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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.

Point name meaning:

• 浮 fú: to float, to drift, to rise
• 白 bái: white, pure

The character 浮 (fú), meaning rising, is a reference to the rising of liver and gallbladder yáng qì, while 白 (bái), meaning white, is the color associated with metal and refers to the point’s metal-like function of restraining wood (liver-gallbladder). The point name is therefore a reference to GB-10‘s use in treating the dizziness and headache that result from hyperactivity of liver yáng.

The ideograph 白 (bái) may be taken as a reference to the lung, as this point is utilized in the treatment of various lung disorders such as fullness in the chest with panting, throat impediment (hóu bì) and counterflow cough. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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