In the pulse diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine, it is designated in the posterior occipital high bone. Where is the occipital high bone?

The occipital bone is above the posterior side of the skull. In other words, when we lie flat, we can touch the skull on the ground. Generally speaking, a well-developed occipital bone and high intelligence also mean that the kidney is full of qi (the kidney dominates the bone filling and the brain is the marrow sea), while the kidney dominates life, and only when the kidney is full of qi can you live longer. Therefore, people with developed occipital bones have innate conditions for longevity.

The occipital bone is located behind the parietal bone and extends to the skull base. There is a big hole in the center of the occipital bone, called the foramen magnum, which is the place where the brain connects with the spinal cord. The occipital bone can be divided into four parts centered on the foramen magnum; The back is the scale, the front is the base, and the side is the side. Occipital bone is connected with parietal bone, temporal bone and sphenoid bone.

Inner face of occipital bone: it is the inclined plane of occipital foramen forward, and there are hypoglossal nerve tubes in front and outside of occipital foramen. The two ends of the tube are open, which are called the inner and outer openings of the hypoglossal nerve tube respectively. Behind the foramen magnum, there is an internal occipital ridge extending backward and upward to the internal occipital protuberance, with a sagittal groove on it and transverse grooves on both sides. There is a jugular notch on the anterolateral margin of occipital bone, which forms a jugular foramen together with the jugular fossa on the temporal bone.

Outside the occipital bone: there are elliptic convex articular surfaces on both sides of the foramen magnum, which are called occipital condyles and form occipital joints with the superior articular fossa of the annular vertebra. There is a raised pharyngeal nodule in front of the foramen magnum, and the occipital external ridge extends to the occipital external protuberance behind the foramen magnum. There is an upper neckline on both sides of the protuberance and a lower neckline parallel to it below.