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

Modern location: An acupoint located on the lateral aspect of the neck, level with the angle of the mandible, on the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid (scm) muscle.

Classic location: At the outer border of the major sinew of the neck, behind Celestial Countenance (SI-17) and in front of Celestial Pillar (BL-10), below the completion bone [i.e., the mastoid process]. (Zhēn Jiǔ Dà Chéng)

Local anatomy: The posterior auricular artery. The lesser occipital nerve.

Action: Clears heat and drains fire; dispels wind and eliminates dampness; reduces swelling and relieves pain; frees the channels and quickens the network vessels.

Modern indications: Headache; eye pain; deafness; scrofula; stiff nape.

Classic indications: Scrofula; eye pain and tearing; sniveling nose with nosebleed; throat impediment (hóu bì); loss of smell; dreaming in deranged sequence; mammary welling-abscess (rǔ yōng); swelling of supraclavicular fossa; submandibular swelling.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3‒0.5 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒5 cones; pole 5‒10 min.

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