Acupuncture Points for Wind Liver

1 sourced protocol, each with its citation.

No study in this index covers Wind Liver

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Protocol (22 points)

90%

LU11 · ST01 · ST03 · ST04 · ST05 · ST06 · ST07 · ST08 · ST42 · ST45 · SI03 · SI08 · BL01 · BL02 · BL03 · BL04 · BL05 · BL06 · BL09 · BL10 · BL41 · XU25

LU11Lesser Metal

LU11 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Lung Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 少商 (shào shāng)

🎯 Location: On the radial side of the thumb about 0.1 thumb width posterior to the corner of the nail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders; caution with depth.

🛡️ Treats: Cough, Shortness of Breath, Sweating, Common Cold, Heat

ST01Tear Container

ST01 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 承泣 (chéng qì)

🎯 Location: With eyes looking straight forward, point is directly below pupil between eyeball and infraorbital ridge.

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

🛡️ Treats: Tinnitus, Common Cold, Heat, Wind, Redness

ST03Great Bone Hole

ST03 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 巨髎 (jù liáo)

🎯 Location: Directly below pupil at the level of the lower border of the ala nasi on the lateral side of the nasolabial groove.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep needling on face.

🛡️ Treats: Wind, Swelling, Pain, Facial Droop, Nosebleed

ST04Earth Granary

ST04 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 地倉 (dì cāng)

🎯 Location: Lateral to the corner of the mouth directly below pupil.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with facial nerve.

🛡️ Treats: Pain, Facial Droop, Channel Stagnation, Voice Loss, Toothache

ST05Great Reception

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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 大迎 (dà yíng)

🎯 Location: Anterior to the angle of the mandible on the anterior border of the attached portion of the masseter where pulsation of the facial artery is palpable in the groovelike depression the appearing when cheek is bulged.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with facial nerve and artery.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Wind, Swelling, Chills, Aversion Cold

ST06Jaw Bone

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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 頰車 (jiá chē)

🎯 Location: One finger breadth (middle finger) anterior & superior to the lower angle of the mandible where masseter is prominent when teeth are clenched & depressive when it is pressed.

⚠️ Cautions: Needle shallowly and obliquely; avoid the facial artery and deep needling into the joint capsule.

🛡️ Treats: Wind, Pain, Deviation Eye, Facial Droop, Mumps

ST07Below The Arch

ST07 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 下關 (xià guān)

🎯 Location: On the face anterior to the ear in the depression the between zygomatic arch and mandibular notch; point is located with mouth closed.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with temporal artery.

🛡️ Treats: Tinnitus, Swelling, Pain, Deafness, Deviation Eye

ST08Head Corner

ST08 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 頭維 (tóu wéi)

🎯 Location: On the lateral side of the head, 0.5 thumb widths above the anterior hairline at the corner of the forehead & 4.5 thumb widths lateral to the midline of the head.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Shortness of Breath, Dizziness, Vomiting, Wind

ST42Surging Yang

ST42 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 衝陽 (chōng yáng)

🎯 Location: On the dome of the instep of the foot between tendons of the long extensor muscle of the great the toe and long extensor muscle of the toes where pulsation of the dorsal artery of the foot is palpable.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Depression, Vomiting, Abdominal Bloating, Swelling

ST45Running Point

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🗺️ Meridian: Stomach Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 厲兌 (lì duì)

🎯 Location: On the lateral side of the 2nd toe 0.1 thumb width posterior to the corner of the nail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders or diabetes.

🛡️ Treats: Poor Appetite, Knee Pain, Dizziness, Jaundice, Heat

SI03Back Stream

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🗺️ Meridian: Small Intestine Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 後谿 (hòu xī)

🎯 Location: When loose fist is made point is on the ulnar end of the distal palmar crease proximal to the 5th metacarpophalangeal joint at the end of the transverse crease and junction of the red and white skin.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Knee Pain, Tinnitus, Jaundice, Common Cold

SI08Small Sea

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🗺️ Meridian: Small Intestine Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 小海 (xiǎo hǎi)

🎯 Location: When elbow is flexed point is located in the depression the between olecranon of the ulna and medial epicondyle of the humerus.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with ulnar nerve.

