Use this acupoint page, LI20 Yingxiang: Welcome Fragrance, Nose-Side Location, and Sinus Safety, when the reader wants this exact point task: Understand LI20 before comparing sinus, nasal comfort, face-point, or printable-card pages.
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LI20 Yingxiang: Welcome Fragrance, Nose-Side Location, and Sinus Safety
Understand LI20 before comparing sinus, nasal comfort, face-point, or printable-card pages.
Content checked 2026-01-08Point-specific diagramEducation only
Quick Answer
LI20 Yingxiang, or Welcome Fragrance, is a Large Intestine point beside the nose. It can be read for mild nasal-comfort context, but fever, severe facial pain, swelling, infection signs, irritated skin, or eye symptoms should stop the point path.
Safety Decision
Stop before pressure if the body area is injured, the symptom is severe or unusual, or qualified care should come first.
Continue only as a short, comfortable, education-only routine after reading the locator and stop signs.
LI20 YingxiangBefore You Try This
LI20 is educational and not medical advice. Do not press infected, inflamed, injured, swollen, numb, painful, or irritated facial tissue, and do not use it for fever or worsening illness.
Ask qualified care for fever, severe facial pain, swelling, eye symptoms, infection signs, worsening illness, injury, unusual symptoms, or any facial symptom that does not feel routine.
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Is This the Right Page to Read Now?
This acupoint page fails if the Welcome Fragrance on the side of nose in the Large Intestine family locator becomes a treatment shortcut, a stronger-pressure target, or a replacement for the named safety stop signs.
Use LI20 only as a reading page when the face and symptom context is mild; open the sinus guide or Safety before comparing more face points. Then choose read-only, one brief comfortable contact, a printable card, or a safety stop.
Diagram Notes
The marker highlights LI20 Yingxiang, Welcome Fragrance, on a side of nose locator view; its landmark cue is "Beside the nostril, in the shallow groove at the side of the nose." Use it with the safety cues rather than treating the marker as clinical precision.
Locator overlay for LI20 Yingxiang, Welcome Fragrance, placed on CC BY 4.0 Servier Medical Art human anatomy base images and paired with a regional landmark view.
How to read the LI20 locator
- Start with the broad area: side of nose.
- Compare the written landmark: Beside the nostril, in the shallow groove at the side of the nose.
- Use the marker as orientation, then let comfort and the avoid infected, inflamed, or injured facial skin caution decide whether to stop.
The Welcome Fragrance locator uses a licensed educational anatomy base for the side of nose; it is not a clinical locator or personal safety clearance.
Why This Page Gets Extra Attention
Reader Scenario
A reader arrives at LI20 after seeing a short chart and needs to verify the Welcome Fragrance landmark on the side of nose before doing anything physical.
Common Misread
Do not use LI20 as a sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines shortcut; the locator and caution still decide whether this stays reading-only.
Editorial Call
Welcome Fragrance earns its length only when it separates side of nose touch, landmark confidence, sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines context, and the reason to stop.
Best Next Choice
Choose whether Welcome Fragrance should stay read-only, allow one brief comfortable side of nose contact, move to the printable card, or open a safety page.
Use the Welcome Fragrance locator as a neighborhood check for the side of nose; the written landmark still outranks the marker.
LI20 Yingxiang and the Welcome Fragrance memory
LI20 is the standard code for Yingxiang, written Yingxiangand commonly remembered as Welcome Fragrance. The name helps explain why the point appears near nose and nasal-comfort searches. It does not prove that pressing beside the nose changes congestion, smell, infection, allergy, or facial pain.
Nose-side location without pressing inflamed tissue
This atlas reads LI20 as a side-of-nose point. That is a sensitive facial neighborhood, not a target to dig into. A public page cannot see swelling, irritated skin, infection, broken skin, numbness, or whether facial pain is part of a larger illness. If the area is hot, sore, swollen, inflamed, or hard to interpret, keep LI20 as vocabulary only.
