GB10

Fubai

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浮白 (Fúbái) — Floating White

Gallbladder channel · point 10

Not yet clinically reviewed

Meeting point of the Gallbladder and Bladder channels

Traditionally used for

Headaches
Ears & hearing
Teeth & mouth
Pain & joints

Location

On the head, posterior and superior to the mastoid process, on the curved line connecting GB9 and GB12, at the junction of its upper and middle thirds.

How to locate: Trace the curved line from GB9 down behind the ear to GB12 (in the hollow behind and below the mastoid process), running roughly parallel to the back of the auricle; divide it into thirds and the point is at the upper third mark, usually about level with the ear apex.

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

Body map, front: GB10 · Crown & occiput — Fig. — GB10 · Crown & occiput After Albinus, 1747

Side view of the skull — Gray's Anatomy plate — Side view of the skull 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

Cited needling

Transverse insertion

Depth 0.5–1.5 cun

skindeeper

Within the hairline: see the needling note at Hanyan GB4.

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. 429 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun

Angle: Transverse

Functions

Benefits the ears and the head
Expels wind
Activates the luo-connecting vessels
Dissipates nodules

Indications

Tinnitus and deafnessheadache and stiff neckgoitre and scrofulatoothache

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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