Reverting yīn (jué yīn) headache

1. Headache due to reverting yīn (jué yīn) disease in cold damage, characterized by headache and neck pain, dry retching, ejection of foaming drool, and reversal cold of the limbs.

Medicinal therapy: Treat with Evodia Decoction (吴茱萸汤 wú zhū yú tāng).

Acumoxatherapy: Select GV-20 (Hundred Convergences, 百会 bǎi huì), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn), and ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ); needle with drainage and add moxa. Apply moxa at LR-1 (Large Pile, 大敦 dà dūn).

2. Headache located on the reverting yīn (jué yīn) channel (i.e., the vertex), for which evodia (Evodiae Fructus, 吴茱萸 wú zhū yú) can be used as a channel conductor.

Acumoxatherapy: Select GV-20 (Hundred Convergences, 百会 bǎi huì), Alert Spirit Quartet (四神聪 sì shén cōng), LR-8 (Spring at the Bend, 曲泉 qū quán), LR-3 (Supreme Surge, 太冲 tài chōng), CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), and KI-1 (Gushing Spring, 湧泉 yǒng quán).

See headache.