EL14 Mianjiaqu (Cheek Area)

Location

At the area where Areas 3, 5, 6 meet on the Earlobe

Indications

Conditions for which EL14 is listed as indicated. An indication list is a reference index, not a prescription – see the protocols below for sourced treatments.

Protocols using EL14

• Wrinkles Nasolabial-fold – EL14, IN03 (doi:10.1111/jocd.70629 ↗)
• Chloasma – LI04, LI11, ST36, SP06, SP10, AT12, CVC02, EL14, IN01, TF10 (doi:10.1155/2018/6438458 ↗)
• Dysphagia Post-stroke – AT10, AT12, EL04, EL14, HCS03 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗)
• Lupus Discoid – CVC02, EL14, IN01, TF08, TF09, TR01, TR13 (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)
• Chloasma – LI04, ST36, SP06, BL18, BL20, BL23, CVC02, CVC06, CYC08, CYC11, EL14, IN01, IN02, TF08, TF10 (Zhu Bing, Wang Hongcai (eds). Case Studies from the Medical Records of Leading Chinese Acupuncture Experts. London: Singing Dragon, 2011)

Most often selected alongside EL14

How many sourced protocols in the index pair each point with EL14. Corpus frequency, not a combination to use.

• CVC02Lung4 protocols
• IN01Endocrine4 protocols
• AT12Nervous Subcortex2 protocols
• LI04Junction Valley2 protocols
• SP06Three Yin Intersection2 protocols
• ST36Leg Three Miles2 protocols
• TF08Uterus (Female) / Male Internal Genital (Male)2 protocols
• TF10Shenmen2 protocols
• TR01Adrenal Gland2 protocols
• AT05Forehead1 protocols
• AT10Brain Stem1 protocols
• BL13Lung Shu Point1 protocols

Other points on the Auricular Points