Korean Journal of Acupuncture

Society for Meridian and Acupoint (경락경혈학회)
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Review on the change of acupuncture point location of gallbladder meridian in head

담경(膽經)의 두경부(頭頸部) 혈위(穴位) 변천(變遷)에 대한 문헌적(文獻的) 고찰(考察)

  • An, Young-Sang (Dept. of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Yang, Ki-Young (Dept. of Acupuncture & Moxibution, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Lee, Byung-Ryul (Dept. of Acupuncture & Moxibution, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Yim, Yun-Kyoung (Dept. of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University)
  • 안영상 (대전대학교 한의과대학 경락경혈학교실) ;
  • 양기영 (대전대학교 한의과대학 침구학교실) ;
  • 이병렬 (대전대학교 한의과대학 침구학교실) ;
  • 임윤경 (대전대학교 한의과대학 경락경혈학교실)
  • Published : 2008.12.27
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Abstract

Objectives and Methods : The present study was to investigate the change of acupuncture point location of gallbladder meridian in head by way of reviewing classical literatures. Result and Conclusions : 1. The locations of acupuncture points closed-by anatomical marks such as GB1, GB2, GB3, GB11, GB12, GB19, GB20 are clear and accurate. 2. The expression of acupuncture points' locations of GB4, GB5, GB6, GB8 and GB10 are obscure in classical literature, but their locations became clear and objective in recent literatures. 3. The locations of GB9 and GB13 are open to dispute but WHO standard acupuncture point seems to be resonable. 4. In classical literature, the length from the midpoint of the anterior hairline to the midpoint of the posterior hairline is 12 B-cun, and the length from the midpoint of the anterior hairline to the GB19 is 5 cun, 5.5 cun or 6.5 cun. We presume that the length from GB15 to GB19 might have been measured by F-cun.

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