Why LI20 appears in nasal-comfort searches
LI20 often appears because nose-side landmarks are easy to remember and the Welcome Fragrance name feels connected to breathing and scent. The useful article job is to slow that leap down. Mild familiar stuffiness belongs in a reading path; fever, severe facial pain, infection signs, eye symptoms, or worsening illness does not.
How LI20 compares with LI4, BL2, and LU7
LI20 is the face point in the nasal group. LI4 is a hand point that may appear in headache or sinus lists but carries pregnancy and hand-tissue cautions. BL2 is an inner-brow point with eye-area limits. LU7 is a forearm point that belongs to a different body region. They are comparison pages, not a stronger routine.
The easy mistake with a blocked nose
The easy mistake is pressing harder because the nose feels blocked. More force does not answer whether the face is inflamed, whether infection signs are present, or whether symptoms are worsening. If pressure makes the area feel sharper, warmer, numb, or more irritated, stop and leave the point path.
Technique limits near the nose
Gentle external contact is the only self-care context this page can discuss. Acupuncture at LI20 belongs to qualified needle practice. Moxa adds heat near the face. Cupping or scraping near irritated facial tissue can create skin risk. This site does not teach those methods for the nose or promise a nasal result.
Best next page after LI20
For mild nasal reading, open the sinus guide and compare LI20 with one other point at most. For face pain, fever, swelling, eye symptoms, infection concern, or worsening illness, open Safety. For the name story, use the culture page rather than turning the translation into an action.
Full-page decision frame for LI20
LI20 Yingxiang, Welcome Fragrance, deserves more than a chart label because the reader has to make several separate decisions before touching the side of nose. The first decision is identity: this is a Large Intestine point, not a general label for every nearby tender place. The second decision is context: sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines is a traditional or wellness reading cue, not a promise that pressure changes a personal condition. The third decision is safety: avoid infected, inflamed, or injured facial skin. A full page for Welcome Fragrance therefore has to slow the reader down. It names the point, describes the broad locator, explains why the point appears with certain routines, separates acupressure from professional techniques, and gives a conservative next page. If the reader only wants a quick answer, the safest quick answer is still narrow: read the locator, check the stop signs, and use the point only as education unless the situation is mild and comfortable.
How to verify the side of nose landmark
LI20 starts with the side of nose view, but the visual marker is only a region finder. The written landmark carries the real work: Beside the nostril, in the shallow groove at the side of the nose. Use very gentle fingertip pressure and skip irritated, infected, or inflamed facial skin. This matters for Welcome Fragrance because readers often arrive after seeing a short social post, wrist band, point chart, or routine list. A chart can make the target look cleaner than a real body feels. The reader should first name the broad body area, then compare the landmark with bones, tendons, folds, or soft tissue nearby, then check whether the skin and sensation are normal. If the reader cannot repeat the landmark in plain English, LI20 should remain a reading page. If the body area is painful, numb, swollen, bruised, hot, wounded, recently injured, or hard to interpret, the locator has already done its job by telling the reader to stop.
What sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines means on this page
The phrase sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines explains why LI20 appears in this atlas, but it does not turn Welcome Fragrance into a personal answer. For Yingxiang, the use context is a signpost for reading related pages, not a guarantee, not a ranking, and not a reason to ignore symptoms. A better way to read the phrase is: people commonly encounter this point while researching sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines, so the page should explain the name, locator, safety limits, and nearby choices clearly. That is very different from saying the point handles the concern. If the concern is mild and ordinary, LI20 can be part of a conservative reading path. If the concern is severe, new, persistent, frightening, pregnancy-related, medication-related, child-related, post-surgery, or connected with chronic illness, the sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines phrase becomes less important than the safety path.
How LI20 relates to nearby point pages
Welcome Fragrance should be compared with related pages only one relationship at a time. Useful comparison points include LI4 Hegu (back of hand), EX-HN3 Yintang (between eyebrows), BL2 Zanzhu (inner eyebrow), GV26 Renzhong (upper lip groove). The relationship may come from the same meridian, the same body region, a similar routine page, or a shared beginner question, but those relationships do not make the points interchangeable. LI4 Hegu has its own locator and caution; EX-HN3 Yintang has another. For LI20, the right comparison question is not "which point is stronger?" but "which page answers my current job?" A culture page explains the name. A printable page preserves memory. A wellness page compares a mild scenario. A safety page interrupts action. Reading those pages in the right order keeps Yingxiang from becoming one more item in a long, unfocused list.
