Touwei (8E)

Crossing point between the stomach meridian, the Gallbladder meridian and the yangweimai which is the meridian governing the entire surface of the body.

Location of Touwei

Of Xiaguan, I continue to rise vertically, towards the skull, to the level of the junction between verticality and the junction of the skull. Touwei is approximately 0.5 cun behind the hairline.

Also this point is located on the suture between the frontal bone and the parietal bone, we feel a kind of small depression.

Therapeutic functions and clinical indications

• Frontal headaches, yangming (stomach), temporal headaches, shaoyang (point of crossing with the Gallbladder), headaches attacks of wind-cold, wind-heat (works well because point of crossing with the yangweimai);
• Eye problems: inflammation, pain, conjunctivitis, ophthalmic migraine.