Location
( GV-13 Way of Happiness TAODAO - Acupuncture Points ) On the midline, below the spinous process of the 1st thoracic vertebra (T1).

How to find
Locate C7. Palpate downward to the next spinous rocess (T1) and locate GV-13 on the midline, below its spinous rocess.
Located on the same level are a point of -- Ex-B-2/BL-11/S.I.-14(0.5/1.5/3 cun lateral to the midline).

Needling
0.3–1 cun strictly perpendicularly to the skin or obliquely in an nferior direction, with the patient’s back straight or flexed in rder to avoid puncturing the spinal canal. Oblique insertions hould only be carried out by experienced practitioners, as in mall persons (irrespective of their body weight), the spinal anal may be reached after only 1.25 cun.

Actions/Indications
Dispels pathogenic factors
Opens the channel and luo-connecting vessels

Special features
Meeting point with the BL channel