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POINT: SJ-19 (SAN JIAO-19)

NAME: LUXI

English: Skull's Rest
Also Known As:

LOCATION:

  • Posterior to the ear, at the junction of the upper and middle third of the curve formed by SJ-17 Yifeng and SJ-20 Jiaosun, behind the helix.
  • Posterior to the ear, in a small depression two-thirds of the distance along a curved line drawn from SJ-17 Yifeng and SJ-20 Jiaosun, following the line of the rim of the ear.
  • 1 cun above SJ-18 Qimai behind the ear.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture obliquely 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Moxibustion is applicable.
  • Subcutaneous insertion along the course of the channel 0.3 to 0.5 cun, or prick to bleed.
    Note: according to several classical tests bleeding this point is contraindicated.
  • Slanted insertion 0.1 to 0.3 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

ACTIONS:

  • Benefits the ears
  • Clears Heat
  • Calms fright
  • Relieves tetany

INDICATIONS:

  • Headache
  • Tinnitus
  • Deafness
  • Pain in the ear
  • Infantile convulsions
  • Dizziness
  • Tetany
  • Fright and fear
  • Childhood vomiting of foamy, watery saliva
  • Seminal emission
  • Otitis media
  • Discharge of pus from the ear
  • Itching of the face
  • Redness and swelling of the corner of the forehead (ST-8 Touwei)
  • Heavy head
  • One-sided headache
  • Inability to sleep
  • Vomiting and drooling
  • Pain of the chest and lateral costal region
  • Dyspnea

COMBINATIONS:

GB-13
Benshen

GB-20
Fengchi
M-HN-9
Taiyang
SJ-5
Waiguan
GB-21
Jianjing

Pain of the lateral costal region with inability to turn the body

One-sided headache

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • According to several classical tests bleeding this point is contraindicated.

NOTES:

  • This is a major point for tetany.