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Trigeminal neuralgia
Trigeminal neuralgia is the episodic and repeated brief instances of intense pain in the distribution area of facial trigeminal nerves. The pain usually involves the first, second and third trigeminal nerve on one side, and can be divided into primary and secondary pains. The disease mostly occurs in adults and older in age, and more frequently in women than in men. The disease is mostly one-sided pain and belongs to the category of facial pains in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
GB 14 Yang Bai
(Yang White)
Location
directly above the pupil, 1 cun above the eyebrow
St 2 Si Bai
(Four Whites)
Location
with the patient staring directly ahead, directly below the pupil, in the depression at the infraorbital foramen
SJ 17 Yi Feng
(Wind Screen)
Location
dorsal to the earlobe, in the depression between the mastoid process and the lower jaw
LI 4 He Gu
(Joining Valley)
Location
on the dorsum of the hand, to the side of the midpoint of the second metacarpal bone, in the adductor pollicis muscle