Fu Bai: TCM Acupoint Guide

Name

Fu Bai (GB-10)

Location

Posterior to the ear, along the curved line drawn from GB-9 Tianchong to GB-12 Wangu, running within the hairline and more or less parallel to the rim of the ear, in a depression about one third of the way from GB-9 Tianchong to GB-12 Wangu.

About one cun below and posterior to GB-9 Tianchong, on the superior part of the mastoid process.

Posterior and superior to the mastoid process, at the junction of the middle third and upper third of the curved line connecting GB-9 Tianchong to GB-12 Wangu.

Needling

• Transverse insertion 0.5 to 1.5 cun.
• Oblique insertion 0.5 to 1 cun.
• Puncture subcutaneously 0.3 to 0.5 cun.

Note: this point may be needled in any direction depending on the symptoms. The needle should be inserted deep to the subcutaneous layer, into the loose areolar tissue adjacent to the bone of the skull, rather than shallowly. Moxibustion is applicable.

Command functions

Meeting point of the Urinary Bladder channel.

Actions

• Clears the head
• Benefits the neck region
• Activates the channel
• Alleviates pain

Indications

Head and face

• Headache
• Heaviness of the head
• Chills and fever
• Toothache
• Deafness
• Tinnitus

Neck and shoulder

• Pain of the shoulder and arm
• Inability to raise the arm
• Stiffness and pain of the neck
• Goiter
• Swelling and pain of the neck
• Throat bi

Limbs

• Flaccidity of the legs with inability to walk

Chest and lungs

• Fullness of the chest with dyspnea
• Chest pain
• Cough with expectoration of phlegm and foam
• Bronchitis

Combinations