壮。主头面肿，心痛，胃脘痛，痰壅膈闷胸胁疼，隔食反胃，伤寒结胸，腹胀腹鸣泄泻里急，肠风下血，脱肛，
五积 癖，寒疟不食，妇人胎衣不下。
商丘 足内踝下微前陷中。针入四分，灸三壮。主心下有寒，脾疼，脾热，脾虚令人不乐，腹胀，心烦，
骨痹，癫痫， 疟，血痢后重，痔骨蚀绝，阴股内痛，狐疝上下，小腹坚痛下引阴中。
三阴交 内踝上三寸，骨后筋前。针入三分，灸三壮。主膝内廉痛，小便不利，身重足痿， 癖，腹寒
气逆，脾病四肢不举，腹胀肠鸣，溏泄食不化，女子漏下不止。
漏谷 内踝上六寸骨下陷中。针三分，禁灸。主心悲气逆，肠鸣腹胀，饮食不为肌肤， 癖冷气，小便不
利，失精，湿痹不能行，足热痛，腿冷麻痹不仁。
地机 膝下五寸，大骨后，伸足取之。针入三分，灸三壮。主溏泄腹痛，气胀水肿，小便不利，腰痛，
足痛，癫疾，精不足，女子血瘕，按之如以汤沃，股、膝、阴皆痛。
阴陵泉 膝下内侧辅骨下陷中，曲膝取之。针入五分，禁灸。主心下满，寒中腹胀胁满，腹中水气，喘
逆，霍乱暴泄，足痛腰痛，小腹坚急，小便不利；又治遗尿失禁，气淋。妇人疝、瘕 同地机。
血海 膝膑上三寸内廉骨后，筋前白肉际，针入五分，灸五壮。主血漏下，血闭不通，月水不调，气逆
胀满。
箕门 血海上六寸，阴股内动脉应手筋间。禁针，灸三壮。主淋及小腹肿痛。以上足腿部。
冲门 大横下五寸，横骨两端约纹中。灸五壮。主寒气满腹积痛，阴疝难乳，子气上冲。
府舍 大横下三寸。灸五壮。主心腹胁痛，积聚，霍乱。
腹结 大横下一寸三分。灸五壮。主绕脐冷痛抢心腹，寒泄，咳逆。
大横 平脐旁四寸半。灸五壮。主腹热欲走，太息，四肢不可动，多汗洞泄，大风逆气，多寒善愁。
腹哀 日月下一寸。禁用针灸。以上腹部四行。
食窦 天溪下一寸六分，举臂取之。针入四分，灸五壮。主胸胁支满，膈间雷鸣。
天溪 胸乡下一寸六分陷中，仰而取之。针入四分，灸五壮。主喘气，乳肿痈溃贯膺，余同食窦。
胸乡 周荣下一寸六分陷中，仰取之。针入四分，灸三壮。专主胸胁支满，引胸背痛。
周荣 中府下一寸六分陷中，仰取之。针入四分，禁灸。主胸胁支满，咳唾脓血，咳逆上气，饮食不下。
以上膺部四行。
大包 侧胁部渊腋下三寸。针入四分，灸三壮。主腹大，胸胁中痛。内实则其身尽寒，虚则百节皆纵。
九穴午时手少阴，极泉青灵少海深，灵道通里阴 邃，神门少府少冲寻。
手少阴心经，左右一十八穴。午时自大包交与腋下极泉，循臂行至小指少冲穴止。
极泉 腋下筋间动脉入胸处。灸七壮。主目黄，咽干，心痛胁满，干呕烦渴，四肢不收。
青灵 肘上三寸，伸肘举臂取之。禁针，灸三壮。主头痛，目黄胁痛，肩不能举。
少海 肘内廉横纹头尽处陷中，曲手向头取之。针入三分，灸五壮。主头痛，目黄，目眩，项强，齿痛，
呕吐，肩背肘腋胁引项痛，癫痫吐舌，疟疾寒热汗出，四肢不举。
灵道 去掌后一寸半。针入三分，灸三壮，主悲恐心痛，螈 ，肘挛，暴喑。
通里 掌后一寸。针入三分，灸三壮。主头痛，目眩，面赤，暴哑，肘腕酸重，热病烦心，心悸，遗尿。
阴 掌后五分动脉中。灸七壮。主惊恐心痛，失喑，洒淅厥逆，霍乱，胸满，衄血。
神门 掌后兑骨端动脉陷中。针入三分，
灸七壮。主妄笑妄哭，喉痹，心痛，数噫，恐怖少气，疟疾，饮冷恶寒，手臂蜷挛，喘逆，遗尿，大人小儿五痫。
少府 手小指本节后直劳宫陷中。针入三分，灸五壮。主嗌中有气如 肉状，掌热，肘腋手挛急，胸痛烦
满，恐悸畏人及阴痛阴痒，遗尿。
少冲 手小指端内侧，去爪甲如韭叶。针入一分，灸一壮。主舌痛，口热，咽酸，掌热，心痛，痰气烦
闷，悲恐善惊，手掌肘腋蜷痛，身热如火，惊痫沫出。
手太阳穴一十九，少泽前谷后溪首，腕骨阳谷养老绳，支正小海肩真偶， 俞天宗连秉风，曲垣肩外肩中走，
天窗天容上颧 ，听宫耳前珠旁取。
手太阳小肠经，左右三十八穴。未时自少冲交与小指少泽，循肘上行至面听宫穴止。
少泽 手小指端外侧，去爪甲角如韭叶。针入一分，灸一壮。主头痛，目翳遮睛，口热口干，舌强喉痹，
唾如胶，寒疟汗不出，螈 ，咳嗽，小指不用。
前谷 小指外侧本节前陷中。针入一分，灸三壮，主目 烂，泪出目翳，鼻塞耳鸣，咽肿，颈项痛，臂痛
脏挛，热病汗不出， 疟，咳嗽，衄血，小便赤。
后溪 小指外侧本节横纹尖尽处，握掌取之。针一分，灸一壮。主喘息，身热恶寒，胸满，癫疾。余同前
谷。
腕骨 掌后外侧高骨下陷中，握掌向内取之。针二分，灸三壮。主头痛，胁腋痛，肩、臂、腕急痛如脱，
五指不可屈伸，乍寒乍热，疟，狂言，惊风，螈 。余同上二穴。
阳谷 手腕外侧兑骨下陷中。针二分，灸三壮。主目眩，上下齿痛，妄笑妄言，腹满，痔痛，阴痿。余同
腕骨。
养老 腕骨后一寸陷中。灸三壮。主手挛肩痛，目昏。
