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POINT: SI-19

English: Palace of Hearing
Also Known As: Listening Palace
  • With the mouth opened slightly, this point is located in the depression between the tragus and mandibular joint.
  • With the mouth open, this point is located in the depression between the middle of the tragus and the condyloid process of the mandible.
  • Perpendicular insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Straight insertion with the mouth open, direct the needle downward, 1.5 to 2 cun. Sensation: local distention and soreness, possibly extending throughout the side of the face; sometimes a distended sensation in the eardrum extending outward.
  • Meeting point with the Gall Bladder and San Jiao channels
  • Exit point
  • Benefits the ears
  • Calms the Shen
  • All ear disorders
  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Otitis media
  • Inflammation of the external ear canal
  • Pus in the ear
  • Deaf-mutism
  • Headache due to ear pain
  • Aural vertigo
  • Cicada song in the ear
  • Becoming deaf with a sensation of something blocking the ear
  • Otitis externa
  • Seizures and insanity
  • Pain in the chest and abdomen
  • Motor impairment of the mandibular joint
  • Seizures
  • Mania with auditory hallucinations
  • Melancholia
  • Painful discharge from the ear
  • Epilepsy
  • Loss of voice
  • Fullness of the Heart and abdomen
  • Toothache
  • Pain and itching of the ear
  • Ear blocked
  • Polyps of the auditory canal
  • Otorrhea
  • Depressive psychosis
  • Madness
  • Laryngitis

GB-2
Tinghui
SJ-17
Yifeng
ST-36
Zusanli
LI-4
Hegu

SI-17
Tianrong
GB-2
Tinghui
SJ-3
Zhongzhu

SJ-3
Zhongzhu

SJ-22
Erheliao
SJ-5
Waiguan
LI-1
Shangyang
GB-2
Tinghui
LI-4
Hegu
PC-9
Zhongchong

Deafness due to Qi obstruction

Deafness and tinnitus

Deafness

SJ-21
Ermen
GB-20
Fengchi
GB-43
Xiaxi
GB-2
Tinghui

UB-20
Pishu

SJ-17
Yifeng
LI-4
Hegu

Impaired hearing and deafness

Sadness below the Heart

Otitis media

GB-2
Tinghui

SJ-17
Yifeng
SJ-7
Huizong

 

 

Deafness

 

 

  • This point is effective when the deeper spirit is closed off and is hard to reach.
  • this is a frequently used local point for tinnitus and deafness, especially associated with Lung and Heart Qi Deficiency.