ACUPUNCTURE
Han Yan: TCM Acupoint Guide
HANYAN
Name
Han Yan (Hanyan)
Location
Within the hairline of the temporal region, one fourth the distance from ST-8 Touwei to GB-7 Qubin.
Needling
- Slanted insertion, 1 to 1.5 cun.
- Note: this point may be needled in any direction. Direction depends on the symptomatology. Direct the needle towards the point of pain, or join to other head points.
- Transverse insertion, 0.5 to 1.5 cun.
Command Functions
- Meeting point of the San Jiao and Stomach channels
Actions
- Eliminates wind
- Clears heat
- Activates the channel
- Alleviates pain
Indications
- Migraine headache
- Tinnitus
- Seizures
- Convulsions
- One-sided headache
- Head wind with pain at bilateral taiyang
- Redness of the outer canthus
- Earache
- Neck pain
- Wrist pain
- Inability to flex the wrist
- Vertigo
- Pain in the outer canthus
- Toothache
- Epilepsy
- Headache with heat in the body
- Visual dizziness
- Clonic spasm
- Lockjaw
- Deviation of the mouth and eye
- Sneezing
- Joint wind with sweating
Notes
Generally this point is only needled if tender.
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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