支正 腕骨后五寸。灸三壮，针三分。主头痛目眩，颈肿项痛，风虚惊恐狂言，身热消渴善食，腰胫酸。
小海 肘内大骨外，去肘端五分陷中，屈肘取之。针二分，灸三壮。主头痛项强，龋齿，龈肿，痫证吐舌，
螈，癫狂，肘腋肿，疡肿，小腹痛，寒疟、风疟。
肩贞 肩 后两骨罅间。针入一寸八分，禁灸。主颔痛项强，耳鸣耳聋，肩手臂风痹不举。
俞 肩 后大骨下、胛上廉陷中，举臂取之。针八分，灸三壮。主寒热，肩肿引胛中痛，臂酸无力。
天宗 秉风后大骨下陷中。针五分，灸三壮。主肩重臂痛，肘后廉痛，颊颔痛。
秉风 天宗前小 后，举臂有空。针五分，灸三壮。主肩痛不举。
曲垣 肩中央曲胛陷中，按之应手痛。灸十壮。主周痹，肩胛拘急疼闷。
肩外俞 胛上廉去大杼旁三寸。灸三壮。主肩胛痛至肘引项急，寒热。
肩中俞 脾内廉去大杼旁二寸陷中。灸三壮。主目昏，咳嗽唾血，上气寒热。
天窗 完骨下、发际上、颈上大筋处动脉陷中。针六分，灸三壮。主耳痛、耳鸣聋，颊肿咽痛，暴喑，肩
痛引项。
天容 耳下颊车后陷中。灸三壮。主喉痹，颈肿项痛，耳鸣，咳喘寒热。
颧 面颊兑骨下、下廉陷中。禁用针灸。主目黄赤，口僻僻，齿痛。
听宫 耳前珠子旁。针一分，灸三壮。主耳鸣聋，口噤喉鸣，心腹痛满，臂痛，失音。
足太阳穴六十七，睛明目内红肉藏，攒竹眉冲与曲差，五处上寸半承光，通天络却玉枕昂，天柱后际大筋
外，大杼背部第二行，风门肺俞厥阴四，心俞督俞膈俞强，肝胆脾胃俱挨次，三焦肾气海大肠，关元小肠
到膀胱，中膂白环仔细量，自从大杼至白环，
各各节外寸半长。上 次 中复下，一空二空腰髁当，会阳阴尾骨外取，附分侠脊第三行，魄户膏肓与神堂，
膈关魂门九，阳纲意舍仍胃仓，肓门志室胞之肓，二十柱下秩边场，扶承臀横纹中央，殷门浮 到委阳，
委中合阳承筋足，承山飞所踝跗阳，金门昆仑下仆参，申脉京骨束骨忙，通谷至阴小指旁。
足太阳膀胱经，左右一百三十四穴。申时自听宫交与睛明，循头颈下背腰臀腿，至足小指至阴穴止。
睛明 目内 红肉陷中。禁用针灸。
攒竹 当眉头陷中。禁用针灸。
眉冲 直眉头上神庭、曲差之间。针入三分，禁灸。主五痫，头痛鼻塞。
曲差 前发际侠神庭旁一寸半。灸七壮。主头项痛，目昏身热，心烦满，汗不出。
五处 上星旁一寸半。针三分，灸五壮止。主头风目眩，脊强反折，螈 ，癫疾。
承光 五处后一寸半。禁用针灸。
通天 承光后一寸半。针三分，灸三壮。主头痛重，暂起僵仆，鼻塞喘息不利，口 多涕，鼽衄有疮。
络却 通天后一寸半。禁针，灸三壮。主头旋耳鸣，目盲内障，癫狂，僵仆，螈 ，腹胀满不得息。
玉枕 络却后一寸半，横侠脑户一寸三分，起肉枕骨上。禁针，灸三壮。主因失枕头重，头半边寒痛，
项痛如拔及风眩目痛，耳聋，鼻塞目上插，卒起僵仆，恶见风寒，汗不出。
天柱 颈大筋外侠后发际陷中。针三分，灸三壮，至百五十壮止。主头痛头旋，目昏、目如脱、泪出，
鼻不知臭香，风眩卒暴，痫眩狂言目上视，及项如拔，项疼急，烦满汗不出，身肩背痛欲折。以上头部二行。
大杼 第一节外一寸半陷中。针三分禁灸。
风门 二节外一寸半。针五分，灸五壮。主伤寒头痛，项强，鼻塞流涕，目盲，衄血，咳嗽，呕逆，胸
背痛，气短不安。
肺俞 三节外一寸半。针三分，灸三壮。主胸中痛满，背偻如龟，脊强支满，瘿气，吐逆上气，寒热不
食，肉痛皮痒，传尸骨蒸，肺嗽喘咳，少气百病。
厥阴俞 四节外一寸半。灸五壮。主呕逆，牙疼，胸闷。
心俞 五节外一寸半。禁用针灸。
督俞 六节外一寸半。灸三壮。主寒热心痛，腹痛雷鸣，气逆。
膈俞 七节外一寸半。灸五壮。主喉痹，胸胁痛，肩背不得倾侧，心痛，痰饮吐逆，汗出，寒热骨痛，
虚胀支满，痰疟， 癖气块，膈上痛，身常湿不食。
肝俞 九节外一寸半。针入三分，灸三壮。主中风，支满胁痛，短气不食，食不消，吐血，目昏，肩疼
腰痛，寒疝，热病瘥后，食五辛多患眼暗如雀目，鼻中酸，寒 热 。
胆俞 十节外一寸半，正坐取之。针三分，灸三壮。主头痛，目黄，舌干，心胀满，吐逆短气，痰闷，
食难不下消，胸胁不能转侧，腋下肿，振寒汗不出。
脾俞 十一节外一寸半。针三分，灸三壮。主胁下满，吐泻疟痢，腹胀，黄胆身重， 癖积聚，腹痛，
寒热引脊痛，能食而瘦，腰脊强急，热 骨痛。
胃俞 十二节外一寸半，针三分，灸三壮。主胁满脊痛，腹胀腹痛，肠鸣，呕吐不食，筋脉挛急。
三焦俞 十三节外一寸半。针三分，灸三壮。主头痛目眩，肩背拘急，腰脊强痛，腹胀、腹痛，吐泻食不
化，肠鸣，腹中积聚如石。
肾俞 十四节外一寸半，与脐相对。针三分，灸三五壮。主肾虚水脏胀，耳聋目昏，面赤，心痛如悬，
胁痛引满，呕吐，寒中洞泄，腰痛，脚膝拘挛，小便赤白浊，尿血，遗精，小腹
