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.
Indications
Conditions for which XH44 is listed as indicated. An indication list is a reference index, not a prescription – see the protocols below for sourced treatments.
AlaliaDifficulty SwallowingMutismSore ThroatPharyngitis AcutePharyngitis ChronicSaliva ExcessiveSalivation ExcessiveSpeech SlurredStomatitisVoice Loss
Protocols using XH44
- Sleep Apnea Obstructive – CV23, XH44 (doi:10.1177/19336586251366065 ↗)
- Snoring, Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Sleep Apnea Obstructive – CV23, XH44 (doi:10.1177/19336586251366065 ↗)
- Dysphagia Post-stroke – LI04, HT05, GB12, GB20, CV23, GV20, XH44, MS06 (doi:10.1155/2020/4689296 ↗)
- Dysphagia Post-stroke, Pseudobulbar Palsy Post-stroke – GB20, GV16, XH44 (doi:10.13703/j.0255-2930.2018.04.006 ↗)
- Dysphagia Post-stroke, Pseudobulbar Palsy – CV17, CV22, GV16, GV17, GV20, XH44 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗)
- Stroke, Hemiplegia, Aphasia, Intracerebral Hemorrhage – LU11, LI01, LI04, LI11, ST40, SP06, HT09, SI01, PC09, TB01, GB20, GB30, LV03, GV20, XH44 (Henry C. Lu. Clinical Cases of Acupuncture)
- Aphasia – LI04, HT05, CV23, XH44 (Henry C. Lu. Clinical Cases of Acupuncture)
- Tremor Jaw – LI04, ST07, GB20, LV03, XH44 (Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994)
- Paralysis Soft Palate – LI04, XH44 (Zhang Dengbu. Acupuncture Cases from China: A Digest of Difficult and Complicated Case Histories. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994)
Most often selected alongside XH44
How many sourced protocols in the index pair each point with XH44. Corpus frequency, not a combination to use.
- LI04Junction Valley5 protocols
- CV23Clean Spring4 protocols
- GB20Wind Pool4 protocols
- GV20100 Convergences3 protocols
- GV16Wind Mansion2 protocols
- HT05Inward Connection2 protocols
- LV03Great Surge2 protocols
- CV17Chest Centre1 protocols
- CV22Celestial Prominence1 protocols
- GB12Mastoid Process1 protocols
- GB30Jumping Circle1 protocols
- GV17Brain Door1 protocols
