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Channel: TB, hand lesser yáng (shào yáng) triple burner channel

Modern location: An acupoint located a little more than 1 fēn below the base of the nail on the ulnar side of the fourth finger.

Classical location: On outer side of the finger next to the little finger, the width of a garlic chive leaf away from the corner of the nail. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The arterial and venous network formed by the palmar digital proprial artery and vein. The palmar digital proprial nerve derived from the ulnar nerve.

Action: Dispels wind and disperses evils; resolves triple burner evil heat; courses the channels and network vessels; clears heat and drains fire.

Modern indications: Headache; red eyes; deafness; painful swollen throat; stiff tongue; febrile disease.

Classical indications: Pain in the shoulder and arm; tinnitus; deafness; inability to get food and drink down; eye screens; evil heat in the triple burner; absence of sweating in febrile disease; throat impediment (hóu bì); curled tongue; dry mouth; pain in the root of the tongue.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.1 cùn upward oblique insertion. Moxa: 1‒3 cones; pole 5‒15 min.

Needle sensation: Localized pain.

Point groups: Well (jǐng) (metal) point.

Point name meaning:

• 关 guān: passage, gate, door
• 冲〔衝〕 chōng: hub, thoroughfare; 冲 surge, flush

The word passage (关 guāng) in the point name reflects the function of the triple burner as a conduit for the passage of qì from the upper to the lower body. Here, the character 冲 (chōng) may be considered as a reference to PC-1 as a point where the qì changes channels i.e., a hub.

This point is located on the tip of the ring finger. The names of the points on the tips of the middle and small fingers include the character 冲 (冲). The ring finger lies in between the other hubs, PC-9 and HT-9, resembling a passageway between them. The character 冲 (chōng) also may refer to the surging flow of qì at this point.

The qì at the well (jǐng) points is usually described as small and still, like the water of a well. It is perhaps the nature of the reaction that these points evoke when they are needled that results in them also being described as places of surging qì. PC-9 and HT-9 are other well (jǐng) points that have the character 冲 (chōng), to surge, in their point names. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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