Extra Points: Head

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四神聰 (sì shén cōng)

🎯 Location: Four points at the vertex of the scalp, grouped around baihui du-20 & located 1 thumb width anterior, posterior & lateral to the it.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, depression, wind, deafness, epilepsy

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四神聰 (sì shén cōng)

🎯 Location: Four points at the vertex of the scalp, grouped around baihui du-20 & located 1 thumb width anterior, posterior & lateral to the it.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, depression, wind, deafness, epilepsy

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四神聰 (sì shén cōng)

🎯 Location: Four points at the vertex of the scalp, grouped around baihui du-20 & located 1 thumb width anterior, posterior & lateral to the it.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, depression, wind, deafness, epilepsy

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四神聰 (sì shén cōng)

🎯 Location: Four points at the vertex of the scalp, grouped around baihui du-20 & located 1 thumb width anterior, posterior & lateral to the it.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, depression, wind, deafness, epilepsy

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 當陽 (dāng yáng)

🎯 Location: Vertically above the pupil, 1 thumb width above the anterior hairline..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, heat, wind, pain:headache, pain:eye

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 印堂 (yìn táng)

🎯 Location: At the glabella, at the midpoint between the medial extremities of the eyebrows.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: anxiety, dizziness, wind, pain:face, insomnia

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 魚腰 (yú yāo)

🎯 Location: In the centre of the eyebrow, in the depression the directly above the pupil when the eyes are looking straight forward.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: redness, swelling, pain, pain:eye, benefit:eyes

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 太陽 (tài yáng)

🎯 Location: At the temple, in the tender depression the approximately 1 thumb width posterior to the midpoint between the lateral extremity of the eyebrow & the outer canthus of the eye.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with temporal artery.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, heat, wind, swelling, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 耳尖 (ěr jiān)

🎯 Location: When the ear is folded forwards, this point lies at the apex of the ear.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, redness, swelling, pain, swelling:throat

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 球後 (qiú hòu)

🎯 Location: Along the inferior border of the orbit, at the junction of the lateral one quarter & medial three quarters of the infraorbital margin.

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated for direct needling; use only pressure.

🛡️ Treats: disease:eye, benefit:eyes

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 鼻通 / 上迎香 (bí tōng / shàng yíng xiāng)

🎯 Location: At the highest point of the naso-labial groove.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with facial nerve.

🛡️ Treats: congestion:nasal, nosebleed, discharge:nasal, polyp:nasal, rhinitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 內迎香 (nèi yíng xiāng)

🎯 Location: In the nasal cavity, at the junction of the nasal bone and the nasal cartilage..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with facial nerve.

🛡️ Treats: heat, insomnia, heat:fire

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 聚泉 (jù quán)

🎯 Location: With maximal extension of the tongue, in the centre of the tongue body..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: taste:loss, neutralise:yin, neutralise:yang, deviation:tongue, atrophy:tongue

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 海泉 / 舌下中风 (hǎi quán / shé xià zhōng fēng)

🎯 Location: In the centre of the frenulum of the tongue between jinjin the & yuye (m-hn-20).

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with sublingual vessels.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, paralysis:face, pain:abdomen

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 金津 (jīn jīn)

🎯 Location: In the mouth, on the vein the in the left side of the frenulum of the tongue.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with sublingual vessels.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, swelling, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 玉液 (yù yè)

🎯 Location: In the mouth, on the vein the in the right side of the frenulum of the tongue.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with sublingual vessels.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, swelling, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 翳明 (yì míng)

🎯 Location: On the neck, 1 thumb width posterior to the yifeng (tb17).

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated for direct needling; use only pressure.

🛡️ Treats: tinnitus, heat, damp, deafness, insomnia

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 颈百劳 / 百勞 (jǐng bǎi láo / bǎi láo)

🎯 Location: At the back of the neck, 2 thumb widths superior to the dazhui du-14, 1 thumb width lateral to the midline.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution near carotid artery and jugular vein.

