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Depth
00.3–0.5 cun3.0
Transverse insertion
Precautions
No standard precaution.
📍 Location (classical)
With the teeth clenched, at the highest prominence of the masseter muscle, approximately one finger-breadth anterior and superior to the angle of the mandible.
🧭 How to find it (practical)
Seated or in lateral decubitus, locate the point 0.4 cun from the angle of the mandible. With the teeth clenched, the masseter muscle becomes prominent.
🔬 Anatomy
Masseter muscle. Innervated by the masseteric nerve (a branch of the trigeminal) and the facial nerve.
💉 Needling
Insert with the patient's mouth closed. Perpendicular insertion 0.3–0.5 cun, or transverse insertion 1.0–1.5 cun directed toward ST-4, SI-18, or SI-19.
📜 Etymology
Jia (頰), cheek region; Che (車), vehicle. Che refers to the mandible. The point lies in the cheek region near the angle of the mandible.