When pairing LI20 with another point makes sense
Pairing LI20 with another point is a reading decision before it is a physical routine. The safest pairing starts on a guide such as Acupressure for Sinus Pressure and Nasal Congestion, where the page can explain why several points appear together and which stop sign controls the whole set. For Welcome Fragrance, pairing is most useful when it clarifies roles: one point may be the main locator to read, another may be a comparison point, and another may be a reason to leave the routine for Safety. Pairing is not useful when it simply adds more body areas because more points sound more complete. Each added point adds a new landmark, new tissue, and a new way to misread discomfort. If the reader cannot explain why LI20 belongs with the next point, the better step is to read one full page and stop.
Using LI20 inside a short routine
Welcome Fragrance may appear in head, face, neck, or screen-fatigue reading paths, but a routine must leave severe, unusual, eye, neurological, or injury signs to care. A short routine around LI20 should have a beginning, a check, and an end. The beginning is the safety review: avoid infected, inflamed, or injured facial skin. The check is the locator review: Beside the nostril, in the shallow groove at the side of the nose. The end is a conscious decision to stop, continue reading, or open a related page. If gentle contact is appropriate, it should stay brief, comfortable, and easy to release. The reader should not chase a deep ache, try to create sensation, or keep pressing because a point name sounds important. A routine also should not stack LI20 with every point on the Large Intestine line. The page works best when it turns a vague impulse into one narrow action: read, locate broadly, touch lightly only if low risk is clear, and stop if the body gives any reason to stop.
Acupuncture, moxa, and cupping boundaries for LI20
LI20 can appear in professional acupuncture, moxibustion, or cupping contexts, but this page does not teach those methods. Acupuncture involves needles and belongs with qualified professional practice. Moxibustion involves heat, smoke, fire, burn risk, and pregnancy caution. Cupping involves suction, bruising, skin status, blood-thinner concerns, and injury questions. Those techniques are not stronger home versions of acupressure. For Welcome Fragrance, the public page can explain that the same named point may appear across modalities, but it cannot convert professional technique language into instructions. If a reader came here searching for needling effects, moxa application, cupping placement, or stronger results, the safe answer is to stay in education mode and use qualified care or a licensed practitioner rather than improvising on the side of nose.
Wrong turns readers make with Welcome Fragrance
A frequent wrong turn is to treat tenderness near LI20 as proof that the point was found. Tenderness can mean pressure is too strong, the tissue is irritated, or the wrong body area is being tested. Another wrong turn is to use sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines as a shortcut around safety. A third is to keep moving across the side of nose until something feels intense. For Welcome Fragrance, intensity is not the goal. Clarity is the goal. The reader should be able to say: this is the Large Intestine point Yingxiang, the locator is Beside the nostril, in the shallow groove at the side of the nose., the caution is avoid infected, inflamed, or injured facial skin, and my next step is either read-only, gentle and brief, a related page, or qualified help. If that sentence cannot be said honestly, the page has not cleared pressure.
When LI20 is not the right next page
LI20 is not the right next page when the reader is trying to decide whether a symptom is serious, whether medicine can be changed, whether pregnancy or child use is safe, or whether an injury can be worked around. It is also not the right page when face, eye, infection, vision, neurological, or severe head symptoms are present. In those cases, opening more point pages can create false momentum. The better route is a safety page, a professional conversation, or emergency guidance when warning signs are present. The value of the Welcome Fragrance article remains intact even when the answer is not to press. It still gives language, location context, visual orientation, and relationships. A high-quality point page is allowed to say that the most useful next action is leaving the point page.
