Stomach Meridian

Front 1

Stomach Channel/Meridian is called:

Back 1

Foot Yang Ming

Front 2

The element of this channel is:

Back 2

Earth

Front 3

Stomach Point 1

Back 3

Receiving Tears
Location: With the eyes looking straight forward, the point is directly below the pupil, between the eyeball and infraorbital ridge.
Puncture: push eyeball upward with the left thumb and puncture slowly .5"-1.0" perp

Front 4

Stomach Point 2

Back 4

Four Directions of Brightness
Location: Directly below the pupil in the depression at the infraorbital foramen.

Front 5

Stomach Point 3

Back 5

Great Bone Hole
Location: Directly below the pupil, at the level of the lower border of ala nasi, on the lateral side of the nasolabial groove

Front 6

Stomach Point 4

Back 6

Earth Granary
Location: Lateral to the corner of the mouth, directly below the pupil.
Puncture: subcutaneously toward ST6

**Helps with Bell's Palsy due to being close to the masseter muscle**

Front 7

Stomach Point 5

Back 7

Great Reception
Location: Anterior angle of the mandible, on the anterior border of the attached portion of the masseter muscle where pulsation of the facial artery is palpable, in the groove-like depression appearing when the cheek is bulged.
Puncture: oblique towards ST6

**Helps with Bell's Palsy due to being close to the masseter muscle**

Front 8

Stomach Point 6

Back 8

Cheek Vehicle
Location: One finger breadth anterior and superior to the lower angle of the mandible where masseter muscle is prominent when the teeth are clenched, and depressive when is it pressed.
Puncture: subcutaneously towards ST4

**Helps with Bell's Palsy due to being close to the masseter muscle**

Front 9

Stomach Point 7

Back 9

Lower Pass
Location: On the face, anterior to the ear, in the depression between the zygomatic arch and the mandibular notch. This point is located when the mouth is closed.

**This point helps with TMJ**

Front 10

Stomach Point 8

Back 10

Head Corner/Angle
Location: On the lateral side of the head, 0.5 cun above the anterior hairline at the corner of the forehead and 4.5 cun lateral to the midline of the head.

**Used for headaches from either external wind or internal wind**

Front 11

Stomach Point 9

Back 11

Man's Prognosis
Location: Level with the tip of the Adam's apple where the pulsation of the common carotid artery is palpable, on the anterior border of the sternocleidomastiodeus.
Puncture: **Avoid carotid artery**

**Used to lower blood pressure:
ST9 + LI11 + Er Jian + GB20**
*Contraindicated with low blood pressure*

Front 12

Stomach Point 10

Back 12

Water Prominence
Location: At the midpoint of the line joining ST9 and ST11, on the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoideus
Puncture: **Avoid carotid artery**

Front 13

Stomach Point 11

Back 13

Qi Abode
Location: At the superior border of the sternal extremity of the clavicle, between the sternal head and clavicular head of the sternocleidomastoideus.

Front 14

Stomach Point 12

Back 14

Empty Basin
Location: In the midpoint of the supraclavicular fossa. 4 cun lateral to the anterior midline.