GB1

Tongziliao

Star

瞳子髎 (Tóngzǐliáo) — Pupil Bone-Hole

Gallbladder channel · point 1

Not yet clinically reviewed

Meeting point of the Gallbladder, Small Intestine and Triple Energiser channels

Traditionally used for

Headaches
Eye health
Nerves & recovery

Location

On the face, 0.5 cun lateral to the outer canthus, in the depression on the lateral border of the orbit.

How to locate: From the outer canthus slide about 0.5 cun laterally onto the lateral rim of the orbit, where the finger meets a bony depression; the point is there, below TE23.

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

Body map, front: GB1 · Head & face — Fig. — GB1 · 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

Cited needling

Techniques — the source gives these as alternatives:

Transverse insertion — posteriorly

Depth 0.2–0.3 cun

skindeeper
Through-needling — extended to connect with Taiyang (M-HN-9)

Depths describe average adult habitus in the cited population, never a single safe number for the patient in front of you. Palpate and adjust.

Sources (1)

Deadman P, Al-Khafaji M, Baker K. A Manual of Acupuncture. Hove: Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications; 1998 — p. 422 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun

Angle: Transverse, directed laterally or toward the eye

Functions

Expels wind and clears heat from the eyes
Relieves temporal headache

Indications

Red, painful and swollen eyesexcessive tearing and blurred visionearly cataracttemporal headache and migrainefacial paralysistrigeminal neuralgia

Sources

World Health Organization. WHO Standard Acupuncture Point Locations in the Western Pacific Region. Manila: WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2008. (Location.)
Focks C, ed. Atlas of Acupuncture. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2008. (Locating method and actions.)

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