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POINT: GB-10 (GALL BLADDER-10)

NAME: FUBAI

English: Floating White
Also Known As:

LOCATION:

  • Posterior to the ear, along the curved line drawn from GB-9 Tianchong to GB-12 Wangu running within the hairline and more or less parallel to the line of the rim of the ear, in a depression about one third of the distance between GB-9 Tianchong to GB-12 Wangu.
  • About 1 cun below and posterior to GB-9 Tianchong on the superior part of the mastoid process.
  • Posterior and superior to the mastoid process, at the junction of the middle third and upper third of the curved line connecting GB-9 Tianchong to GB-12 Wangu.

NEEDLING:

  • Transverse insertion 0.5 to 1.5 cun.
    Note: this point may be needled in any direction depending on symptomology. The needle should be inserted deep to the subcutaneous layer, into the loose areolar tissue adjacent to the bone of the skull, rather than shallowly.
  • Slanted insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Puncture subcutaneously 0.3 to 0.5 cun,
  • Moxibustion is applicable.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Meeting point of the Urinary Bladder channel

ACTIONS:

  • Clears the head
  • Benefits the neck region
  • Activates the channel
  • Alleviates pain

INDICATIONS:

  • Headache
  • Heaviness of the head
  • Chills and fever
  • Toothache
  • Deafness
  • Tinnitus
  • Pain of the shoulder and arm
  • Inability to raise the arm
  • Flaccidity of the legs with inability to walk
  • Stiffness and pain of the neck
  • Goiter
  • Swelling and pain of the neck
  • Throat Bi
  • Fullness of the chest with dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Cough with expectoration of Phlegm and foam
  • Bronchitis

COMBINATIONS:

GB-12
Wangu

    

Toothache and tooth decay

   

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

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