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Alternate names: 窍阴（头） qiào yīn (tóu), Orifice Yin (head); 枕骨 zhěn gǔ, Occipital Bone; 枕骨 zhěn gǔ, Pillow Bone

Channel: GB, Foot Lesser Yáng (shào yáng) Gallbladder Channel

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

Classic location: Above Completion Bone (GB-12) and below [in front of] the occipital bone, in a hollow felt when the head is turned. (Zhēn Jiǔ Dà Chéng)

Local anatomy: The branches of the posterior auricular artery and vein. The anastomotic branch of the great and lesser occipital nerves.

Action: Clears heat and disinhibits gallbladder channel damp-heat; frees the ears and disinhibits the throat.

Modern indications: Headache; deafness; tinnitus.

Classic indications: Welling- and flat-abscesses (yōng jū); vexing heat in the hands and feet; stiff tongue; throat impediment (hóu bì); taxation flat-abscess (jū); goiter; nausea and bitter taste in the mouth.

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

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

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