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Alternate names: 泪空 lèi kōng, Tear Hole; 眉本 méi běn, Root of the Eyebrow; 眉头 méi tóu, Eyebrow; 眉中 méi zhōng, At the Eyebrow; 明光 míng guāng, Bright Light; 始光 shǐ guāng, Beginning of Light; 夜光 yè guāng, Night Light; 元柱 yuán zhù, Origin Pillar; 员在 yuán zài, Man Present; 员柱 yuán zhù, Pillar Border

Channel: BL, foot greater yáng (tài yáng) bladder channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the face, in a small depression at the medial end of the eyebrow.

Classical location: In the depression on the eyebrow above Bright Eyes (BL-1). From The Golden Mirror of Medicine (医宗金鑑 yī zōng jīn jiàn)

Local anatomy: The frontal artery and vein. The medial branch of the frontal nerve.

Action: Dispels wind qì; brightens the eyes.

Modern indications: Headache; deviated eyes and mouth; unclear vision; tearing; painful red swollen eyes; twitching of the eyelids: pain in the supraorbital ridge; drooping eyelids (blepharoptosis).

Classical indications: Wind dizziness; painful hemorrhoids; infantile epilepsy with the upward staring eyes; aversion to wind and cold; stiff nape.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.3‒0.5 cùn transverse insertion in inferior lateral direction; bleed with three-edged needle. Moxa: pole 1‒3 min.

Point name meaning:

• 攒 zǎn: to gather, collect, bring together; save, accumulate
• 竹 zhú: bamboo

When bamboo is gathered and put in bunches, it can be seen to resemble a large eyebrow. The character 攒 (zǎn), meaning to gather, has a hand radical, 手 shǒu. Because BL-2 is located at the inner extreme of the eyebrow, its position is analogous to the hand that gathers the bamboo.

BL-2 may be translated as Bamboo Gathering because the eyebrow resembles a bamboo leaf, and the inner corner, where the point is located, is the spot where the brow (or leaf) gathers. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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