EXT-3 - Fish Waist

鱼腰 - Yú yāo

Point Region: Face

EXT

Extra Points

其他穴位 - Qítā Xuéwèi

Location & How to Find

Anatomical Location: In a depression on the superciliary arch, above the pupil when the eyes look straight ahead.

Extra points have no international location standard, and Chinese texts number and place some of them differently. This location follows common teaching.

How to Locate:

  1. Look straight ahead in a mirror
  2. Locate the center of your eyebrow directly above your pupil
  3. Find the small depression in the eyebrow arch
  4. This point in the middle of the eyebrow bone is EXT-3
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How to Apply Pressure

Once you have located EXT-3 at the centre of the eyebrow, touch only the brow bone with a clean fingertip and never let it drift toward the eye; stop if eye pain or vision changes. Skip it during an eye infection, after recent eye surgery, or over eye trauma, which needs medical care.

Traditional Indications

In TCM, this point is traditionally used for:

  • Red eyes
  • Eye pain
  • Eyelid twitching
  • Frontal headache
  • Visual obstruction
  • Eye strain
  • Ptosis

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Important Precautions

Avoid this point with:

  • Eye infection
  • Recent eye surgery
  • Severe eye trauma

Take care:

  • Avoid direct pressure on eyeball
  • Use minimal pressure near eyes