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Extra point · Head and Neck

Peaceful Sleep

安眠Ān Mián

Anatomical location

Midpoint between TE17 (Yifeng) and GB20 (Fengchi), behind the mastoid process.

Main function

Calms the Shen and promotes sleep.

Therapeutic indications

  • Insomnia
  • palpitations with anxiety
  • headache
  • vertigo
  • hypertension

Name and classical tradition

Anmian, 安眠, means “peaceful sleep”: 安, calm, peace; 眠, to sleep. It is one of the most transparent names in the Atlas, and also one of the most recent. It lies behind the mastoid process, halfway between TE17, Yifeng, and GB20, Fengchi.

It has no classical history. It does not appear in the works we were able to check, and its name, which says directly what it is for, is typical of the points added in twentieth-century China, when acupuncture was reorganized around specific indications.

Location of point EX-ANMIAN, Peaceful Sleep
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View point on the 3D modelEX-ANMIAN on the anatomy
Needling techniquePerpendicular insertion.
Depth0.5-1 cun
MoxibustionApplicable.
PrecautionsNone in particular.
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