Extra Points Flashcards
Waihuaijian
On the highest prominence of the lateral malleolus
- 1 cun prick to bleed
- beriberi, toothache, tonsilitis
Erjian
Fold the auricle, pt is at the apex of the ear.
- 1-0.2 prick to bleed
- redness, swelling and pain of the eyes, febrile disease and nebula
Haiquan
In the center of the frenulum of the tongue, between jinjin and yuye
- 1-0.2 prick to bleed
- heaviness, swelling and pain of the tongue, lotus flower tongue in children, facial paralysis, wasting and thirsting disorder, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and hiccough
Juquan
W/ maximal extension of the tongue, located in the center of the tongue body
- 2 cun perpendicular
- stiff or flaccid tongue, aphasia, diabetes, asthma, cough, hypogeusestbesia
Inner Neiting
on the plantar aspect of the foot, between the 2nd and 3rd metatarsal bones, opposite of ST 44
- 2-0.3 Perpendicular
- acute epigastric pain, local pain, epilepsy and restlessness
Yin Tang
Midway between the medial ends of the eyebrows
- 3-0.5 cun Subcutaneous
- headache, heaviness of the head, epistaxis, rhinorrhea, infantile convulsion, frontal headache and insomnia
Baxie
on the dorm of the hand at the junction of the white android skin of the hand webs, locate with a loose fist
- 3-0.5 un oblique
- excessive heat, finder numbness, spasm and welling of the dorsum of the hand
Bailao
2 cun above Du 14, 1 cun lateral to the midline
- 3-0.5 cun perpendicular
- scrofula, cough , asthma, whooping cough and neck rigidity
Taiyang
In the depression about 1 cun posterior to the midpoint between the lateral end of the eyebrow and outer canthus
- 3-0.5 cun perpendicular
- headache, eye diseases, deviation of the eyes and mouth
Zhongquan
In the depression between LI 5 and SJ 4
- 3-0.5 cun perpendicular
- stuffy chest, gastric pain, spitting of blood
Heding
In the depression of the midpoint t of the superior patellar border
- 3-0.5 cun perpendicular
- knee px, paralysis and weakness of the foot and leg
Yuyao
Midpoint of the eyebrow
- 3-0.5 cun subcutaneous
- pain in the supraorbital region, twitching the eyelids, posts, cloudiness of the cornea, redness, swell and pain of the eyes
Bitong/shangyingxian
highest point of the nasolabial groove
- 3-0.5 subcutaneous upwards
- rhinitis, nasal obstruction and nasal boils
Dangyang
With the patient looking straight ahead, directly above the pupil, 1 cun above the anterior hairline
- 5 cun, oblique or transverse
- dizziness, opthalmalgia, stuffy nose, common cold, headache, conductivity and apoplectic stroke
Weiguanxiashu
- 5 cun lateral to the lower border of the 8th thoracic vertebrae
- 5-0.7 cun oblique
- diabetes, vomiting, abdominal pain, pain in the chest and hypochondriac region