文档介绍：JOURNAL OF CHINESE MEDICINE NUMBER 56 JANUARY 1998
SOME ACUPUNCTURE POINTS
WHICH TREAT HEADACHE
by Peter Deadman and Mazin Al-Khafaji with Kevin Baker
Touwei ST-8
This article is not intended to be prehensive discus-
sion of either the differentiation or treatment of headache.
Such material is well covered in previous issues of this
Journal1 and in many acupuncture textbooks. Rather it is
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intended as a discussion of some of the more important
acupuncture points traditionally used to treat headache,
and the rationale for their selection and range of action.
Many are points that would monly selected by
acupuncturists today. One or two have clearly been consid-
ered more important in past times, as evidenced by material
found in classical sources, but are less used in modern
clinical practice. By contrast, some distal points mon
use today for the treatment of headache were barely indi- cun
cated for such use previously, Xingjian LIV-2 and Taichong
LIV-3 being typical examples.
In considering the treatment of headache in classical
texts, it is important to be familiar with monly-used
term ‘head wind’. This traditional term has two principal
meanings. Firstly it is used to refer to severe, long-standing
and repetitive headaches (for example migraine), in con-
trast to a single incident of headache. Secondly, it describes ing of three channels which have such influence on the head
a condition deriving from attack by exterior wind, whether is reflected in the name of this point ‘Head’s Binding’. The
combined with cold, heat or dampness, which invades the Stomach channel belongs to yangming which rules the
channels of the head and gives rise to headache, dizziness forehead, the Gall Bladder channel belongs to shaoyang
and deviation of the mouth and eye. which rules the temporal region, whilst the Yang Linking
The indications listed below are almost entirely derived vessel links all the yang channels of the body including the