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Channel: GB, foot lesser yáng (shào yáng) gallbladder channel

Modern location: An acupoint located posterior to the ear, in the depression about one third of the distance from GB-9 (tiān chōng) to GB-12 (wán gǔ) on a line connecting these two points.

Classical location: Behind the ear, one cùn within the hairline. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: See GB-9.

Action: Courses and disinhibits the liver and gallbladder; disperses wind and frees the network vessels.

Modern indications: Headache; tinnitus; deafness; eye pain; goiter.

Classical indications: Heat effusion and aversion to cold; wind headache; heavy-headedness; toothache; throat impediment (hóu bì); fullness in the chest and panting; painful swelling of the neck; goiter; cough and counterflow with phlegm and foam; wilting (wěi) of the legs that prevents walking.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3 cùn transverse insertion. Moxa: 3 cones; pole 5‒15 min.

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

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