EX-HN15

Jingbailao

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頸百勞 (Jǐngbǎiláo) — Hundred Taxations of the Neck

Extra point · Extra (Head and Neck) · point EX-HN15

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

Cough & breathing
Colds & fever
Pain & joints

Location

On the nape, 2 cun above GV14, 1 cun lateral to the posterior midline.

How to locate: With the head slightly flexed, find the spinous process of C7 at the base of the neck and GV14 below it; measure 2 cun up the midline from GV14, then 1 cun laterally.

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

Body map, back: EX-HN15 · Nape of neck — Fig. — EX-HN15 · Nape of neck After Albinus, 1747

The vertebral column — Gray's Anatomy plate — The vertebral column Gray's Anatomy, 1918

3D view

Approximate placement, carried over from our 2D body map onto a single adult male model (BodyParts3D) and checked against the point's location text. Shown on one side of the body. Locate the point on your patient by the location text and palpation, not by this model.

Cun on this part of the body: Between the bilateral mastoid processes: 9 B-cun (WHO 2008, General Guidelines, Proportional Bone (Skeletal) Measurements, p. 12).
Needle angle and depth: Needling not assessed: no cited needling data for this point.

3D anatomy: BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International (licence). Subset, simplified and recoloured by Verscienta — changes and licence details.

Needling

Depth: 0.5–1.0 cun

Angle: Oblique, directed medially

Functions

Nourishes yin and clears deficiency heat
Expels wind-damp
Opens the channel and relieves neck stiffness
Stops cough

Indications

Night sweats and afternoon feverchronic cough and pulmonary tuberculosisstiff neck and torticollisscrofulawhooping cough

Sources

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

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