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Alternate names: 热府 rè fǔ, House of Heat

Channel: GB, foot lesser yáng (shào yáng) gallbladder channel; shared point on the yáng springing (yáng qiāo) vessel; shared point on the yáng linking (yáng wéi) vessel

Modern location: An acupoint located on the posterior aspect of the neck, below the occipital bone, in the large depression between the trapezius and the sternocleidomastoid muscles.

Classical location: In the depression within the hairline behind the ear and the temple region, below Brain Hollow (GB-19). If the point is pressed [a sensation is] felt in the ear. From The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (针灸大成 zhēn jiǔ dà chéng)

Local anatomy: The branches of the occipital artery and vein. The branch of the lesser occipital nerve.

Action: Courses wind and clears heat; clears the head and opens the orifices; brightens the eyes and sharpens the hearing; frees the channels and quickens the network vessels; harmonizes qì and blood.

Modern indications: Headache; dizzy vision; painful red swollen eyes; deep-source nasal congestion; sniveling and nosebleed; tinnitus; painful stiffness of the neck and nape; common cold; epilepsy; wind stroke; goiter; febrile disease; malarial disease; goiter.

Classical indications: sniveling and nosebleed; tinnitus; wind stroke loss of speech; lumbar and back pain; hemilateral headache and medial headache; insomnia; withdrawal disease; absence of sweating in cold damage or warm disease.

Needle stimulus: Needling: 0.5‒1.0 cùn perpendicular insertion. Moxa: 3‒7 cones; pole 5‒20 min.

Point groups: Intersection point (jiāo huì xué) of the gallbladder channel and yáng linking vessel (yáng wéi mài) and yáng springing vessel (yáng qiāo mài).

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