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GB12

Wangu

Star

完骨 (Wángǔ) — Completion Bone

Gallbladder channel · point 12

Not yet clinically reviewed

Meeting point of the Gallbladder and Bladder channels

Traditionally used for

  • Headaches
  • Ears & hearing
  • Teeth & mouth
  • Cough & breathing
  • Sleep
  • Mood & calm
  • Nerves & recovery
  • Pain & joints

Location

On the head, in the depression posterior and inferior to the mastoid process.

How to locate: Feel the cone-shaped mastoid process behind the ear and follow it down to its tip; the point is in the depression just behind and below it, further back than TE17.

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

Body map, front: GB12 · Crown & occiput
Fig. — GB12 · Crown & occiput After Albinus, 1747
Body map, front: GB12 · Crown & occiput

GB12 · Crown & occiput · Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum, 1747

Side view of the skull — Gray's Anatomy plate
Side view of the skull Gray's Anatomy, 1918
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 can't be carried onto the 3D model reliably (it failed a placement check). The 2D maps above show it.

Needling

Cited needling

  1. Oblique insertion — inferior
    Depth 0.5–1 cun
    skindeeper

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)
  1. Deadman P, Al-Khafaji M, Baker K. A Manual of Acupuncture. Hove: Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications; 1998 — p. 430 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.5–0.8 cun
Angle: Oblique, directed posteriorly and inferiorly
⚠ Cautions: Do not angle medially toward the skull base.

Functions

  • Expels wind and benefits the head and neck
  • Clears heat and resolves damp and phlegm
  • Benefits the ears
  • Calms the spirit and aids sleep

Indications

Insomniaheadache and stiff neckfacial paralysistoothache and swelling of the cheektinnitusepilepsy

Similar Points

Wangu how are these connected? (Wangu)

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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