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Indications
16
Protocols
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Location
4 thumb widths proximal to the dorsal crease of the wrist between radius and ulna.
No specific contraindications.
Indications
Conditions for which TB08 is listed as indicated. An indication list is a reference index, not a prescription – see the protocols below for sourced treatments.
PainChannel Stagnation
TCM actions
What classical sources say TB08 does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the point, not a condition.
Benefit Sanjiao
Protocols using TB08
- Rib Pain – TB05, TB08, LV13 (doi:10.1155/2012/268237 ↗)
- Head Pain, Headache Migraine, Headache Unilateral – TB08, TB19, GB33 (doi:10.1186/s12967-014-0351-6 ↗)
- Headache Migraine, Migraine Without Aura – TB08, GB33, GB42 (doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2017.05.013 ↗)
- Gastric Emptying Delayed, Feeding Intolerance Enteral, Gastric Residual Volume High – ST36, ST37, ST39, SP03, PC06, TB08 (doi:10.1155/2017/1892161 ↗)
- Neck Chronic Pain – LI10, LI11, TB05, TB08 (doi:10.1016/s0254-6272(10)60063-5 ↗)
- Migraine Without Aura – TB08, GB33, GB42 (doi:10.1177/0333102416641665 ↗)
- Fever, Common Cold – TB08, GB20, GV14 (doi:10.1136/acupmed-2014-010629 ↗)
- Migraine – TB08, TB19, GB33 (doi:10.1186/s12967-014-0351-6 ↗)
- Migraine Without Aura – TB08, GB33, GB42 (doi:10.3389/fnins.2021.729218 ↗)
- Gastric Emptying Delayed – ST36, ST37, ST39, SP03, PC06, TB08 (doi:10.1155/2017/1892161 ↗)
- Postoperative Pain – LI04, TB08, GB34, GB36 (doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.12.064 ↗)
- Transvaginal Oocyte Retrieval Procedure Pain – ST36, TB08, GV20, TF08 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗)
- Migraine Without Aura – TB08, GB33, GB42 (doi:10.1038/srep20298 ↗)
- Surgical Intraoperative Pain – LI04, TB08 (doi:10.1007/bf02934687 ↗)
- Headache – LI04, ST36, TB08, GB08, GB20, XH03, XH05 (Chen Jirui, Nissi Wang (eds). Acupuncture Case Histories from China. Seattle: Eastland Press, 1988)
- Quadriplegia, Myelitis Acute – LI10, LI15, SP06, BL18, BL23, TB08, GB34, GB39, XB02C2, XB02C3, XB02C4, XB02C5, XB02C7, XB02L2, XB02L3, XB02L4, XB02L5, XB02T1 (Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994)
Most often selected alongside TB08
How many sourced protocols in the index pair each point with TB08. Corpus frequency, not a combination to use.
- GB33Yang Knee Gate6 protocols
- GB42Earth Fivefold Convergence4 protocols
- ST36Leg Three Miles4 protocols
- LI04Junction Valley3 protocols
- GB20Wind Pool2 protocols
- GB34Yang Mound Spring2 protocols
- LI10Arm Three Miles2 protocols
- PC06Inner Gate2 protocols
- SP03Great White2 protocols
- ST37Upper Great Hollow2 protocols
- ST39Lower Great Hollow2 protocols
- TB05Outer Gate2 protocols