Jin Jin Yu Ye Golden Liquid, Jade Fluid

What do Jin Jin and Yu Ye do?

Jin Jin and Yu Ye clear heat and generate fluids, reduce swelling of the tongue, benefit the tongue and mouth for speech, and stop vomiting — a pair of extra points on the veins beneath the tongue.

• Clear heat and generate fluids — for heat and dryness of the mouth and tongue
• Reduce swelling of the tongue — including sudden severe swelling (classically “lotus-flower tongue”)
• Benefit the tongue and mouth — supporting speech, including after stroke
• Stop vomiting and calm the stomach

A paired bloodletting point under the tongue. Jin Jin (“Golden Liquid”) lies on the left sublingual vein and Yu Ye (“Jade Fluid”) on the right — the two points named as a pair (coded EX-HN-12 and EX-HN-13). Their classic method is pricking to bleed the visible veins under the tongue, drawing dark venous blood to clear heat and reduce swelling. The “fluid” names reflect the sublingual saliva glands and the fluid-generating action.

The “lotus-flower tongue” — and why it matters. Classical texts describe a sudden, severe swelling of the tongue (likened to an inflated bladder) that can obstruct breathing and kill quickly — and Jin Jin / Yu Ye bleeding is the classical response. In modern terms this is angioedema of the tongue, a true airway emergency: see the urgent safety note below.

On the names. “Jin Jin” = Golden Liquid, “Yu Ye” = Jade Fluid — the precious fluids (saliva) beneath the tongue.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (extra-point action, location and translation records queried against our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources.

What are Jin Jin and Yu Ye used for?

Jin Jin and Yu Ye are used for sudden tongue swelling, tongue pain and swelling, mouth ulcers, throat obstruction, loss of voice after stroke, wasting-thirst with a parched mouth, and severe vomiting. Our own indication record is reproduced here in full.

• “Lotus-flower tongue” — sudden severe tongue swelling that can obstruct breathing
• Pain and swelling of the tongue; mouth ulcers
• Painful throat obstruction; loss of voice following wind-stroke
• Wasting-and-thirsting disorder (parched mouth)
• Severe unremitting vomiting; nausea and vomiting of pregnancy; diarrhoea

Tongue, mouth and fluids. The tongue and mouth entries are the local, swelling-reducing and speech action; wasting-thirst is the generate-fluids action; and the vomiting entries are the stomach-calming action.

An honest and URGENT note. SUDDEN SWELLING OF THE TONGUE THAT AFFECTS BREATHING OR SWALLOWING IS A LIFE-THREATENING AIRWAY EMERGENCY — call emergency services immediately; it can be anaphylaxis or angioedema and needs adrenaline and airway management, NOT acupuncture. Loss of voice or swallowing difficulty after a stroke is part of a medical emergency. “Wasting and thirsting” overlaps with diabetes, which requires diagnosis. Severe or persistent vomiting causes dehydration and needs assessment. This record documents classical use only.

How it is combined. With REN-23 Lian Quan for tongue stiffness and post-stroke speech loss, and with HT-05 Tong Li for the voice. All held here.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (extra-point indication and action records; the HT-05 and REN-23 records queried from our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources; the airway-emergency framing from standard clinical guidance.

Where are Jin Jin and Yu Ye located?

Jin Jin and Yu Ye are under the tongue, on the two veins either side of the tongue’s central fold — Jin Jin on the left, Yu Ye on the right.

• On the underside of the tongue, on the sublingual veins
• Either side of the frenulum (the central fold anchoring the tongue): Jin Jin to the left, Yu Ye to the right

The visible side-veins are the target — not the centre. Lifting or curling the tongue back reveals two dark bluish veins running under it, one to each side of the central fold. Jin Jin and Yu Ye sit on those lateral veins. The central vessel is deliberately avoided (see needling), which is why the point is defined on the side veins.

On the names. “Jin Jin” and “Yu Ye” — Golden Liquid and Jade Fluid, the sublingual fluids, as noted above.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (extra-point location and translation records, retained unchanged, against our own data).

Where is Jin Jin Yu Ye located?

• A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 570): These paired points are located on the veins either side of the frenulum of the tongue, Jin Jin to the left and Yu Ye to the right.

How are Jin Jin and Yu Ye needled?

Our own record states: prick to bleed — only the visible lateral sublingual veins — releasing a small amount of dark venous blood, then pressure with a sterile swab; moxibustion is not used. What follows is a neutral record of what the reference literature documents. It is not instruction, and this page does not teach technique.

• Bleeding technique: the tongue is curled back or held with gauze to expose the two lateral sublingual veins, which are pricked with a fine lancet or three-edged needle for a few drops of dark blood; pressure follows.
• A critical restriction: only the visible lateral veins are punctured. Classical sources warn against puncturing the central sublingual vessel — it risks severe, uncontrollable bleeding.
• Moxibustion: not used at this point.
• Regional anatomy: the floor of the mouth holds the sublingual veins and the deep lingual (tongue) artery centrally, the sublingual glands, and the submandibular ducts.

Hazard, stated plainly. This is an invasive intra-oral bloodletting reserved for acute, severe presentations and performed only by a trained practitioner. It is contraindicated in bleeding disorders and with anticoagulant medication, and demands scrupulous hygiene. It is never a substitute for immediate biomedical emergency care if the airway is compromised. Our record carries no arterial caution in the nine-point sense, but the deep lingual artery centrally is exactly why only the side veins are touched.

What is not claimed. No safe-depth study applies to a vein prick; safety rests on avoiding the central vessel and on operator skill.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (extra-point needling record, retained unchanged including the central-vessel warning, against our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources; regional anatomy from standard anatomical description.

Is there research on Jin Jin and Yu Ye, and what should a reader know?

No trial isolates these points. Where they appear it is in post-stroke speech or tongue-swelling protocols, and a study that includes a point in a protocol is not evidence about that point.

What this page can state with confidence. Jin Jin and Yu Ye (“Golden Liquid, Jade Fluid”, EX-HN-12/13) are paired extra points on the veins under the tongue, pricked to bleed — only the lateral veins, never the central vessel — to clear heat, generate fluid, reduce tongue swelling and support speech. They are a practitioner-only, acute-presentation technique.

A safety note that outranks every TCM claim on this page. Sudden tongue swelling affecting breathing is a life-threatening emergency requiring immediate emergency medical care — this page records a historical response and says, in the same breath, to call for help.

A note on searching for them. Coded EX-HN-12 (Jin Jin) and EX-HN-13 (Yu Ye); older texts group them as M-HN-20. Any claim should be checked against what a study actually used.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (extra-point action, indication and location records queried, against our own data).