Name
天柱
- Tian Zhu
- Celestial Pillar
- Pillar of Heaven
Location
1.3 CUN lateral to GV-15. It is found on the outer border of the trapezius, but on the trapezius, about 0.5 CUN above the hairline. It is slightly more medial and below GB-20.
Nature
- Crossing Point of the Bladder main Channel with the Kidney Divergent Channel and the Bladder Divergent Channel
- Window of Heaven Point
Functions
- Eliminates Internal and External Wind. Headache, stiffness, pain and tension in the neck, dizziness.
- Local point for back pain, shoulder, torticollis, stiff neck, cervicalgia
- Prevent colds (people prone to catching colds)
- Arterial hypertension (HTN)
- Brightens the vision
Comments
- Loss of smell, nose
- Heaviness of the head
- As if the eye were bulging out
- As if the vertex area were being pulled upward
Treatment
- Puncture: 0.2 – 0.3 CUN perpendicular, deeper, puncture toward the nose
- Massage
- Moxa