Atlas of Acupuncture

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

Location

2.5 cun superior to the anterior hairline and 2.25 cun lateral to

the midline.

How to find

First, on the midline, locate the anterior hairline (➞3.1.1, with

hairloss: when the patient frowns, the anterior hairline is marked

by the border between the creased forehead and the smooth skin

above) and ➞Du-20(at the junction of the vertical midline and

a line connecting the apices of the ears). The distance between

these two points is 5 proportional cun (➞2.2). Locate the mid-

point (for example by using the spreading hands technique

➞ 2.3.3). G.B.-17is located on the curved line connecting

➞G.B.-15and ➞G.B.-20(an extension of the pupil line, 2.25

cun lateral to the midline).

➞BL-6is also located 2.5 cun anterior to ➞Du-20, but 1.5 cun

lateral to the midline.

Needling

0.3–1.5 cun transversely (subcutaneously) towards the occiput

or the site of the disorder/pain.

Actions/Indications

● Expels Wind

● Opens the luo-connecting vessels

● Descends counterflow Stomach Qi

Special features

Meeting point with the yang wei mai

Upright Nutrition ZHENGYING G.B.-17

Apex of the ear

Midline

Apex of the ear

Anterior

hairline

G.B.-17

2.5 cun

Du-20

Pupil line

2.25 cun

2.5 cun

ST-8

Chewing movement

still palpable

Temporalis

Du-20

5 cun

Apex of the ear Apex of the ear

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