Fengchi point is located in the occipital hairline, covered by hair, belonging to the cupping contraindication, so the clinical cupping and bloodletting treatment is not used, but acupuncture, massage or moxibustion can have the efficacy of dispelling wind and dispersing cold, relieving the surface and relieving pain.
Fengchi point is located in the back of the neck, is the trapezius muscle and sternocleidomastoid muscle in the head between the attachment of the depression, that is, traditional Chinese medicine said the two big tendons outside the edge of the fossa, when the level of the earlobe, left and right of a total of two acupuncture points, attributed to the foot Shaoyang gallbladder meridian, has the effect of dispersal of cold and relief of the surface, dispel the wind and relieve pain.
It can be used to treat all wind evidence, including cold and flu attacked by wind-cold and wind-heat, and stroke caused by internal wind (because of the abnormal function of internal organs caused by wind), etc. It can also be used to treat localized cervical stiffness and pain, sleepiness, frozen shoulder and other diseases.
Fengchi points have a wide range of roles, but can not be cupping and bloodletting, so the need for acupoint therapy, should go to the hospital, by a professional doctor after diagnosis for treatment, not unauthorized operation, so as not to cause adverse consequences.