Meaning

Bamboo Gathering.

Localization

In the recess at the inner edge of the eyebrow, straight up from the point of Jing ming BL.1( ).

Functions

Benefits the eyes and unblocks channels.

Indications

- Eye disease: decrement in visual acuity, pain with swelling in eyes, swelling and eye redness, frequent winking, night blindness, watery eye, conjunctivitis, glaucoma, crossed eyes.
- Disorders of the mind: psychosis, mania, amnesia, insomnia, epilepsy.
- Features: convulsions and tics in children, hemorrhoids, pain with tension on crown of head (cold in liver channel), sciatica, fear of head wind and cold, rigidity of the muscles of the loin, facial paralysis, neuralgia of the first branch of the trigeminal nerve.

Needling Method

Puncture obliquely down to the point Jing Ming BL.1 or outward along the brows to the point Yu Yao PC.6 0.3-0.5 cun. Cauterization is forbidden.