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ST3

Juliao

Star

巨髎 (Jùliáo) — Great Bone-Hole

Stomach channel · point 3

Not yet clinically reviewed

Meeting point of the Stomach channel with the Yang Qiao Mai

Traditionally used for

  • Eye health
  • Nose & throat
  • Teeth & mouth
  • Nerves & recovery

Location

On the face, directly below the pupil, level with the lower border of the ala nasi.

How to locate: With the patient looking straight ahead, the point is where a vertical line through the centre of the pupil crosses a horizontal line at the lower border of the ala of the nose.

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

Body map, front: ST3 · Head & face
Fig. — ST3 · Head & face After Albinus, 1747
Body map, front: ST3 · Head & face

ST3 · 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 0.3–0.4 cun
    skindeeper
  2. Transverse insertion — to join with such points as Dicang ST4, Quanliao SI18 etc

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. 132 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun
Angle: Oblique or transverse

Functions

  • Expels wind and relieves facial pain
  • Opens the channel and disperses accumulations
  • Opens the nasal passages

Indications

Facial paralysis and facial paintoothache and swelling of the lips and cheeknasal congestion and nosebleedeye disorders

Similar Points

Juliao how are these connected? (Juliao)

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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