Location. On the face, at the upper end of the nasolabial groove, at the junction of the nasal bone and the nasal cartilage, directly below the inner corner of the eye.
The name is positional and plain: shang means upper, and Yingxiang is the channel point LI20 that sits at the side of the nose. This point lies above it, and it is also written Bitong, nose-opening, in modern Chinese acupuncture literature. It is a point outside the fourteen channels, on the side of the nose where the bone ends and the cartilage begins. Published sources differ slightly on how to describe the site, so it is better read as a small area beside the upper nose than as a single exact spot. Later literature discusses it in the context of the nose and of the passages behind it; the classical record is thinner than for the channel points on the face, its reported effects are not established by modern research, and this entry makes no claim of benefit.
定位。在面部，鼻骨下缘、鼻唇沟上端尽处，即鼻骨与鼻翼软骨交界处，目内眦直下。
穴名直言其位：「上」指其在大肠经迎香（LI20）之上。本穴为十四经之外的奇穴，位于鼻骨与鼻翼软骨交界处、鼻唇沟上端；近代针灸文献又写作「鼻通」。各家对本穴所在的表述略有出入，宜作鼻上部外侧的一小片区域看，而非一个精确点。后世文献多于鼻及鼻窍的语境下讨论本穴；其古典记载较面部经穴为少，所述作用未经现代研究证实，本条不作疗效陈述。
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