🛡️ Treats: cough, dyspnoea, phlegm, sweating, fever:tidal

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 安眠 (ān mián)

🎯 Location: Behind the ear, midway between fengchi gb-20 & yifeng sj-17, close but slightly posterior & inferior to the wangu gb-12.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, tinnitus, palpitations, epilepsy, insomnia

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腮腺 (sāi xiàn)

🎯 Location: On the cheek, at the midpoint of the line connecting the lower border of the ear lobe and the angle of the mandible..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in parotid infections or inflammation.

🛡️ Treats: heat, wind, mumps

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 下承浆 (xià chéng jiāng)

🎯 Location: 1 thumb width lateral to the chengjiang (cv. 24), at the mental foramen of the mandible..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: jaundice, heat, paralysis:face, wind, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 内頰車 (nèi jiá chē)

🎯 Location: On the mucosa of the mouth, opposite jiache (st6).

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in TMJ disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, paralysis:face, wind, stagnation:collaterals

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腋门 (yè mén)

🎯 Location: On the surface of the tongue, 1 thumb width from the tongue tip.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling; proximity to axillary vessels and nerves.

🛡️ Treats: open:orifice, benefit:speech, aphasia

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 頭三角 (tóu sān jiǎo)

🎯 Location: Three points, on the forehead at the crossing points of the perpendicular line from the inner canthus, the front hairline, and shangxing (du23).

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: insomnia, pain:headache, circulation:blood, calm:mind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 上天柱 (shàng tiān zhù)

🎯 Location: 0.5 thumb widths directly above the tianzhu (bl10).

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with vertebral artery.

🛡️ Treats: hyperthyroidism, benefit:eyes, pacify:liver, suppress:yang, exophthalmus

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 新明 (xīn míng)

🎯 Location: On the joint of the ear lobe and cheek, 0.5 thumb widths anterior and superior to the yifeng (tb17).

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated for direct needling; use only pressure.

🛡️ Treats: atrophy:optic, eyesight / vision:acuity

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 新明 (xīn míng)

🎯 Location: On the forehead, 1 thumb width above the and 0.5 thumb widths lateral to the lateral end of the eyebrow.

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated for direct needling; use only pressure.

🛡️ Treats: atrophy:optic, eyesight / vision:acuity

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 交中 (jiāo zhōng)

🎯 Location: On the midpoint of the line connecting xiaguan (st7) and jiache (st6).

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: cold, wind, circulation:blood, circulation:qi, disease:tempero-mandibular joint

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 內地倉 (nèi dì cāng)

🎯 Location: On the mucus of the mouth, opposite dicang (st4).

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with facial nerve.

🛡️ Treats: vomiting, descend:qi:stomach:rebellious

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 崇骨 (chóng gǔ)

🎯 Location: On the posterior midline of the nape, at the inferior edge of the spinous process of the 6th cervical vertebra..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: cough, cold:common, epilepsy, malaria, bronchitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 唇里 (chún lǐ)

🎯 Location: In the vestibule of the mouth, on the mucous membrane of the lower lip, in the lip groove close to the gum..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: swelling:cheek, pain:cheek, gingivitis, stomatitis, disease:liver

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 牽正 (qiān zhèng)

🎯 Location: On the cheek, 0.5 thumb widths anterior to the earlap, the same levelas the midpoint of the earlap.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: heat, wind, ulceration:mouth, paralysis, ulceration:tongue

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 阳维 (yáng wéi)

🎯 Location: At the root of the inner side of the ear shell, and the incision the between the front and the tragus is level. the auricle is pulled forward, and the string is formed at the root of the auricle..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: tinnitus, deafness, epilepsy:infantile, otitis media

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 发际 (fā jì)

🎯 Location: On the forehead, 0.5 thumb widths from the hairline, 4.5 thumb widths from the midpoint..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, discharge:nasal, migraine, drowsiness

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 血壓點 (xuè yā diǎn)

🎯 Location: At the midpoint of the line connecting jingming (bl1) and cuanzhu (bl2).

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in severely hypertensive patients.

