EX-HN10

Juquan

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聚泉 (Jùquán) — Gathered Spring

Extra point · Extra (Head and Neck) · point EX-HN10

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Cough & breathing

Location

On the dorsum of the tongue, at the midpoint of the median line of the tongue.

How to locate: Ask the patient to extend the tongue as far as possible; the point is at the centre of its upper surface, on the median line.

Distances are in cun, a proportional unit — how to measure.

Body map, front: EX-HN10 · Head & face — Fig. — EX-HN10 · Head & face After Albinus, 1747

The skull, from the front — Gray's Anatomy plate — The skull, from the front Gray's Anatomy, 1918

3D view

3D view not available for this point: its position can't be carried onto the 3D model reliably (it failed a placement check). The 2D maps above show it.

Needling

Depth: 0.1–0.2 cun

Angle: Shallow perpendicular, or prick to bleed

⚠ Cautions: An intra-oral point — observe strict hygiene.

Functions

Benefits the tongue and resolves phlegm
Clears heat

Indications

Stiffness or deviation of the tongueloss of tasteasthma and coughdiabetes with thirst

Similar Points

Yongquan how are these connected?

Sources

Focks C, ed. Atlas of Acupuncture. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2008. (Locating method and actions.)

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