How the printable card should depend on this page
The printable LI20 card should be treated as a reminder after this full article, not as the article itself. A card can remember Yingxiang, Welcome Fragrance, the broad side of nose cue, and the stop signs, but it cannot carry the full context around sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines, related points, source limits, or technique boundaries. For LI20, the card is useful when the reader has already read the landmark and wants a small memory aid. It is not useful when separated from the safety note, used during a high-risk situation, or shared as a quick instruction. If a card and the full page disagree in the reader's mind, the full page wins. If the card makes the action feel too easy, return to the full page or Safety.
Source and visual notes for Welcome Fragrance
The source notes on LI20 have different jobs. Nomenclature and location sources keep LI20 Yingxiang aligned with standard naming and broad locator language. Safety and health-information sources keep the page from becoming personal advice. The visual source identifies the licensed anatomy base used for orientation; it does not prove exact placement on any reader's body. For Welcome Fragrance, that split is important because source lists can look more authoritative than they are. A source can support a name, a boundary, a cultural context, or a visual credit, but it cannot inspect the reader, confirm a symptom, clear an injury, or promise that sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines will improve. The trustworthy reading is modest, traceable, and limited.
Final choice after reading LI20
End the Welcome Fragrance page with one of four choices. Choice one is read-only: the reader understands LI20 better but does not touch the side of nose. Choice two is a brief gentle contact: the situation is mild, the skin and tissue feel normal, the landmark is clear, and the reader can release immediately. Choice three is a related page: the reader needs Acupressure for Sinus Pressure and Nasal Congestion, a name-meaning page, a printable memory aid, or a safety answer before acting. Choice four is qualified care: the concern is personal, severe, persistent, unusual, pregnancy-related, medication-related, child-related, chronic-condition-related, injury-related, or unclear. The page is successful when the reader can choose among those outcomes without relying on a chart alone. LI20 is a named point, but the decision is the real product.
Relationship map after LI20
LI20 should leave the reader with a relationship map, not just a locator. Start with the point itself: Yingxiang, translated here as Welcome Fragrance, sits in the Large Intestine context and uses the side of nose cue. Then compare neighboring reading paths: LI4 Hegu on the back of hand; EX-HN3 Yintang on the between eyebrows; BL2 Zanzhu on the inner eyebrow; GV26 Renzhong on the upper lip groove; EX-HN5 Taiyang on the temple. Those pages are not backup targets to press if LI20 feels uncertain; they are separate articles with separate body areas, cautions, and purposes. The broader use-case map is Acupressure for Sinus Pressure and Nasal Congestion. Use those pages only when the concern is mild enough to remain in education and safety navigation. This map is important because many people search for a point by discomfort, then keep adding pages until something feels persuasive. A better habit is to ask which relationship explains the next decision. If the next decision is name meaning, open Culture. If it is a memory aid, open Printable. If it is a combination, open the matching wellness guide. If it is risk, leave LI20 for Safety. The map keeps Welcome Fragrance from becoming a loose claim about sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines.
What the reader can safely take away from LI20
A careful takeaway from LI20 has five parts. First, remember the identity: LI20 Yingxiang, Welcome Fragrance, is a named point, not a universal body button. Second, remember the place: Beside the nostril, in the shallow groove at the side of the nose. Third, remember the caution: avoid infected, inflamed, or injured facial skin. Fourth, remember the use-language limit: sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines explains why the point appears in traditional and wellness reading paths, but it cannot decide a personal symptom or promise an outcome. Fifth, remember the next action: read only, use a brief gentle contact only when low-risk context is obvious, compare one related page, or ask qualified care. This takeaway is intentionally practical. It gives the reader something to do with the page without turning the page into medical advice. For Welcome Fragrance, the best result is not that the reader presses more confidently. The best result is that the reader can explain why this point fits, why it does not fit, or why the question belongs outside the atlas today.
What sources support beside the evidence note for BL2
Reader use: for LI20 Yingxiang, the recalled sources support the exact article identity at /acupoints/li20-yingxiang/, the displayed point name, and the broad locator language used on this page rather than a generic chart. Reader use: for LI20 Yingxiang, the named sources support the page-specific boundary "LI20 is educational and not medical advice. Do not press infected, inflamed, injured, swollen, numb, painful, or irri..." and the article value "A LI20 article that separates the memorable nose-side name from infection, inflamed-skin, eye-area, and sinus-symptom..." without promising a result. Read these notes as traceability for this one point page; they cannot inspect the reader's skin, medication, pregnancy status, chronic illness, pain pattern, urgency, or whether pressure belongs today.