🛡️ Treats: pacify:liver, suppress:yang, hypertension:high blood pressure

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 山根 (shān gēn)

🎯 Location: In the middle of the two-eye line..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: jaundice, epilepsy, memory:poor, angulation, sleepiness

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 悬命 (xuán mìng)

🎯 Location: In the oral vestibule, the inner side of the upper lip, and the upper lip is in the center of the belt. the upper lip is turned up to the take the place where the hanging point is located..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: stroke, disorder:psychological:insanity, confusion, epilepsy:infantile

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 上腭穴 (shàng è xué)

🎯 Location: At the midpoint of the upper edge of the gingival sac, on the palate behind the front teeth..

⚠️ Cautions: Use with caution; sensitive area.

🛡️ Treats: jaundice, cold, pain:headache, rhinitis, pain:toothache:superior

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 燕口 (yàn kǒu)

🎯 Location: In the red and white flesh of the facial mouth, the skin the and mucous membranes are in the transitional part, and the close-up silo is where the yankou acupuncture points..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: neuralgia:trigeminal, disorder:psychological:insanity, palsy:face:facial nerve

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 鱼尾 (yú wěi)

🎯 Location: On the face, when the outside of the eye is about 0.1 inch away from the outside; sit or sit on the side to the take a hole..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with facial nerve.

🛡️ Treats: dizziness, paralysis, disorder:eye, gingivitis, migraine:vascular

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 地合 (dì hé)

🎯 Location: On the lower jaw, below chengjiang (cv24) , at the high point of the mandible in the middle of the forward protrusion..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: paralysis:face, pain:headache, pain:toothache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 下翳风 (xià yì fēng)

🎯 Location: 2 thumb widths below tb17.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with facial nerve.

🛡️ Treats: pain:toothache, tonsillitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 鼻炎 (bí yán)

🎯 Location: Lateral to the midline and midpoint of the nose, between the hard and soft bones of the nose..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with facial nerve.

🛡️ Treats: heat, wind, congestion:nasal, rhinitis, sinusitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 正光 (zhèng guāng)

🎯 Location: Midway between bl2 and yuyao.

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated for direct needling; use only pressure.

🛡️ Treats: eyesight / vision:myopia:short sightedness

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 正光 (zhèng guāng)

🎯 Location: Midway between sj23 and yuyao.

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated for direct needling; use only pressure.

🛡️ Treats: eyesight / vision:myopia:short sightedness

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 頸臂 (jǐng bì)

🎯 Location: 1 thumb width superior to the junction of the proximal and middle third of the clavicle..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution near carotid artery and jugular vein.

🛡️ Treats: paraesthesia, immobility:extremities:superior:paralysis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 上明 / 外明 (shàng míng / wài míng)

🎯 Location: Directly below the midpoint of the arch of the eyebrow, just under the superior border of the orbit. below yuyao..

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated for direct needling; use only pressure.

🛡️ Treats: paralysis:face, atrophy:optic, disorder:eyelids, pterygium, glaucoma

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 上廉泉 (shàng lián quán)

🎯 Location: 1 thumb width below midpoint of the lower jaw, in the depression the between the hyoid bone and the lower border of the jaw..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with hyoid bone.

🛡️ Treats: pharyngitis:chronic, voice:loss, pain:throat:soreness, mutism, stomatitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 新设 (xīn shè)

🎯 Location: Between the third and fourth cervical vertebrae, 1.5 thumb widths from the midline..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:shoulder, pain:throat, pain:headache, immobility:neck, immobility:shoulder:inflammation

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 扁桃体穴 (biǎn táo tǐ xué)

🎯 Location: In the neck, when the lower jaw angle is 0.5 inches straight down..

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid during acute tonsillitis.

🛡️ Treats: heat, wind, mumps, pharyngitis, tonsillitis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Head

🇨🇳 Chinese: 裡炎 (lǐ yán)

🎯 Location: At the midpoint between the lowest point of the earlobe and the angle of the mandible..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, heat, distension:abdomen, pain:abdomen, dysentery