GB-15, Tóu Lín qì, 头临泣, Head Governor of Tears

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Meeting point of GB, BL, & Yang Wei
Location
Directly above GB-14, 0.5 cun within the anterior hairline, midway between DU-24 and ST-8.
Needling
Type: Transverse    Depth:  0.5 to 0.8 cun
Description: Transverse insertion 0.5-1.5 cun
Caution:
Notes
Energetics 1
Dispel wind: nasal congestion, headache in the forehead or occiput area, eye pain in the supraorbital ridges area or the outer canthus, lacrimation, red eyes, dizziness
Energetics 2
Nasal congestion, nasal congestion with aversion to cold. Headache, head wind, visual dizziness, pain of the occiput and forehead, pain of the supraorbital ridge. Redness and pain of the eyes, superficial visual obstruction, lacrimation on exposure to wind, pain at the outer canthus. Windstroke, epilepsy, loss of consciousness, malaria, pain of the supraclavicular fossa, swelling of the axilla.[36]
Energetics 3
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