AT05 E (Forehead)

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Auricular Points

Location of acupuncture point AT05 E (Forehead)
4
Indications
13
Protocols
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Location

On both ears, at the midpoint of the lower half lateral line of the Exterior Antitragus.

No specific contraindications.

Indications

Conditions for which AT05 is listed as indicated. An indication list is a reference index, not a prescription – see the protocols below for sourced treatments.

Protocols using AT05

  • Obesity, Overweight – AT05, CYC01, CYC05, IN01, TF10 (doi:10.2196/14386 ↗)
  • Surgical Pain – AT05, CVC02, IAC01, TF10 (doi:10.3727/036012906815844265 ↗)
  • Headache Tension-type – AT05, AT06, AT07, AT12, IAC03, TF10 (doi:10.1186/s12906-025-05063-x ↗)
  • Cognitive Impairment – AT05, AT15, CVC01, CYC11, TF10 (doi:10.1016/j.explore.2020.04.004 ↗)
  • Hemiplegia Post-stroke – LI04, LI10, LI11, LI15, ST36, ST41, BL60, TB05, GB30, GB34, AT05, AT06, AT07, IAC01, IAC02, SAC01, SAC07, SAC11, SC01, SC03, SC04, SC05, SC06 (doi:10.1155/2020/5094914 ↗)
  • Infertility Recurrent Implantation Failure – AT05, AT06, AT07, CYC08, IN01, TF10 (doi:10.1155/2022/5274638 ↗)
  • Headache Migraine – AT05, AT06, AT07 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗)
  • Anxiety Postoperative, Stress Psychological – AT05, AT06, AT07, AT12, CVC06, CYC01, CYC08, CYC11, TF10 (doi:10.13703/j.0255-2930.2019.06.010 ↗)
  • Vertigo – ST40, GV20, AT05, AT07, AT12, CVC01, CVC02, CYC11, EL11, TF10 (doi:10.1155/2022/4295423 ↗)
  • Migraine, Paralysis Upper-limb – AT05, AT06, AT07 (Clinical Study on Auricular Acupoint Penetration Needli. Journal of Trad, 2011)
  • Paralysis Lower-limb – AT05, AT06, AT07, SAC11 (Clinical Study on Auricular Acupoint Penetration Needli. Journal of Trad, 2011)
  • Hallucinations Olfactory – LU07, LI04, LI20, PC06, XH03, AT05, AT12, TF10, TR10 (Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994)
  • Acne – BL13, BL15, BL17, BL21, BL25, GV14, AT05, CVC02, CYC05, EL14, IN01, TR01 (Zhu Bing, Wang Hongcai (eds). Case Studies from the Medical Records of Leading Chinese Acupuncture Experts. London: Singing Dragon, 2011)

Most often selected alongside AT05

How many sourced protocols in the index pair each point with AT05. Corpus frequency, not a combination to use.

  • AT07Occiput8 protocols
  • TF10Shenmen8 protocols
  • AT06Temple7 protocols
  • AT12Nervous Subcortex4 protocols
  • CVC02Lung3 protocols
  • CYC11Kidney3 protocols
  • IN01Endocrine3 protocols
  • CVC01Heart2 protocols
  • CYC01Stomach2 protocols
  • CYC05Large Intestine2 protocols
  • CYC08Liver2 protocols
  • IAC01Hip2 protocols