Acupuncture Points on the Gall Bladder Channel of Foot Shao Yang
- Meeting Point of the Gallbladder and Bladder Channels
Clears the head and benefits the neck regionActivates the channel and alleviates pain
Headache, tinnitus, deafness.
Where is GB-10 located?
- A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 428): Posterior to the ear, along a curved line drawn from Tianchong GB-9 to Wangu GB-12 running within the hairline and more or less parallel to the line of the rim of the ear, in a depression about one third of the distance between Tianchong GB-9 and Wangu GB-12.
- Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 211): Posterior and superior to the mastoid process, at the junction of the middle third and upper third of the curve line connecting Tianchong (GB-9) and Wangu (GB-12).
Puncture subcutaneously 0.3-0.5 inch. Moxibustion is applicable.
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