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POINT: DU-23 (GOVERNING VESSEL-23)  

NAME: SHANGXING

English: Upper Star
Also Known As: Guitang
Ghost Hall

LOCATION:

  • Located 1 cun within the hairline on the midline of the head.
  • On the midline of the head, 1 cun behind the natural hairline at the forehead.
  • At the top of the head on the midline , 1 cun posterior to the anterior hairline and 0.5 cun posterior to DU-24 Shenting.
  • Note: If the anterior hairline is indistinct, locate the point 3 cun superior to the glabella and 3 cun anterior to DU-20 Baihui.

NEEDLING:

  • Slanted insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention and pain.
  • Transverse insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Puncture subcutaneously 0.3 to 0.5 cun or prick to cause bleeding.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Sun Si-miao Ghost point

ACTIONS:

  • Clears the nose
  • Brightens the eyes
  • Clears Heat
  • Disperses Wind-Heat
  • Benefits the head and face
  • Dispels swelling
  • Calms the Shen
  • Clears the nasal cavity

INDICATIONS:

  • Nasal blockage
  • Sinusitis
  • Rhinitis
  • Nasal polyps
  • Nasal carbuncles
  • Epistaxis
  • Frontal headache
  • Loss of voice
  • Keratitis
  • Extra tissue in the nose
  • Dizziness
  • Nasal discharge
  • Nasal obstruction with headache
  • Inability to distinguish the fragrant from the foul
  • Clear nasal discharge
  • Ceaseless bleeding from the nose and mouth
  • Forehead neuralgia
  • Headache due to Wind
  • Ophthalmalgia
  • Inflammation of the eyeball
  • Nose blocked with inflammation of the turbinate bones
  • Mental disorders
  • Cannot see at a distance
  • Facial Blood congestion
  • Red face
  • Anhidrosis in febrile disease
  • eye pain
  • Redness of the inner canthus
  • Myopia
  • Sudden blindness
  • Eye pain, redness and swelling
  • Tearing due to Wind
  • Facial edema and redness
  • Fever without sweating
  • Tidal fever
  • Severe headache
  • Sinus problems
  • Seizures
  • Shortsightedness
  • Deficiency swelling of the face
  • Swelling of the skin of the head
  • Head Wind
  • Malaria
  • Mania-depression
  • Epilepsy
  • Severe headache
  • Wind and pain in the head which is swollen
  • Rhinorrhea
  • Sinus problems
  • Coryza
  • Intermittent fever
  • Swollen scalp
  • Veil before the eyes
  • Allergic rhinitis
  • Swelling of the vertex
  • Vertigo

COMBINATIONS:

DU-25
Suliao
LI-20
Yingxiang

LI-4
Hegu
LIV-3
Taichong

DU-20
Baihui
LI-4
Hegu

Epistaxis

Rhinitis

Headache

GB-40
Qiuxu
ST-43
Xiangu

DU-20
Baihui
DU-22
Xinhui
UB-6
Chengguang

LI-20
Yingxiang
UB-5
Wuchu
LI-19
Kouheliao

Tidal fevers

Obstruction of the nose with inability to distinguish the fragrant from the foul

Inability to distinguish the fragrant from the foul

UB-9
Yuzhen
DU-20
Baihui
GB-15
Touling
Danyang
(0.5 cun posterior to GB-15)

UB-7
Tongtian

LI-19
Kouheliao

Nasal congestion

Nasal obstruction and discharge

Nosebleed

LI-5
Yangxi
LI-2
Erjian
PC-7
Daling
LI-3
Sanjian
SI-2
 Qiangu

ST-44
Neiting

GB-20
Fengchi
DU-17
Naohu
UB-9
Yuzhen
DU-16
Fengfi

Eye pain

Pain of the eyeball

Pain of the eyes with inability to see

DU-24
Shenting
KI-1
Yongquan
UB-45
Yixi
LU-10
Yuji
SP-2
Dadu

GB-20
Fengchi
UB-10
Tianzhu

DU-24
Shenting
DU-22
Xinhui

Visual dizziness

Dizziness

Head Wind and dizziness

DU-20
Baihui
GB-43
Xiaxi
DU-21
Qianding
SI-5
Yanggu
LI-4
Hegu
SJ-1
Guanchong
UB-60
Kunlun

DU-22
Xinhui
DU-21
Qianding
ST-43
Xiangu
SP-4
Gongsun

DU-22
Xinhui
DU-21
Qianding
DU-17
Naohu
GB-20
Fengchi

Head Wind

Sudden swelling of the face

Redness and swelling of the face

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • Older books caution against using moxibustion on this point.
  • this point is prohibited in infants wit metopism.

NOTES:

  • It is said that excess moxibustion on this point will raise the Yang and lead to lack of clarity of vision.