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Alternate names: 率骨 shuài gǔ, Following the Bone; 率角 shuài jiǎo, Following the Corner; 蟀容 shuài róng, Cricket Container

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

Modern location: An acupoint located on the lateral aspect of the head, about 1.5 cùn superior to the apex of the ear.

Classical location: In the depression one and a half cùn within the hairline above the ear. Bite and the point can be felt. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The parietal branches of the superficial temporal artery and vein. The anastomotic branch of the auriculotemporal nerve and great occipital nerve.

Action: Courses wind and quickens the network vessels; relieves pain.

Modern indications: Hemilateral headache; dizziness: child acute fright wind and chronic fright wind.

Classical indications: Stomach cold; vexation and fullness after eating; persistent retching and vomiting; chronic child fright wind; cough; expectoration of phlegm; eye diseases; head wind with pain at the corners of the forehead.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.2‒0.3 cùn transverse insertion. Moxa: 3 cones; pole 5‒15 min.

Point groups: Intersection point (jiāo huì xué) of the gallbladder and bladder channels.

Point name meaning:

• 率 shuài: to lead
• 谷 gǔ: valley

To find this point, one bends the ear in half lengthwise and follows its straight edge past the hairline to the depression (valley) about 1.5 cùn above the tip of the ear. In this way, one is led to the valley.

Of all the valley (谷 gǔ) points on the body, GB-8 has the topmost location. Considered in this light, the point is the lead for all the other valley points.

In Following the Corner and Following the Bone, the character 率 (shuài) is rendered as following because the names are locational. In the poetic name Cricket Container 率 has evolved into its homophone 蟀, meaning cricket.

Note that the character 谷 gǔ means valley, and in the modern simplified script, it replaces 穀 gǔ meaning grain. See acupoint names: origins, meanings, and translations.

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