Face Points Flashcards
(14 cards)
SI 18: QUANLIAO Cheekbone Foramen
The point lies directly inferior to the outer canthus of the eye, in a hollow just inferior to the zygomatic arch and anterior to the masseter muscle. Find the outer canthus of the eye (the angle of the meeting of the eyelids). From here drop straight down over the large ridge of the cheekbone to the inferior edge of this bone. With your finger on the point, ask your
patient to close their mouth and then to pretend to chew. You will feel the masseter muscle bulging next to your finger. Now with their face relaxed palpate gently for the point.
Dispersing actions: Expel Wind. Clear Heat. Relieve pain (Local point).
SI 19: TINGGONG Listening Palace
LOCATION
This point is located midway between the tragus and the
temporomandibular joint (anterior to the middle of the tra-
gus and posterior to the condyloid process of the mandible),
in the depression formed when the mouth is slightly open.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit or lie in the supine position with their
mouth slightly open. Locate the point on their face, in the
depression between the anterior border of the middle of the
tragus and the posterior border of the condyloid process of
the mandible.
Dispersing actions: Benefit the ear.
Tonifying actions: Promote discerning and discriminating function of the Small Intestine.
Strengthen and calm the Spirit. Benefit the ear.
Main Use: Exit point (often with Bl 1). Strengthen and calm the Spirit (Fire CF). Benefit the ear
(mainly in deficiency conditions)
Bl 1: JINGMING. Eyes Bright
LOCATION
In the slight depression on the margin of the medial eye
orbit, 0.1 cun superior and medial to the inner canthus.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit while looking upward or lie in the supine
position. Locate the point on his or her face, in the depres-
sion between the superomedial part of the inner canthus of
the eye and the medial wall of the orbit.
Dispersing actions: Expel Wind. Clear Heat. Brighten the eyes. Stop itching.
Tonifying actions: Tonify Bladder Qi. Strengthen the Spirit (Water CF). Brighten the eyes.
Main Use: Entry point (often with SI 19). Tonify Bladder Qi and strengthen the Spirit (Water CF).
Eye diseases.
Bl 2: ZANZHU Collecting Bamboo
This point Is found close to the medial end of the eyebrow. Feel the ridge of bone above the eye (the supra-orbital ridge) in the area a little lateral to the medial end of the eyebrow. Here you will find a notch in the bone. This is the supra-orbital notch. The point lies in this notch
and it often feels quite sensitive to pressure. The notch tends to be either directly superior
to BI 1, or superior and a little lateral to BI 1.
LOCATION
In the slight depression on the margin of the medial eye
orbit, 0.1 cun superior and medial to the inner canthus.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit while looking upward or lie in the supine
position. Locate the point on his or her face, in the depres-
sion between the superomedial part of the inner canthus of
the eye and the medial wall of the orbit.
Dispersing actions: Expel (external) Wind. Clear Heat. Subdue Liver Yang. Brighten the eyes.
Alleviate pain. Clear the nose.
Tonifying actions: Brighten the eyes (eg when affected by symptoms of Liver deficiency).
Main Use: Eye problems. Clear the nose (often with LI 20 or Yintang).
TB 21: ERMEN Ear Gate
The point lies anterior to the most superior aspect of the tragus of the
ear. Find the highest part of the tragus of the ear and then move your finger forwards to find a shallow depression that lies superior to
SI 19. Palpate here for the hollow of the point. The hollow becomes slightly more obvious if the person opens their mouth.
Location guide anatomy book
LOCATION
Anterior to the supratragic notch and slightly superior to the condyloid process of the mandible. The point is located where the depression is formed when the mouth is slightly open.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit with their mouth slightly open. Locate this point on their face, in the depression between the supratragic notch and the condyloid process of the man- dible. This point is directly above SI-19 (ting gong).
TB 22: ERHELIAO. Harmony Foramen
Find the anterior, superior root of the
pinna of the ear. Move your finger forwards by about 1 - 1’12 cun, at this level, to a place about ‘/2 cun posterior to the anterior natural
hairline. Feel for a shallow depression that lies in this area about 1/2 cun superior to the zygomatic arch. If you palpate very lightly you will feel a small artery running horizontally
here. The point lies here in the centre of the bony depression, just superior to the artery. The point is anterior and superior to TB 21.
Anatomy book guide
LOCATION
On the lateral side of the head, at the level of the upper mar- gin of the root of the auricle, along the superficial temporal artery, where the pulsation of the artery can be felt.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit. Locate this point on their head, poste- rior to the temple, anterior to the auricular root. The point is located posterior to the superficial temporal artery and 1 cun anterior to the root of the auricle.
INDICATIONS
ENT disorders: Tinnitus.
Neurological disorders: Headache, migraine, and facial palsy.
Ophthalmic disorders: Eye disease.
