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EX-HN9

Neiyingxiang

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內迎香 (Nèiyíngxiāng) — Inner Welcome Fragrance

Extra point · Extra (Head and Neck) · point EX-HN9

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

  • Headaches
  • Dizziness
  • Eye health
  • Nose & throat

Cautions & contraindications

  • Bleeding disorders

Location

Inside the nostril, on the mucous membrane at the junction of the upper and middle thirds of the nasal concha.

Focks' Atlas of Acupuncture places it inside the nasal cavity at the junction of the nasal bone and the nasal cartilage.

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

Body map, front: EX-HN9 · Head & face
Fig. — EX-HN9 · Head & face After Albinus, 1747
Body map, front: EX-HN9 · Head & face

EX-HN9 · Head & face · Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum, 1747

The skull, from the front — Gray's Anatomy plate
The skull, from the front Gray's Anatomy, 1918 Marker hidden while its position on this plate is re-checked.
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 on the 3D model couldn't be checked against its location text, so it is not shown. The 2D maps above show it.

Needling

  • Bleeding disorders
Depth: 0.1 cun
Angle: Prick to bleed
⚠ Cautions: An intranasal point — bled rather than needled, and contraindicated in patients with bleeding disorders or on anticoagulants.

Functions

  • Clears heat and drains fire
  • Opens the nasal passages
  • Benefits the eyes

Indications

Nasal congestion and rhinitisred and painful eyesheadache and dizzinessheatstroke

Sources

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

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