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TE23

Sizhukong

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絲竹空 (Sīzhúkōng) — Silk Bamboo Hollow

Triple Energiser channel · point 23

Not yet clinically reviewed

Traditionally used for

  • Headaches
  • Dizziness
  • Eye health
  • Teeth & mouth
  • Nerves & recovery
  • Skin

Cautions & contraindications

  • No moxibustion

Location

On the face, in the depression at the lateral end of the eyebrow.

How to locate: From the outer canthus, run a finger up along the bony rim of the orbit until it drops into the tender depression at the lateral end of the eyebrow (over the frontozygomatic suture); the point is there, above GB1.

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

Body map, front: TE23 · Head & face
Fig. — TE23 · Head & face After Albinus, 1747
Body map, front: TE23 · Head & face

TE23 · 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

  1. Transverse insertion — medially along the eyebrow or posteriorly
    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. 412 Supports: techniques (names this point)

Site notes · not cited

  • No moxibustion
Depth: 0.3–0.5 cun
Angle: Transverse, threaded medially or laterally
⚠ Cautions: Moxibustion is classically contraindicated here.

Functions

  • Expels wind and clears heat from the head and eyes
  • Relieves temporal headache

Indications

Temporal headache and migrainered, painful and swollen eyestwitching of the eyeliddizzinessfacial paralysistoothache

Clinical Notes

Often threaded toward Taiyang for migraine, or medially toward Yuyao for supraorbital pain.

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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