TE-1 - Passage Hub

关冲 - Guān chōng

Point Region: Finger

TE

Triple Energizer Meridian

手少阳三焦经 - Shǒu Shàoyáng Sānjiāo Jīng

Location & How to Find

Anatomical Location: On the ring finger, at the corner of the nail on the little-finger side, about 0.1 cun from the corner, where the side edge of the nail meets the line of its base.

Distances are in cun, a unit that scales with each person's body. As a guide, the width of your thumb at its joint is 1 cun, and your four fingers held together, measured across the middle joints, are 3 cun.

How to Locate:

  1. Look at your ring fingernail
  2. Find its corner at the base, on the side facing your little finger
  3. The point is just beside this corner
TE-1 (Passage Hub) acupressure point location: On the ring finger, at the corner of the nail on the little-finger side, about 0.1 cun from the corner, where the side edge of the nail meets the line of its base.

How to Apply Pressure

Once you have located TE-1, use only a light fingertip touch beside the nail; do not pinch or dig into the nail bed. Avoid it if the skin around the nail is broken, infected, or recently injured, and stop if it hurts.

Traditional Indications

In TCM, this point is traditionally used for:

  • Fever
  • Headache
  • Sore throat
  • Blurred vision
  • High temperature
  • Throat inflammation
  • Eye disorders

Related Health Concerns

HeadacheCold and Flu Onset

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Important Precautions

Avoid this point with:

  • Broken skin or infection around nail
  • Recent nail injury
  • Severe nail deformity