SJ-07 (Hui Zong) Convergence and Gathering

What does SJ-07 Hui Zong do?

SJ-07 is the Xi-Cleft point of the San Jiao channel — a YANG channel, so it carries the acute function without the bleeding indication that yin-channel Xi-Cleft points hold. Our record gives it a single action, and it is squarely the channel’s own business.

• Clears the San Jiao channel and benefits the ears — the whole of the recorded action

The ear is this channel’s signature. The San Jiao channel runs from the ring finger up the back of the arm and shoulder to the side of the neck, then around the ear and to the outer eyebrow — which makes it the ear channel in classical practice. Our SJ-03 record makes the same point from the hand, and SJ-17 Yi Feng and SJ-21 Er Men carry it locally at the ear itself. All are held here.

Verified against our own data: the yang-channel rule holds here. Testing the classical Xi-Cleft rule against our own indication records gives eleven of twelve on the channel points: all six yang-channel Xi-Cleft points — SJ-07, LI-07, ST-34, SI-06, BL-63, GB-36 — carry no bleeding indication, while four of the six yin ones do. SJ-07’s indication list contains none, exactly as predicted.

Xi-Cleft means acute. These are the points the classical texts reach for when a condition is sudden or severe rather than long-standing. Read that way, SJ-07 is for acute ear pain and sudden hearing disturbance rather than for a chronic pattern — which is what separates it from SJ-03 and SJ-05 on the same forearm.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (channel, category and action records; all sixteen Xi-Cleft points and their indication records queried and tested against our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources.

What is SJ-07 Hui Zong used for?

SJ-07 is used for deafness and ear pain, for epilepsy, and for pain of the arm. Our own indication record is short and is reproduced here in full.

• Deafness
• Pain in the ear
• Epilepsy
• Pain of the arm

An honest note. Sudden hearing loss requires medical assessment and is treated as urgent in conventional medicine, where time to treatment matters. Epilepsy likewise requires diagnosis and management. This record describes classical use and is not a suggestion that assessment be delayed. The same framing is applied on SI-19, SJ-17 and ST-07 in this library.

Ear pain sits well with the classification. Of the ear indications a channel can carry, acute pain is the one a Xi-Cleft point would be expected to hold — and it is what distinguishes SJ-07 from the local ear points, which cover the whole range of ear complaints.

How it is combined. With SJ-17 Yi Feng behind the earlobe and SJ-21 Er Men in front of it — distal and local together, the standard classical pairing for hearing complaints. With SJ-03 Zhong Zhu, the channel’s tonification point, or SJ-05 Wai Guan, the Luo-Connecting point and Confluent point of the Yang Wei Mai, both on the same forearm. With SI-19 Ting Gong and GB-02 Ting Hui at the ear’s opening. All held here.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (indication record; SJ-03, SJ-05, SJ-17, SJ-21, SI-19 and GB-02 classifications queried from our own data), cross-referenced against multiple online sources.

Where is SJ-07 Hui Zong located?

SJ-07 is on the back of the forearm, three cun above the wrist, level with SJ-06 but on the little-finger side of it — in the gap between the ulna and the extensor tendons. Our own record locates it by reference to SJ-06, which makes the two inseparable in practice.

• 3 cun proximal to SJ-04 Yang Chi at the wrist
• Level with SJ-06 Zhi Gou, on its ulnar side — the two sit at the same height on the forearm
• In the depression between the ulna and extensor digitorum communis

Two points at the same level is an unusual arrangement, and it is the thing most likely to cause an error here. SJ-06 and SJ-07 are not distinguished by counting up the arm — they are the same distance from the wrist — but by which side of a gap between bone and tendon the finger falls on. Counting correctly and still choosing the wrong point is possible at this level in a way it is not elsewhere on the forearm.

They also carry different classifications. SJ-06 Zhi Gou is the Jing-River and Fire point — and being Fire on a yang Fire channel, the horary point — while SJ-07 is the Xi-Cleft point. Substituting one for the other substitutes an entire category.

On the name. “Hui Zong” is rendered Convergence and Gathering, which suits a Xi-Cleft point where the channel’s qi is described as collecting deeply. Unlike Yin Xi or Xi Men, the name does not use the xi character, so the classification has to be looked up rather than read off.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (location and translation records, retained unchanged; SJ-04's and SJ-06's classifications queried from our own data).

• A Manual of Acupuncture (p. 400): 3 cun proximal to Yangchi SJ-4, level with and on the ulnar side of Zhigou SJ-6, in the depression between the ulna and the extensor digitorum communis muscle.
• Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (p. 204): At the level with Zhigou (SJ-6), on the ulnar side of Zhigou (SJ-6), on the radial border of the ulna.

How is SJ-07 Hui Zong needled?

The standard texts record perpendicular insertion to roughly 0.5–1.0 inch, with moxibustion applicable. What follows is a neutral record of what the reference literature documents, not instruction for a reader.

• Angle and depth as recorded: perpendicular, 0.5–1.0 inch.
• Moxibustion: recorded as applicable.
• Regional anatomy: the point lies between the ulna and the extensor digitorum communis, over the extensor compartment of the forearm. The posterior interosseous nerve and vessels run deep in that compartment, on the interosseous membrane — the structures our SJ-05 record names, since SJ-05 sits two cun distal on the same channel.

Hazard, stated proportionately. This is a low-hazard point: no body cavity beneath the forearm, no major vessel in the recorded path, and a moderate depth. The interosseous structures our SJ-05 record documents are attributed there rather than presented as measured at SJ-07. No study measuring a safe depth at SJ-07 could be located, and none is borrowed. No case report naming SJ-07 was located, and none is asserted.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (needling record, retained unchanged; SJ-05's forearm anatomy queried from our own data and attributed to SJ-05), cross-referenced against multiple online sources; regional anatomy from standard anatomical description.

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

No trial isolates SJ-07. Where the point appears it is one component of a protocol, most often for tinnitus or sudden hearing loss, and a study that includes a point in a protocol is not evidence about that point.

That caveat is worth repeating for this channel specifically. Tinnitus has a reasonable volume of acupuncture trials, the San Jiao channel points feature in most of them, and our records for SJ-03, SI-19 and SJ-17 all make the same observation. Where several points from one region appear together in every protocol, a protocol result tells you nothing about any individual member — and secondary sources attributing such a result to one named point should be checked against what the trial actually used.

What this page can state with confidence. The classification and its yang-channel consequence, tested against our own indication data; the unusual same-level relationship with SJ-06 and the different categories the two carry; and the acute reading that follows from being a Xi-Cleft point. All three are checkable and none rests on absent research.

A note on searching for it. “TE 7”, “SJ 7” and “Huizong” searches return protocol trials and unrelated material matched on the code or on a surname. Note also that this library codes the San Jiao channel SJ-, while much of the literature uses TE- (Triple Energizer) or TB- (Triple Burner) — three conventions for one channel, and a reader comparing sources should know which is in use.

Source: Sacred Lotus sources & references (classification and indication records; the SJ-03, SJ-17 and SI-19 research observations and channel-coding convention queried from our own data).