Atlas of Acupuncture

4.11 Gall Bladder Channel System – Foot shaoyang(zu shao yang jing luo)

Location

In a depression on the level of the apex of the ear, within the cir-

cumauricular temporal hairline, approximately at the junction of

a horizontal line through the apex of the ear and a vertical line

along the posterior border of the temple anterior to the ear.

How to find

Locate G.B.-7by palpating for a small depression anterior to the

apex of the ear at the circumauricular temporal hairline. The

point is located approximately at a junction between a horizon-

tal line through the apex of the ear and a vertical line along the

posterior border of the temple anterior to the ear.

For orientation: ➞T.B.-20is located directly superior to the

apex of the ear.

Needling

0.3–1.5 cun transversely (subcutaneously) in the direction of the

occiput or towards the site of the disorder/pain.

Actions/Indications

● Expels Wind

● Benefits the mouth and jaw

Special features

Meeting point with the BL channel

Crook of the Temple QUBIN G.B.-7

G.B.-7 T.B.-20

Circumauricular

hairline

Anterior border

of the ear

0.5 cun

T.B.-20

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