🛡️ Treats: Chest Pain, Palpitations, Jaundice, Qi Deficiency, Heat

BL01Bright Eyes / Eye Point

BL01 acupoint
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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 睛明 (jīng míng)

🎯 Location: In the depression the slightly above the inner canthus.

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

🛡️ Treats: Heat, Wind, Redness, Swelling, Aversion Cold

BL02Gathered Bamboo

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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 攢竹 (cuán zhú)

🎯 Location: On the medial extremity of the eyebrow or on the supraorbital notch.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with supraorbital nerve.

🛡️ Treats: Dizziness, Wind, Redness, Swelling, Pain

BL03Eyebrow Ascension

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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 眉衝 (méi chōng)

🎯 Location: Directly above the BL02, 0.5 thumb widths within the anterior hairline between GV24 and BL04.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Shortness of Breath, Dizziness, Wind, Epilepsy, Nasal Congestion

BL04Deviating Turn

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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 曲差 (qū chā)

🎯 Location: 0.5 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the anterior hairline and 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the midline at the junction of the medial 1/3 and lateral 2/3 of the distance from GV24 to the ST08.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Shortness of Breath, Heat, Nasal Congestion, Agitation, Nosebleed

BL05Fifth Place

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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 五處 (wǔ chù)

🎯 Location: 1 thumb width directly above the midpoint of the anterior hairline and 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the midline.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Dizziness, Wind, Epilepsy, Nasal Congestion, Muscle Spasms

BL06Receiving Light

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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 承光 (chéng guāng)

🎯 Location: 2.5 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the anterior hairline and 1.5 thumb widths lateral to the midline.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Dizziness, Vomiting, Wind, Facial Droop, Nasal Congestion

BL09Jade Pillow

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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 玉枕 (yù zhěn)

🎯 Location: 2.5 thumb widths directly above the midpoint of the posterior hairline and 13 thumb widths lateral to the midline in the depression on the level of the upper border of the external occipital protuberance.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Dizziness, Common Cold, Vomiting, Wind

BL10Celestial Pillar

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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 天柱 (tiān zhù)

🎯 Location: 1.3 thumb widths lateral to the midpoint of the posterior hairline and in the depression on the lateral aspect of the trapezius.

⚠️ Cautions: Caution with vertebral artery.

🛡️ Treats: Dizziness, Wind, Pain, Epilepsy, Nasal Congestion

BL41Attached Branch

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🗺️ Meridian: Bladder Meridian

🇨🇳 Chinese: 附分 (fù fēn)

🎯 Location: 3 thumb widths lateral to the du mai at the level of the lower border of the spinous process of the 2nd thoracic vertebra on the spinal border of the scapula.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid deep perpendicular needling due to risk of pneumothorax.

🛡️ Treats: Fever, Common Cold, Common Cold, Heat, Vomiting

XU25Stop Tremor Point

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🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 消顫穴 (xiāo chàn xué)

🎯 Location: At the medial forearm, in the depression, 0.5-1 thumb width inferior to the HT03.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: Wind Liver, Tremor, Disease Parkinson's, Wind Liver, Disease Parkinson's

Text or case report

Point selection recorded in a clinical text or case report.

Yang Yong-Xuan, clinical point-selection notes
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Related symptoms

Often treated alongside Wind Liver:

Points cited for Wind Liver

How often each point appears across the 1 entries ranked highest for Wind Liver. Citation frequency, not a recommendation.

  • BL01Bright Eyes / Eye PointBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • BL02Gathered BambooBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • BL03Eyebrow AscensionBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • BL04Deviating TurnBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • BL05Fifth PlaceBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • BL06Receiving LightBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • BL09Jade PillowBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • BL10Celestial PillarBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • BL41Attached BranchBladder Meridian1 of 1
  • LU11Lesser MetalLung Meridian1 of 1
  • SI03Back StreamSmall Intestine Meridian1 of 1
  • SI08Small SeaSmall Intestine Meridian1 of 1

How the studies delivered it

None of the studies behind these entries says how the points were stimulated or for how long.

After a treatment: what large safety surveys recorded, and which reactions need a doctor.

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