ACUPUNCTURE
Feng Fu: TCM Acupoint Guide
Name
Feng Fu (Fengfu)
Location
1 cun above the posterior hairline, in the depression inferior to the external occipital protuberance on the posterior midline, between the bilateral origins of the trapezius muscle.
Needling
- Straight insertion, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Caution: avoid deep insertion.
- Perpendicular insertion, slightly inferiorly, 0.5 to 1 cun.
- Caution: the spinal canal lies between 1.5 and 2 cun deep to the skin surface, varying according to body build. Deep perpendicular or superior oblique insertion is strictly contraindicated.
- Puncture perpendicularly 0.5 to 0.8 cun. Deep puncture is not advisable. The medulla oblongata is in the deep layer and special attention should be paid in acupuncture.
Command Functions
- Sea of Marrow point
- Meeting point of the Yangwei channel
- Sun Si-miao Ghost point
- Window of Heaven point
Actions
- Eliminates Wind
- Nourishes the Sea of Marrow
- Benefits the head and neck
- Calms the Shen
Indications
- Seizures
- Mania
- Hemiplegia
- Aphasia due to stroke
- Delirium
- Fear and fright
- Anxiety
- Common cold due to Wind-Cold
- Sensation of heaviness of the head
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Deaf-mutism
- Blurred vision
- Sinusitis
- Epistaxis
- Neck stiffness
- Short memory
- Poverty of thought
- Beriberi
- Fevers
- Jaundice
- Wind Bi
- All types of Wind diseases
- Injury by Wind
- The hundred diseases of the head
- Visual dizziness
- Upward staring eyes
- Sadness and fear with fright palpitations
- Pain in the neck with inability to turn the head
- Visual hallucinations
- Numbness of the limbs
- Mental illness
- Post apoplexy aphasia
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Stiffness of the tongue preventing speech
- Tongue too relaxed to speak
- Sudden mutism
- All disorders of the head
- Neck rigidity
- Paralysis of the nape of the neck
- Rigor of the entire body
- Vertigo
- Hypertension
- Sore throat
- Pharynx and larynx swollen and painful
- Laryngitis
- Psychosis
- Madness due to Shang Han (Wind-Cold)
- Influenza
- Aversion to Cold
- Chills with abundant sweating and a sensation of a heavy body
- Toothache
- Heaviness of the body with aversion to Cold
- Head wind
- Incessant talking
- Difficulty breathing
- Heat in the chest
Combinations
| Points | Indications |
|---|---|
| GB-20 Fengchi | The hundred disorders due to injury by Cold |
| SI-16 Tianchuang, PC-8 Laogong | Throat pain |
| REN-24 Chengjiang | Loss of voice; stiffness of the head and nape with difficult rotation |
| DU-15 Yamen | Windstroke; flaccidity of the tongue; sudden loss of voice |
| GB-20 Fengchi, DU-17 Naohu, UB-9 Yuzhen, DU-23 Shangxing | Pain of the eyes with inability to see |
| LI-2 Erjian, LI-20 Yingxiang | Rhinitis with nosebleed |
| DU-28 Yinjiao | Stiffness and pain of the neck with inability to turn the head |
| UB-60 Kunlun, UB-65 Shugu | Mania; incessant talking without rest |
| UB-13 Feishu | Mad walking with a desire to commit ******* |
| SI-5 Yanggu | Mad walking |
| DU-2 Yaoshu | Numbness of the legs |
Contraindications
Deep needling is contraindicated. Use moxibustion with caution. According to several classical texts, this point is forbidden to moxibustion. For Tai Yang Zhong Feng, initially prescribe Gui Zhi Tang. If this causes agitation, needle DU-16 Fengfu and then GB-20 Fengchi, then re-administer Gui Zhi Tang. Recovery will follow.
Notes
This point is important for treating both Exterior and Interior Wind.
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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