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Channel: GB, foot lesser yáng (shào yáng) gallbladder channel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the lateral aspect of the head, slightly posterior to the temporal hairline, three quarters of the distance from ST-8 (tóu wéi) to GB-7 (jiǎo sūn) along the line connecting these two points.

Classical location: On the curved hairline in the lower margin of the temples. From The Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸甲乙经 zhēn jiǔ jiǎ yǐ jīng)

Local anatomy: See GB-4.

Action: Courses wind and quickens the network vessels; frees the orifices and moves qì.

Modern indications: Hemilateral headache; painful red swollen eyes; toothache; pain in the outer canthus.

Classical indications: Tinnitus; sneezing; painful reddening of the outer canthus; absence of sweating in febrile disease; facial swelling and reddening; hemilateral headache.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.2‒0.3 cùn backward transverse insertion. Moxa: 3 cones; pole 5‒10 min.

Point groups: Intersection point (jiāo huì xué) of the hand and foot lesser yáng (shào yáng) (TB and GB) and stomach channels.

Point name meaning:

• 悬 xuán: to suspend, to hang
• 厘 (釐) : a very small unit of length or weight; minute

The character 厘 (lí) was originally used to represent the breadth of an ox’s hair, and by extension came to have the more general meaning of minute. Because of its original meaning, the character is sometimes replaced by its homophone 牦, which means tuft of hair. Since the hair at the temple must be lifted (i.e., suspended) to locate GB-6, the point is named Suspended Tuft. One source records that the hair at this point is stiff and will remain suspended by itself if lifted.

This point is separated from GB-5 by only a small distance (厘 lí). The name of this point could be rendered as Slightly Separated from Suspended Skull to reflect this fact. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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