EX-HN12

Jinjin

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金津 (Jīnjīn) — Golden Fluid

Extra point · Extra (Head and Neck) · point EX-HN12

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Teeth & mouth
Digestion

Location

On the underside of the tongue, on the vein to the left of the frenulum.

How to locate: Ask the patient to curl the tongue upward to expose the veins on its underside; the point is on the vein to the left of the frenulum.

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

Body map, front: EX-HN12 · Head & face — Fig. — EX-HN12 · Head & face After Albinus, 1747

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

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Needling

Depth: 0.1–0.2 cun

Angle: Prick to bleed

Functions

Clears heat and generates fluids
Expels wind
Benefits the tongue

Indications

Swelling and pain of the tonguemouth ulcersdiabetes with thirstvomitingaphasia after stroke

Clinical Notes

Paired with Yuye on the right; the two are usually bled together.

Similar Points

Yuye how are these connected?

Sources

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

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