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POINT: ST-8 (STOMACH-8)  

NAME: TOUWEI

English: Head's Binding
Also Known As: Head Support
Skull's Safeguard

LOCATION:

  • On the lateral side of the head, 0.5 cun above the anterior hairline at the corner of the forehead and 4.5 cun lateral to the midline of the head.
  • At the angle of the forehead, 4.5 cun lateral to the median line of the head at the hairline.
  • At the angle of the forehead, 4.5 cun lateral to the median line of the head at the coronal suture.
  • At the corner of the forehead, 4.5 cun lateral to DU-24 Shenting and 0.5 cun within the hairline.
    Note: there ar three ways to locate this point: 1. find the meeting point of a horizontal line drawn 0.5 cun within the anterior hairline , and a vertical line drawn 0.5 cun posterior to the hairline of the temple; 2. locate GB-15 Toulinqi which lies directly above the pupil when the patient is looking directly forward, and DU-24 Shenting which lies on the midline, 0.5 cun posterior to the anterior hairline. This point lies on the continuation of a line drawn between these two points and twice its distance; 3. 0.5 cun superior to the upper line of the origin of the temporalis muscle, 0.5 cun posterior to a vertical line drawn directly above M-HN-9 Taiyang.

NEEDLING:

  • Puncture subcutaneously 0.5 to 1 cun.
  • Transverse insertion front to back, 0.8 to 1.5 cun. Sensation: pain and distention extending outward from the point of insertion.
  • Transverse insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.

COMMAND FUNCTIONS:

  • Point of the Yang Wei vessel
  • Meeting point of the Stomach and Gall Bladder

ACTIONS:

  • Expels Wind
  • Relieves pain
  • Brightens the eyes
  • Clears Heat
  • Stops lachrymation
  • Relieves dizziness

INDICATIONS:

  • Dizziness due to Phlegm
  • A feeling of cloudiness or heaviness of the head
  • Frontal headache due to Dampness or Phlegm
  • Eye problems
  • Excessive lachrymation due to Wind-Heat
  • Migraine
  • Psychosis
  • Facial paralysis
  • Splitting headache with chills and fever
  • Dimness of vision
  • Bursting eye pain
  • Headache
  • Blurred vision
  • Ophthalmalgia
  • Cerebral congestion
  • Vertigo
  • Facial pain
  • Eyelid spasms
  • Sore eyes with excessive tearing
  • Wheezing with irritability and fullness in the chest
  • Vomiting
  • Dyspnea with agitation and oppression
  • Hemiplegia

COMBINATIONS:

LI-4 joined to SI-3
Hegu joined to Houxi
LIV-3 joined to KI-1
Taichong joined to Yongquan

LU-7
Lieque

GB-14
Yangbai
SJ-17
Yifeng
ST-4
Dicang
LI-20
Yingxiang

Psychosis

Migraine headaches

Facial paralysis

UB-2
Zanzhu

PC-7
Daling

DU-20
Baihui
DU-21
Qianding
DU-23
Shangxing
DU-24
Shenting
SJ-23
Sizhukong
GB-20
Fengchi
LI-4
Hegu
UB-2
Zanzhu

Eye tics

Headache with eye pain

Head Wind with splitting pain

Bursting pain of the eyes

Lachrymation

Pain between the eyebrows

Splitting headache with bursting eye pain

Onesided or generalized head Wind

UB-1
Jingming
GB-20
Fengchi
GB-15
Toulinqi

 

 

Lachrymation on exposure to Wind

 

 

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

  • Use moxibustion with caution.
  • Ancient texts prohibit moxibustion.

NOTES:

  • This is a major local point for dizziness due to Dampness and Phlegm in the head.
  • It is also an important point to treat headaches.