Meaning

"Close and open bloodletting."

Localization

On the dorsal aspect of the ring finger, at the junction of lines drawn along the ulnar border of the nail and the base of the nail, approximately 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail.

Functions

Cleans heat, opens the holes of heart, promotes the language.

Indications

- Channel diseases: pain in shoulder and shoulder joint.
- 5 holes diseases: tinnitus, deafness, chronic and acute stage of ear disease, rigid tongue, cracks in the tongue, dry lips, dry mouth, lethargy of the tongue (emptiness of spleen Qi), mumps, swollen mucosa pain in the throat with symptoms of heat, the initial presentation of cataracts, walleye, eye redness with pain.
- Disorders of the mind: incipient closed stroke, heat stroke, apoplexy, loss of consciousness, shock.
- Digestive system: malnutrition, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, food stagnation with heat appearance, dyspepsia in children.
- Features: diseases with properties of heat, high fever.

Needling Method

Puncture perpendicularly 0.1 cun. Triangular needle to let some blood. Cauterization.