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Headache attributed to static blood resulting from external injury or from stagnation in the vessels in enduring sickness. Static blood headache is a continually intermittent pain of fixed location, like the piercing of an awl. Accompanying signs include a stagnant complexion, stasis speckles on the tongue, and a rough pulse.

Medicinal therapy: Quicken the blood and transform stasis. Use formulas such as Orifice-Freeing Blood-Quickening Decoction (通窍活血汤 tōng qiào huó xuè tāng) or House of Blood Stasis-Expelling Decoction (血府逐瘀汤 xuè fǔ zhú yū tāng) or variations.

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on LI, SP, and ouch points (阿是穴 ā shì xué). Drain ouch points (阿是穴 ā shì xué) on the head, and prick them to bleed in order to drain stasis and free the network vessels. Drain BL-17 (Diaphragm Transport, 膈俞 gé shù), SP-10 (Sea of Blood, 血海 xuè hǎi), LI-4 (Union Valley, 合谷 hé gǔ), and SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo) to quicken the blood, and supplement LI-4 (Union Valley, 合谷 hé gǔ) to move qì.

See also headache.

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