Acupuncture Points on the Small Intestine Channel of Hand Tai Yang
- Meeting Point of the Small Intestine and Sanjiao Channels
Eliminates wind and alleviates painClears heat and reduces swelling
Facial Paralysis, twitching of the eyelids, pain in the face, toothache, swelling of the cheek, yellowish sclera.
Where is SI-18 located?
- A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 246): Directly below the outer canthus, in the depression at the lower border of the zygomatic bone.
- Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 173): Directly below the outer canthus, in the depression on the lower border of zygoma.
Puncture perpendicularly 0.5-0.8 inch.
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