different kind of body-relative unit, retained as stated rather than converted. Its single recorded action is the only one on this run naming the jaw, which its position above the temporomandibular joint accounts for.

Two warnings are the operative content. A convulsion in a child is a medical emergency. And “lockjaw” is ambiguous: it is also the common name for tetanus — jaw stiffness with spasms, difficulty swallowing, or following a wound needs emergency care.

A note on searching for it. “GB 7”, “G 7” and “Qubin” searches return protocol trials and unrelated material matched on transliteration. Any claim attached to this point should be checked against what a study actually used.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (action, indication, location and needling records; the SJ-20 to GB-07 to GB-04/05/06 chain verified end to end, and the SJ-22 arterial caution attributed to that point, against our own data).