Questions Readers Usually Ask
Is LI20 the first point to read for sinus pressure?
It can be the first nose-side point to read for mild nasal-comfort context, but infection signs, fever, severe pain, swelling, or eye symptoms should stop the point path.
Can I press LI20 if the skin beside my nose is sore?
No. Sore, irritated, inflamed, injured, or infected facial skin should stay read-only on this site.
Why does LI20 link to LI4?
They appear together in some sinus and head lists, but LI4 is a hand point with different cautions. The link is for comparison, not for stacking pressure.
Sources Used
For LI20 Yingxiang: Welcome Fragrance, Nose-Side Location, and Sinus Safety, these notes are tied to this page asset: A LI20 article that separates the memorable nose-side name from infection, inflamed-skin, eye-area, and sinus-symptom decisions. They show which references support names, location terms, safety boundaries, cultural context, visual attribution, or content-check wording. They do not assess your symptoms, medication, pregnancy status, skin, or personal health situation for this page.
World Health OrganizationWHO Standard Acupuncture NomenclatureReader note: Used to keep point codes, pinyin naming, and meridian labels consistent. Not used as evidence that a point works for a health condition.Reader use: Used to keep point codes, pinyin naming, and meridian labels consistent. Not used as evidence that a point works for a health condition.World Health Organization Western Pacific RegionWHO Standard Acupuncture Point Locations in the Western Pacific RegionReader note: Used for broad location discipline and to avoid inventing locator certainty. Not used to make a public body-map marker clinically exact.Reader use: Used for broad location discipline and to avoid inventing locator certainty. Not used to make a public body-map marker clinically exact.NIH MedlinePlusSinusitisReader note: Used for nasal and facial-pressure safety boundaries, especially fever, severe pain, infection signs, and worsening illness. Not used to identify sinusitis for a reader or to claim that acupressure clears congestion or infection.Reader use: Used for nasal and facial-pressure safety boundaries, especially fever, severe pain, infection signs, and worsening illness. Not used to identify sinusitis for a reader or to claim that acupressure clears congestion or infection.NCCIHAcupuncture: Effectiveness and SafetyReader note: Used for conservative evidence and safety framing around acupuncture and acupressure. Not used to claim that a point treats a reader's symptoms or to teach treatment planning.Reader use: Used for conservative evidence and safety framing around acupuncture and acupressure. Not used to claim that a point treats a reader's symptoms or to teach treatment planning.NIH MedlinePlusEvaluating Health InformationReader note: Used for reader-facing source limits and no-fake-expert language. Not used to clear personal health decisions.Reader use: Used for reader-facing source limits and no-fake-expert language. Not used to clear personal health decisions.Standardization Administration of ChinaGB/T 12346-2021 Nomenclature and Location of Meridian PointsReader note: this source supports standardized point names, codes, and location vocabulary.Reader use: check standardized point codes, Chinese names, and location vocabulary for LI20 Yingxiang; do not treat naming precision as personal clearance.World Health OrganizationWHO Standard Acupuncture NomenclatureReader note: this source helps keep acupoint codes and English naming consistent across pages.Reader use: compare LI20 Yingxiang with international acupoint code and naming conventions, not with symptom advice.NCCIHAcupuncture: Effectiveness and SafetyReader note: this source supports cautious evidence wording and the education-only boundary.Reader use: understand cautious evidence, safety limits, and the education-only boundary around Large Intestine naming, side of nose location cues, and sinus pressure and nasal comfort routines.Servier Medical ArtServier Medical Art human anatomy imagesReader note: this source provides the licensed human-body base images under CC BY 4.0 attribution.Reader use: recognize LI20 Yingxiang's licensed human-body base as a visual orientation aid, not clinical point placement.