Wind Pond is a beautiful and highly beneficial Acupuncture point along the Gallbladder channel. Located on the occiput, this point benefits the head, brain, eyes and neck. Because it moves stagnation and supports clear thinking, it is often used for headaches & neck tension, foggy thinking and eye issues.
Gallbladder 20 is also used to reduce Wind in the body, whether external or internal contracted. Externally contracted wind can bring pathogens into the body; this is one theory on how people get sick in Chinese Medicine. Internal wind shows up as the body moving on its own – ie. tremors, strokes, eye twitching, dizziness.
Another deeper benefit of this point is its ability to help you see your way out of difficult situations with creativity and flexibility, an overall gift of the Gallbladder official. * More gifts of this official include planning, thinking, decision making and vision. The Gallbladder’s energy resonates with the spring and the wood element. Like a plant creatively finding its way to the sun, leaning in towards it. Like a strong yet flexible tree, going with the flow as winds come thru.
The Gallbladder official is responsible for decision making and planning because of where its energy runs along the body – starts at the outside of the eyes, zigzags over the side of the head, enters the brain, moves down the side of the body to your 4th metatarsal. As you move thru life, making decisions, turning left and right we are always contemplating – “which way to go, this way or that?”. The Gallbladders energy is helping you see how to get there.
*Official is a term used in Chinese Medicine to refer to not only the physical functions of organ systems but what they also do energetically on the body-mind-spirit level.
Wind Pond – Gallbladder 20 explained with location.