痛，好独卧，身重如水，骨蒸寒热，一切五劳七伤。
气海俞 十五节外一寸半。主腰痛，痔病。
大肠俞 十六节外一寸半。针三分，灸三壮。主腰痛，肠鸣胀满，绕脐中痛，二便不利，或泄痢食不化，
脊强腹肿。
关元俞 十七节外一寸半。主风劳腰痛，泄痢虚胀，小便难，妇人瘕聚诸疾。
小肠俞 十八节外一寸半。针三分，灸三壮。主大便脓血，痔痛出血，妇人滞下，大便难，小便淋，泄痢五
色，重下肿痛，腰脊强，疝痛。
膀胱俞 十九节外一寸半。针三分，灸三壮。主风劳腰痛，泄痢肠痛，便难溺赤，阴疮，足胫冷，拘急不
得屈伸，女人瘕聚，烦满汗不出，小便黄赤，腰脊急强，积聚坚结，足清不仁，热 引骨痛。
中膂俞 二十节外一寸半。伏而取之。针三分，灸三壮。主赤白痢，虚渴汗出，腰不得俯仰，腹胀，胁痛，
疝寒，热 反折。
白环俞 二十一节外一寸半。禁用针灸。
上 腰陷骨下第一空，侠脊两旁陷中，余三 少斜，上阔下狭是也。针二寸，灸三壮。主鼻衄，呕逆，寒
热腰痛，妇人绝子，疟寒热，阴挺出不禁，白沥， 反折，大小便利。
次 第二空陷中。针二寸，灸三壮。主腰下至足不仁，恶寒，妇人赤白沥下，心下积胀，大小便利，疝
气下坠。
中 第三空陷中。针二寸，灸三壮。主五劳七伤六极，腰痛，妇人赤淫时白，气癃，月事少，大便难，
小便利，腹胀飧泄。
下 第四空陷中，针二寸，灸三壮。主腰痛，妇人下泔汁不禁，赤沥，阴中痒痛引小腹不可俯仰，大小便
利，肠鸣腹胀欲泄。
会阳 阴尾骨外各开一寸半。针入八分，灸三壮。主腹中有寒，泄泻肠 ，便血久痔，阳虚阴汗湿。以上
俱尾背部第二行，各开一寸半。
附分 第二节外三寸，附项内廉陷中，正坐取之。针八分，灸五壮。主背痛引颔引头，肩背拘急，风冷客
于腠理。颈项强痛不得回顾，风劳臂肘不仁。
魄户 三节外三寸，针五分，灸五壮。主咳逆喘气不得卧，肺寒热，项强，背胛无力，劳损痿黄，五尸走注。
膏肓 四节外三寸取穴。主治见后灸法。
神堂 五节外三寸。针三分，灸五壮。主肩痛，胸腹满，脊强急，寒热。
六节外三寸，膊内廉，以手厌之，令病患抱肘作 之声，则指下动矣。针六分，灸五壮。主目
眩，鼻衄，肩背痛，胁痛，喘主急，热病汗不出，虚损不睡，五心热，寒 ，寒疟，风疟、温疟、 疟、久疟，
小儿食时头痛。
膈关 七节外三寸，正坐开肩取之。针五分，灸五壮。主背痛脊强，食不下，唾哕多涎沫。
Background Information:
Book: *Yixue Rumen* (Introduction to Medicine)
Author: Li Su
Dynasty: Ming
Chapter: Meridian Acupoints Start and End (Part 2/5)
Category: Medical Discourse
Zhuang (Unit of moxibustion). Indicated for swelling of the head and face, heart pain, epigastric pain, phlegm obstruction causing chest oppression and hypochondriac pain, food stagnation with regurgitation, cold damage Jie Xiong syndrome, abdominal distension with borborygmus and diarrhea accompanied by tenesmus, intestinal wind bleeding, rectal prolapse, Wu Ji Pi masses, cold malaria with anorexia, and retention of the placenta in women.
Shangqiu (SP6) is located in the slight depression slightly anterior to the inferior aspect of the medial malleolus. Needle insertion depth: 0.4 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for cold in the epigastrium, spleen pain, spleen heat, spleen deficiency leading to low spirits, abdominal distension, irritability, bone Bi syndrome, epilepsy, malaria, post-dysenteric tenesmus, hemorrhoids with bone erosion, pain in the medial thigh, wandering hernia, hardness and pain in the lower abdomen radiating to the genitalia.
