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Channel: SI, hand greater yáng (tài yáng) small intestine channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the ulnar aspect of the wrist, in the depression between the triquetral bone and the ulnar styloid process.

Classical location: At the wrist, in the depression at the protuberant bone [i.e., the distal extremity of the ulna]. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The posterior carpal artery. The dorsal branch of the ulnar nerve.

Action: Resolves heat and disperses swelling; quiets the spirit and settles tetany.

Modern indications: Headache; dizzy vision; deafness; tinnitus; febrile disease; mania and withdrawal; epilepsy; hypertonicity of the fingers; wrist pain.

Classical indications: Rib-side pain; dizzy vision and eye pain; infantile tugging and slackening; withdrawal disease; throat impediment (hóu bì); sensation of obstruction of the pharynx; aching among the upper and lower teeth; painful hemorrhoids.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.2‒0.4 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3 cones; pole 5‒20 min.

Point groups: River (jīng) (fire) point.

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