Acupuncture Point Location: The Stomach Channel 1-12 (Stomach Meridian)

All right, the stomach channel. So stomach one is directly below the pupil between the eyeball and the infraorbital ridge. So we're between the eyeball and the bone. Stomach two is directly below in the infraorbital foramen, directly below the pupil. So this one, if you have a model of a skull you can actually see there's actually a decent hole right here and we're needling into that depression. Stomach three is below the pupil level with the lower border of the alanase. Stomach four, the deadman definition is point four soon from the corner of the mouth. That seems a little bit silly to me. We can just go with the cam definition which is below the pupil level with the corner of the mouth. So we want stomach one, two, three, and four to be all in a line. Okay, so we have stomach one, two, three, and four all in a line. So stomach five is on the anterior border of the masseter muscle. So we can feel along this ridge of the mandible and we're coming right before the masseter muscle. So if I have her clench her teeth, then this muscle pops out and we're right in front. So stomach six is one finger breath from the corner of the mandible. So we have the lower border of the mandible and the posterior border. It comes together to give us the angle and then we're one finger breath in. So if again I put my finger on here and have her clench her teeth, that's going to push my finger out. So we're right in the belly of the muscle there. Stomach seven is going to be directly above it below the zygomatic arch anterior to the condyloid process. So we can just start at stomach six and come straight up. But then if I palpate here, if I ever open and close her jaw, I can feel the condyloid process and we're going into this depression right in front of it for stomach seven. Stomach eight is half a cun in the hairline and 4.5 cun lateral to the midline. How do we measure four and a half cun? I don't know. So we have a couple ways we can find this. One is we can come half a cun into the hairline here, half a cun into the hairline here, and where they meet is stomach eight. Another thing we can do is come to the midline and then find gallbladder 15. So if we're directly above the pupil, half a cun in the hairline is gallbladder 15. This is 2.25 cun. So if we double it, we get four and a half cun. So come above the pupil and then double the distance. I think the easiest way, the way I do it, is if you know where tai yang is, the extra point tai yang, you can find tai yang and come straight up into the hairline and then it's half a cun back, half a cun posterior to give us stomach eight on the corner of the head. So stomach nine is level with the laryngeal prominence on the anterior border of the SCM. So here we can see the SCM. With LI-18, we are in the middle of the SCM. With stomach nine, we're level with the laryngeal prominence on the anterior border of the SCM. So after stomach nine, we need to find stomach 11. So stomach 11 is just above the clavicle between the sternal and clavicular heads of the SCM. So I have her turn her head all the way to left. You can see this kind of pop out that here's the sternal head attached to the sternum. Here's the clavicular head attaching to the clavicle. We're coming in between the two. So go ahead and look back straight. Stomach 11 is going to be above the clavicle between the two heads. And then after I have stomach 11, I find stomach nine, stomach 11, and come halfway on the anterior border for stomach 10. So stomach 12 and stomach 13 are on either side of the clavicle, four soon lateral to the midline. So to find four soon, midline to acromion process is eight soon. So we divide it in half for four soon. And then stomach 12 is above the clavicle in the supraclavicular fossa. And then stomach 13 is right below the clavicle, four soon lateral to the midline. So we could say right below the clavicle or in the zeroth intercostal space. So after that, we're just counting down in rib spaces, four soon lateral to the midline.