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POINT: GB-4 (GALL BLADDER-4)

NAME: HANYAN

English: Jaw Serenity
Also Known As: Jaw's Dislike
Loathsome Jaws

LOCATION:

  • On the temple, one-fourth the distance from ST-8 Touwei to GB-7 Qubin.
  • Within the hairline of the temporal region, at the junction of the upper quarter and lower three quarters of the distance between ST-8 Touwei to GB-7 Qubin.

NEEDLING:

  • Slanted insertion, 1 to 1.5 cun.
  • Transverse insertion 0.5 to 1.5 cun.
    Note: This point may be needled in any direction. Direction depends on the symptomatology. Direct the needle towards the point of pain, or join to other head points.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Meeting point of the San Jiao and Stomach channels

ACTIONS:

  • Eliminates Wind
  • Clears Heat
  • Activates the channel
  • Alleviates pain

INDICATIONS:

  • Migraine headache
  • Tinnitus
  • Seizures
  • Convulsions
  • One-sided headache
  • Head Wind with pain at bilateral Taiyang
  • Redness of the outer canthus
  • Earache
  • Neck pain
  • Wrist pain
  • Inability to flex the wrist
  • Vertigo
  • Pain in the outer canthus
  • Toothache
  • Epilepsy
  • Headache with Heat in the body
  • Visual dizziness
  • Clonic spasm
  • Lockjaw
  • Deviation of the mouth and eye
  • Sneezing
  • Joint Wind with sweating

COMBINATIONS:

GB-5
Xuanlu

DU-21
Qianding
DU-19
Houding

DU-19
Houding
UB-9
Yuzhen

One-sided headache

Wind dizziness

One-sided headache

Wind dizziness

UB-58
Feiyang
KI-1
Yongquan

 

 

Neck pain

Joint pain and sweating

 

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

NOTES:

  • Generally this point is only needled if tender.