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TOUWEI
ST-8

Bladder
Heads
Binding
Kidney
Meeting
point of the Stomach and Gall Bladder
Pericardium

Touwei ST-8

channels
with the Yang Linking vessel
Sanjiao
Taiyang

Shaoyang

Yangming

0.5 cun

Gall Bladder

LOCATION

Liver
At the
corner of the forehead, 4.5 cun lateral to Shenting
Conception
DU-24
and 0.5 cun within the anterior hairline.
Governing
Extra Touwei
Points ST-8
Shenting DU-24
Taiyin

Shaoyin

Jueyin

0.5 cun

ACTIONS

Eliminates wind and alleviates pain

Benefits the eyes
INDICATIONS

4.5 cun

Headache, splitting headache with chills and fever,

dizziness, vomiting.
Dimness of vision, bursting eye pain, lacrimation on
exposure to wind, twitching of the eyelids.
Dyspnoea with agitation and oppression, hemiplegia.

LOCATION NOTE

There are three methods to locate this point: i. Find the

meeting point of a horizontal line drawn 0.5 cun within
the anterior hairline, and a vertical line drawn 0.5 cun
posterior to the hairline of the temple; ii. Locate Toulinqi
GB-15 which lies directly above the pupil when the patient is looking directly forwards, and Shenting DU-24
which lies on the midline, 0.5 cun posterior to the anterior
hairline. Touwei ST-8 lies on the continuation of a line
drawn between these two points and twice its distance; iii.
0.5 cun superior to the upper line of origin of the temporalis
muscle, 0.5 cun posterior to a vertical line drawn directly
above Taiyang (M-HN-9).
NEEDLING

Transverse insertion 0.5 to 1 cun. Note: according to

several classical texts, this point is contraindicated to
moxibustion.

COMMENTARY

Touwei ST-8 is an important point to treat headaches.

Located at the corner of the forehead, it is a meeting point
of the Stomach channel with the Gall Bladder channel and
the Yang Linking vessel. This meeting of three channels
which have such influence on the head is reflected in the
name of this point Heads Binding. The Stomach channel
belongs to yangming which rules the forehead, the Gall
Bladder channel belongs to shaoyang which rules the
temporal region, whilst the Yang Linking vessel links all
the yang channels of the body including the Governing
vessel and the Bladder channel which rule the vertex.
Whilst the forte of Touwei ST-8 is the treatment of frontal
headaches, with different needle direction it may also be
used for temporal and vertex headaches.
Touwei ST-8 is particularly indicated in headaches and
eye disorders due to wind, whether exterior pathogenic
wind invading the channels of the head, or internally
generated wind. As far as exterior headaches are con-

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cerned, although it is suitable for both wind-cold and
Bladder many classics stress its use in the treatment of
wind-heat,
Kidneyheadaches with bursting eye pain, symptoms
splitting
more
usually associated with wind-heat. Heat is a yang
Pericardium
pathogen
Sanjiaoand its nature is to flare upwards and expand,
obstructing the collaterals and leading to a distending and
Gall Bladder
splitting sensation of the head. In the treatment of headLiver
ache
accompanied by pain or twitching of the eyes, Touwei
Conception
ST-8
is frequently combined in classical prescriptions
with
Zanzhu BL-2. Touwei ST-8 is also indicated for seGoverning
vereExtra
headache
Pointsaccompanied by vomiting, and is especially
suitable for migraine headache with nausea or vomiting
and dimness of vision or bursting pain of the eyes. The
ability of Touwei ST-8 to clear internally generated wind
from the head is reflected not only in its use for this kind
of headache, but also for dizziness and hemiplegia.
COMBINATIONS

Headache with eye pain: Touwei ST-8 and Zanzhu

BL-2 (Ode of the Jade Dragon).
Head wind with splitting pain, bursting pain of the
eyes and lacrimation: Touwei ST-8 and Zanzhu BL-2
(Golden Mirror).
Pain between the eyebrows: Touwei ST-8 and
Zanzhu BL-2 (Song of the Jade Dragon)
Twitching of the eyelids: Touwei ST-8 and Zanzhu
BL-2 (Great Compendium).
Splitting headache with bursting eye pain: Touwei
ST-8 and Daling P-7 (Thousand Ducat Formulas).
One-sided or generalised head wind: Touwei ST-8,
Baihui DU-20, Qianding DU-21, Shangxing DU-23,
Shenting DU-24, Sizhukong SJ-23, Fengchi GB-20,
Hegu L.I.-4 and Zanzhu BL-2 (Great Compendium).
Lacrimation on exposure to wind: Touwei ST-8,
Jingming BL-1, Fengchi GB-20 and Toulinqi GB-15
(Great Compendium).