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Your patient is complains of frontal headache. What is a local point you could use in treatment?

ST-8
ST-12
ST-9
ST-25

ST-8 is on the head, so it's for headache. Since it's on the Yang Ming channel, its specialty is treating yangming (frontal) headache. But, with a different needle direction, it can also be used for shaoyang (temporal) or jueyin (vertex) headaache.

Source: "The Stomach Channel of Foot Yangming." A Manual of Acupuncture, by Peter Deadman et al., Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications, 2007, p. 136 [Q212]