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POINT: SJ-23

NAME: SIZHUKONG

English: Silken Bamboo Hollow
Also Known As: Silken Bamboo Hole
Silk Bamboo Hole
Tiny Bamboo Hole

LOCATION:

  • Located in the depression lateral to the corner of the eyebrow.
  • In the depression on the supraorbital margin, at the lateral end of the eyebrow.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture subcutaneously 0.3 to 0.5 cun.
  • Transverse insertion, medially along the eyebrow or posteriorly, 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Transverse insertion, directed either posteriorly or toward Yuyao M-HN-6, 0.5 to 1 cun. Sensation: local distention.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

ACTIONS:

  • Eliminates Wind
  • Alleviates pain
  • Benefits the eyes
  • Clears Fire from the head
  • Lowers fever

INDICATIONS:

  • All eye disorders
  • Optic nerve atrophy
  • Blurred vision
  • Color blindness
  • Redness and pain of the eye
  • Twitching of the eyelid
  • Toothache
  • One-sided headache
  • Head Wind
  • Aversion to Wind and Cold
  • Dizziness
  • Visual dizziness
  • Tetany
  • Epilepsy with foaming at the mouth
  • Periodic mania with foaming at the mouth
  • Lateral and midline headaches
  • Hemicrania
  • Nervous headache
  • Intolerable migraine
  • Vision dazzling
  • Hazy vision
  • White membrane on the conjunctiva
  • Keratoleukoma
  • Depressive psychosis
  • Insanity
  • Madness
  • Inability to raise the outer corner of the eye
  • Dental caries
  • Seizures
  • Hysteria with vision loss
  • Facial paralysis
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Headache
  • Dizziness
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Pain in the submandibular region
  • Childhood umbilical Wind (infection of the umbilicus in the newborn, giving rise to convulsions, lockjaw and opisthotonis)
  • Upward staring eyes
  • Deviation of the face and eyes
  • Twitching of the eyebrows
  • Ingrown eyelash
  • Eye inflammation
  • Inflammation of the eyeballs
  • Inflammation and congestion of the eyes
  • Congestion of the eyeball
  • Trachoma
  • Leukoma
  • Vertigo
  • epilepsy with the eyes rolled back
  • Infantile convulsions
  • Vomiting of mucoid sputum
  • Dermatosis of the ears
  • Deafness
  • Stiffness of the lips

COMBINATIONS:

GB-8
Shuaigu

GB-20
Fengchi
LI-4
Hegu

DU-20
Baihui
DU-21
Qianding
DU-24
Shenting
DU-23
Shangxing
GB-20
Fengchi
LI-4
Hegu
UB-2
Zanzhu
ST-8
Touwei

One-sided or generalized Wind headache that is difficult to cure

One-sided or generalized headache

One-sided or generalized head Wind

SJ-22
Erheliao
SJ-18
Qimai
UB-2
Zanzhu
UB-6
Chengguang
UB-23
Shenshu

UB-60
Kunlun
DU-20
Baihui

SJ-21
Ermen

Wind headache

Wind epilepsy with upward staring eyes

Toothache

SJ-3
Zhongzhu
GB-20
Fengchi

UB-2
Zanzhu
ST-2
Sibai
ST-4
Dicang

UB-2
Zanzhu

Migraine headache

Facial paralysis

Red, swollen eyes

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • Use moxibustion with caution.
  • According to several classical texts, moxibustion is forbidden on this point.

NOTES:

  • This is an important local point for the treatment of headache and disorders of the eye, eyelid and eyebrow.
  • This point may be bled.
  • This point has a hollow sound when tapped.