Musculoskeletal disorders: Lockjaw.
FUNCTIONS
Expels wind and alleviates pain.
TB 23: SIZHUKONG. Silk Bamboo Hollow
Run your finger out laterally along the line of the person’s eyebrow (along the supra-orbital
arch) until you arrive at the lateral extremity of this ridge of bone, lateral to the outer canthus. Here the bone (frontal bone) turns to run steeply downwards as a thin vertical ridge of bone on the lateral side of the orbit.
Roll your finger out laterally to a marked.depression on the lateral side of this bony ridge. The point lies in this depression, just close to the bone. TB 23 lies directly superior
to GB 1.
Anatomy book guide
LOCATION
In the depression at the lateral end of the eyebrow.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit. Locate this point on the head, in the depression at the lateral end of the eyebrow. Palpate upward from the outer canthus of the eye.
GB 1: TONGZILIAO Pupil Foramen
The point lies just lateral to the vertical ridge of bone which forms the lateral border of the orbit, level with the outer canthus. With the person’s eyes open, note the outer canthus (the angle at the meeting of the eyelids) of their eye. Imagine a
horizontal line from the outer canthus to the edge of the orbit. Place your finger at the level of this imaginary line on the vertical ridge of bone (of the zygomatic bone) at the
lateral side of the orbit. Roll your finger out laterally over this ridge (still on a level with the outer canthus), and the point lies where you first begin to fall into a hollow. The point is tucked in quite close to the posterior edge of the bone and lies directly inferior to TB23.
Anatomy book guide
LOCATION
Approximately 0.5 cun lateral to the outer canthus of the eye, in the depression on the lateral border of the orbit.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit with eyes closed. Locate this point on the lateral side of the head in the depression, 0.5 cun lateral to the outer canthus of the eye.
GB 2: TINGHUI. Hearing Assembly
LOCATION
Directly below SI-19 (ting gong), on the posterior margin of the condylar process of the mandible, anterior to the intertragic notch, where the depression is formed when the mouth is widely opened
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit with their mouth open wide. Locate this
point in the depression between the intertragic notch of the
ear and the condyloid process of the mandible.
INDICATIONS
Local disorders: Temporomandibular joint pain and lockjaw.
Neurological disorders: Facial palsy, deviation of the eye
and mouth, and headache.
ENT disorders: Deafness, tinnitus due to liver-yang rising,
and otitis media.
Communicable disorders: Mumps.
Dental disorders: Toothache.
FUNCTIONS
Benefits and opens the ears, expels wind-heat, and relaxes
the sinews.
St 1 * CHENGQI Receive Tears
With the person’s eyes open and the person looking straight ahead, look at the centre of their pupil. Imagine a vertical line travelling straight down
to the gap between the eyeball and the infraorbital ridge of bone. The point lies here in a hollow between eye and bone, and it often feels quite sensitive to pressure, so feel gently for the notch in the bone. For extra help to establish the position of St 1 follow the line of the Stomach Channel up from St 2 and 3.
Dispersing actions: Expel Wind (int and ext). Stop lacrimation. Clear Heat. Benefit the Eye.
Tonifying actions: To open Entry Point in entry-exit bloc.
Main Uses: As the entry point (often with LI 20). Local point for eye problems.
GB 14: YANGBAI Yang White
The point is found 1 cun directly above the eyebrow, in line with the centre of the pupil of the eye, with the eye looking straight forwards. To find 1 cun, look at the person’s head in profile and identify the bulge in the lower third of the person’s forehead. The top of the bulge forms a slight dip and is at 1 cun. From the eyebrow feel up the forehead vertically in line with the centre of the pupil to this dip and then palpate for the slight hollow of the point.
LI 20: YINGXIANG Welcome Fragrance
Observe the person’s nostril and the surrounding nasal wing, or alum. This point is found on a level with the middle of the lateral side of the nasal
wing, or at the level of the widest part of the flare of the wing. The point lies a little lateral to the nasal wing of the nose, in the crease that runs from the nose to the corner of the mouth (the laugh line). The angle of insertion of the needle varies according to how the point is being used. The needle may be inserted obliquely and sub-cutaneously in the direction of Bl2, or towards the extra point Bitong (half-way down
the side of the nose).
Ren 24: CHENGJIANG Receiving Fluid
In the middle of the crease that lies on the chin beneath the lower lip. Feel up over the chin into the crease. If you press you can feel a gap here between the underlying roots of the teeth. Depression is slightly easier to feel
when the mouth is open.
Du 26: RENZHONG (SHUIGOU) Middle of the Person
Find the philtrum, or the groove that runs from the mid-point of the nose to the centre of the top of the upper lip. The point lies a third of the way down the philtrum. If you press here, you can feel a gap between the underlying roots of the teeth.
