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Channel: TB, Hand Lesser Yáng (shào yáng) Triple Burner Channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the posterior aspect of the upper arm, in the depression just proximal to the superior border of the olecranon.

Classic location: Up one cùn from the back of the tip of the large bone on the outer side of the elbow, in the depression between two sinews and the bone. The point is located with the arm bent over the chest. (Yī Zōng Jīn Jiàn)

Local anatomy: The arterial and venous network of the elbow. The posterior brachial cutaneous nerve and muscular branch of the radial nerve.

Action: Transforms phlegm-damp in the channels and network vessels; courses fire qì in the triple burner.

Modern indications: Hemilateral headache; deafness; scrofula; epilepsy.

Classic indications: malarial disease; numbness and tingling of the flesh at the shoulder; chest impediment (xiōng bì); heart pain; cough and counterflow qì ascent; fright palpitation; tugging and slackening; eye pain; deafness; throat impediment (hóu bì); spitting of pus; sorrow.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3‒0.7 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3 cones; pole 5‒10 min.

Needle sensation: Distension and numbness, spreading down to the hand or over the shoulder.

Point groups: Uniting (hé) (earth) point.

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