Tibetan: སྤྱི་གཙུག་སྤུ་དཀྱིལ
Pronunciation: chee tsook pu kyil
Wylie: spyi gtsug spu dkyil
Abbreviation: spyi gtsug
Synonym: tshangs bug, crown point, sky gate point
Lit. “a curl of hair on the top of head”
Using: this point is used for moxibustion (me btsa’), massage kunye (bsku mnye) and Golden Needle Therapy (gser khab).
Location: at the intersection of imaginary lines, one of which connects tip of the nose and back of the head and other connects tops of ears. In this point central energetic channel joins together with energetic channels of solid and hollow organs.
Indications: dizziness and fainting due to rLung (rlung), madness due to life-sustaining rLung (rlung srog ‘dzin), unclear consciousness and perception, mental disorders, stoop because of the penetration of the rLung (rlung) and chuser (chu ser) in the spinal cord.
1) ཉི་ཟླ་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་ལྕི་ནང་ཚང “བསྐུ་མཉེའི་ལག་དེབ” ཞང་ཀང་ཐེན་མཱ་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཀུང་སི 2001 pp. 276 ISBN 962-450-412-1 (Tibetan.).