Name
頰車
- Jia Che
- Vehicle of the Teeth
- Vehicle of Dispersion
- Vehicle of Mastication
Location
On the masseter muscle. The most prominent point when you clench your teeth, approximately 1 CUN medial and superior to the angle of the mandible.
Nature
- It is one of the Ghost Points Gui Chuang 鬼床 The Ghost's Bed
Actions
- Pain in the lower molars, sometimes also for the upper ones
- Gum inflammation
- Sternocleidomastoid tension: difficulty turning the neck, torticollis
- Trigeminal Neuralgia (Bright Yang problem): with LI-1
- Bruxism
- Eliminate Wind
- Mania, Epilepsy, Wind-stroke. Relaxes the Jaw, both during a Wind-stroke and after Convulsions.
- For gluttony. To regulate appetite.
Treatment
- Needling: 0.4 CUN perpendicular or oblique towards ST-4