Neck Points

Here are some points around the neck for helping to aid in the healing of the tendons and muscles in the neck area. The pressure should be firm, but not too deep. Your goal is to bring attention to the area by stimulating the points. Hold each point for a moment. There's really no set time. Just use your intuition and pain/pleasure threshold.

Also, in the descriptions on how to find the points. A measurement is used that you may be unfamiliar with. It's called a "cun". One cun is equal to the width of "your" thumb. For each person, "their" thumb would be the measure, because everyone is different.

Point location and what they do:

Governing Vessel 16- Located in the depression inferior to the occipital ridge. Good for: Headache, stiff neck, apoplexy (?), bloody nose, cold symptoms, cervical vertebral disorders.

Urinary Bladder 10- Located one and a half cun lateral to the body's midline, and one and a half cun inferior to the occipital ridge. Headache, serious neck, shoulder or back pain, nasal obstruction, cervical vertebral disorders, insomnia.

Gall Bladder 20- In a depression inferior to the occipital ridge, at the sternocleidomastoid muscle's point of origin. Headache, neck pain and stiffness, eye pain and redness, near sightedness, cold symptoms, blurred vision, hypertension, cervical vertebral disorders.

Triple Warmer 16- Posterior to sternocleidomastoid, level with the angle of the mandible. Cervical vertebral disorders, deafness, and ringing in the ear, eye disorders, pharynx disorders.

Governing Vessel 14- Located inferior to the seventh cervical vertebrae. Stiff neck, dizziness, vomiting, cold symptoms, cervical vertebral disorders.

Gall Bladder 21- A depression midway on top of shoulder. Hypertension, shoulder or back pain, headache, neck pain and stiffness, inflamed breast, uterine bleeding, thyroid disorders, do not work on during pregnancy unless specifically inducing labor.