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Channel: TB, hand lesser yáng (shào yáng) triple burner channel

Modern location: An acupoint located underneath the earlobe, in the hollow between the mandible and the mastoid process.

Classical location: In the depression behind the tip of the ear. When the point is pressed it causes pain in the ear. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The posterior auricular artery and vein, the external jugular vein. The great auricular nerve; deeper, the site where the facial nerve issues from the stylomastoid foramen.

Action: Courses wind and discharges heat; frees the orifices and sharpens the hearing; quickens the network vessels and relieves pain.

Modern indications: Tinnitus; deafness; deviated eyes and mouth; clenched jaw; toothache; swelling of the cheek; scrofula.

Classical indications: Jaw pain; deviated eyes and mouth; tetany; clenched jaw preventing speech; red and white eye screens; poor eyesight; all wind diseases.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5‒1.0 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒5 cones; pole 5‒10 min.

Needle sensation: Localized twinge and distension, sometimes spreading into the region of the throat or radiating into the ear.

Point groups: Intersection point (jiāo huì xué) of the gallbladder and triple burner channels.

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