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Heart
S. Intestine
FUBAI GB-10 • Pain of the shoulder and arm, inability to raise the
Bladder
Floating White arm, flaccidity of the legs with inability to walk.
Kidney
Meeting point of the Gall Bladder
Pericardium COMMENTARY
and Bladder
Sanjiaochannels The points Fubai GB-10, Touqiaoyin GB-11 and to a
certain extent Tianchong GB-9, have certain comparable
Gall Bladder
LOCATION indications and these are not dissimilar to the indications
Liver to the ear, along a curved line drawn from
Posterior for the points of the Window of Heaven (see The Points of
Conception
Tianchong GB-9 to Wangu GB-12 running within the the Window of Heaven). All are indicated for goitre, and
hairline and more or less parallel to the line of the rim of
Governing Fubai GB-10 additionally for stiffness, swelling and pain
the ear, in Points
Extra a depression about one third of the distance of the neck. Both Fubai GB-10 (headache, toothache, deaf-
between Tianchong GB-9 and Wangu GB-12. ness and tinnitus) and Touqiaoyin GB-11 (headache and
eye, ear, tongue and mouth disorders) are indicated for
Fubai GB-10 disorders of the head and sense organs and for rebellion
Tianchong GB-9 of Lung qi characterised by cough. Both also treat disor-
ders of the lower body, Fubai GB-10 for flaccidity of the
Shuaigu GB-8
legs with inability to walk, and Touqiaoyin GB-11 for
contraction of the sinews of the four limbs, bone con-
sumption, and agitation and heat of the hands and feet.
This latter application reflects the principle expounded in
the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic1 “When the disease is
below select [points] from above”.

COMBINATIONS
• Toothache and tooth decay: Fubai GB-10 and Wangu
GB-12 (Systematic Classic).

Wangu GB-12
Touqiaoyin GB-11

NEEDLING
Transverse insertion 0.5-1.5 cun. See note Hanyan GB-4.

ACTIONS
Clears the head and benefits the neck region
Activates the channel and alleviates pain

INDICATIONS
• Headache, heaviness of the head, chills and fever,
toothache, deafness, tinnitus.
• Stiffness and pain of the neck, goitre, swelling and
pain of the neck, throat painful obstruction.
• Fullness of the chest with dyspnoea, chest pain,
cough with expectoration of phlegm and foam.