Face Points Flashcards
SI 18: QUANLIAO Cheekbone Foramen
The point lies directly inferior to the outer canthus of the eye, in a hollow just inferior to the zygomatic arch and anterior to the masseter muscle. Find the outer canthus of the eye (the angle of the meeting of the eyelids). From here drop straight down over the large ridge of the cheekbone to the inferior edge of this bone. With your finger on the point, ask your
patient to close their mouth and then to pretend to chew. You will feel the masseter muscle bulging next to your finger. Now with their face relaxed palpate gently for the point.
SI 19: TINGGONG Listening Palace
The point lies anterior to the midpoint of the tragus of the
ear. This point must be located and needled with the mouth open. Identify the tragus of the ear and then find an imaginary horizontal.
mid-line of the tragus at the level of its widest part. Extend this horizontal line forwards into the cavity that is found directly anterior to the
tragus when the mouth is held open. The point lies here in the centre of this cavity, between the tragus and the mandibular joint.
Bl 1: JINGMING. Eyes Bright
This point lies approximately 0.1 cun superior and 0.1 cun medial to the inner canthus of the eye. With the person’s eyes open, look at the inner
canthus of the eye (the angle at the meeting of the eyelids). Now look for a hollow about 0.1 cun medial and 0.1 cun superior to the inner canthus. The size and depth of this hollow will vary from person to person; on
some people it will look like a deep well. To satisfy yourself you have found the point in the correct place, touch it with your fingertip and make sure that it neither feels hard and gristly underneath (the lachrymal
bone), nor tense and smooth (the eyeball), but that it feels soft and deep.There are two tiny veins in a ‘V’ shape near this point. When needling the point, make sure that you are to one side or between them. Needle this point with the patient’s eyes
closed.
Bl 2: ZANZHU Collecting Bamboo
This point Is found close to the medial end of the eyebrow. Feel the ridge of bone above the eye (the supra-orbital ridge) in the area a little lateral to the medial end of the eyebrow. Here you will find a notch in the bone. This is the supra-orbital notch. The point lies in this notch
and it often feels quite sensitive to pressure. The notch tends to be either directly superior
to BI 1, or superior and a little lateral to BI 1.
TB 21: ERMEN Ear Gate
The point lies anterior to the most superior aspect of the tragus of the
ear. Find the highest part of the tragus of the ear and then move your finger forwards to find a shallow depression that lies superior to
SI 19. Palpate here for the hollow of the point. The hollow becomes slightly more obvious if the person opens their mouth.
Location guide anatomy book
LOCATION
Anterior to the supratragic notch and slightly superior to the condyloid process of the mandible. The point is located where the depression is formed when the mouth is slightly open.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit with their mouth slightly open. Locate this point on their face, in the depression between the supratragic notch and the condyloid process of the man- dible. This point is directly above SI-19 (ting gong).
TB 22: ERHELIAO. Harmony Foramen
Find the anterior, superior root of the
pinna of the ear. Move your finger forwards by about 1 - 1’12 cun, at this level, to a place about ‘/2 cun posterior to the anterior natural
hairline. Feel for a shallow depression that lies in this area about 1/2 cun superior to the zygomatic arch. If you palpate very lightly you will feel a small artery running horizontally
here. The point lies here in the centre of the bony depression, just superior to the artery. The point is anterior and superior to TB 21.
Anatomy book guide
LOCATION
On the lateral side of the head, at the level of the upper mar- gin of the root of the auricle, along the superficial temporal artery, where the pulsation of the artery can be felt.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit. Locate this point on their head, poste- rior to the temple, anterior to the auricular root. The point is located posterior to the superficial temporal artery and 1 cun anterior to the root of the auricle.
TB 23: SIZHUKONG. Silk Bamboo Hollow
Run your finger out laterally along the line of the person’s eyebrow (along the supra-orbital
arch) until you arrive at the lateral extremity of this ridge of bone, lateral to the outer canthus. Here the bone (frontal bone) turns to run steeply downwards as a thin vertical ridge of bone on the lateral side of the orbit.
Roll your finger out laterally to a marked.depression on the lateral side of this bony ridge. The point lies in this depression, just close to the bone. TB 23 lies directly superior
to GB 1.
Anatomy book guide
LOCATION
In the depression at the lateral end of the eyebrow.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit. Locate this point on the head, in the depression at the lateral end of the eyebrow. Palpate upward from the outer canthus of the eye.
GB 1: TONGZILIAO Pupil Foramen
The point lies just lateral to the vertical ridge of bone which forms the lateral border of the orbit, level with the outer canthus. With the person’s eyes open, note the outer canthus (the angle at the meeting of the eyelids) of their eye. Imagine a
horizontal line from the outer canthus to the edge of the orbit. Place your finger at the level of this imaginary line on the vertical ridge of bone (of the zygomatic bone) at the
lateral side of the orbit. Roll your finger out laterally over this ridge (still on a level with the outer canthus), and the point lies where you first begin to fall into a hollow. The point is tucked in quite close to the posterior edge of the bone and lies directly inferior to TB23.
Anatomy book guide
LOCATION
Approximately 0.5 cun lateral to the outer canthus of the eye, in the depression on the lateral border of the orbit.
LOCATION GUIDE
Have the patient sit with eyes closed. Locate this point on the lateral side of the head in the depression, 0.5 cun lateral to the outer canthus of the eye.
GB 2: TINGHUI. Hearing Assembly
The point lies directly anterior to the most inferior part of the tragus. Locate and needle this point with the
mouth wide open. Find the lowest part of the tragus of the ear and behind this, separated by a recess, is the little tubercle of the anti-tragus.
It lies directly below SI 19.
