Name

頰車

• Jia Che
• Vehicle of the Teeth
• Vehicle of Dispersion
• Vehicle of Mastication

Location

On the masseter muscle. The most prominent point when you clench your teeth, approximately 1 CUN medial and superior to the angle of the mandible.

Nature

• It is one of the Ghost Points Gui Chuang 鬼床 The Ghost's Bed

Actions

• Pain in the lower molars, sometimes also for the upper ones
• Gum inflammation
• Sternocleidomastoid tension: difficulty turning the neck, torticollis
• Trigeminal Neuralgia (Bright Yang problem): with LI-1
• Bruxism
• Eliminate Wind
• Mania, Epilepsy, Wind-stroke. Relaxes the Jaw, both during a Wind-stroke and after Convulsions.
• For gluttony. To regulate appetite.

Treatment

• Needling: 0.4 CUN perpendicular or oblique towards ST-4