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GV25

Suliao

Star

素髎 (Sùliáo) — White Bone-Hole

Du (Governing) channel · point 25

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

  • Nose & throat
  • Blood pressure

Location

On the face, at the centre of the tip of the nose.

How to locate: At the tip of the nose, where a slight depression can usually be felt on palpation.

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

Body map, front: GV25 · Head & face
Fig. — GV25 · Head & face After Albinus, 1747
Body map, front: GV25 · Head & face

GV25 · 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
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

Cited needling

Techniques — the source gives these as alternatives:

  1. Perpendicular insertion
    Depth 0.2–0.3 cun
    skindeeper
  2. Transverse insertion — directed superiorly
    Depth 0.5–1 cun
    skindeeper
  3. Prick to bleed

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. 558 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.2–0.3 cun
Angle: Oblique, directed superiorly, or prick to bleed

Functions

  • Restores consciousness and raises yang
  • Opens the nasal passages

Indications

Loss of consciousness, shock and collapselow blood pressurenasal congestion, rhinitis and nosebleedrosacea and redness of the nose

Clinical Notes

A resuscitation point used in shock and hypotension; in modern Chinese hospital practice it has been used alongside GV26 in collapse.

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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