Governing Vessel 20   Bai Hui

Governing Vessel 20 - Bai Hui

“Hundred Meetings” “Hundred Convergences” (refers to major meeting point at vertex)

Horizontal 0.3-0.5” or moxa

General Meeting Point of Yang, Sea of Bone Marrow, Meeting Point of Governing Vessel Bladder, Triple Heater, Gall Bladder and Liver, 7 Dragon Point for External Etiology (with BL 23 and BL 61)

* Clears the Senses and Calms the Spirit - mental disorders, mental retardation, insomnia, seizures, deafness, delirium, extreme nervousness, anxiety, irritability, forgetfulness, frequent weeping, unable to choose words, severe fright, hysteria, neurasthenia, tinnitis, blurred vision, nasal obstruction

* Extinguishes Liver Wind - apoplexy, Penetrating Wind, coma, vertigo, dizziness, apoplexic aphasia, shock, locked jaw, hemiplegia, fainting with trismus, eclampsia, convulsions in children, stiff spine, eye redness and pain

* Stabilizes Ascending Yang - Qi and Blood dizziness, prolapse of rectum, prolapse of vagina, hemorrhoids, prolapsed uterus, headache inside head, vertex headache, heavy head, pain at vertex, hypertension from excess yang in head, menorrhagia, prolapsed stomach, moxa to bring Yang to head

* Clears Obstructions in the Channels - Cold Bi Syndrome, Kidney Yang prostatitis, cardiac discomfort, retention of urine, consumptive Lin, sterility in women