Sanyinjiao (SP6) is located 3 cun above the tip of the medial malleolus, posterior to the tibia and anterior to the tendon. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for pain on the medial knee, dysuria, heaviness of the body and flaccidity of the foot, Pi masses, rebellious Qi due to cold in the abdomen, spleen disease causing inability to move the limbs, abdominal distension with borborygmus, loose stools with undigested food, and continuous uterine bleeding in women.
Lougou (SP8) is located in the depression below the tibia, 6 cun above the medial malleolus. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion is prohibited. Indicated for sadness and rebellious Qi, borborygmus and abdominal distension, poor nutrition from diet, cold Qi in Pi masses, dysuria, seminal emission, Bi syndrome due to dampness causing immobility, hot and painful feet, cold and numb legs.
Diji (SP8) is located 5 cun below the knee, posterior to the large bone, taken with the leg extended. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for loose stools and abdominal pain, Qi distension and edema, dysuria, lumbar pain, foot pain, epilepsy, insufficiency of essence, blood mass (Ji Ju) in women feeling like scalding upon pressure, and pain in the thigh, knee, and genitalia.
Yinlingquan (SP9) is located in the depression below the medial condyle of the tibia, taken with the knee flexed. Needle insertion depth: 0.5 cun; Moxibustion is prohibited. Indicated for fullness in the epigastrium, middle-jiao cold causing abdominal and hypochondriac distension, water Qi in the abdomen, wheezing and rebellious Qi, acute cholera with sudden diarrhea, foot and lumbar pain, hardness and urgency in the lower abdomen, and dysuria; also treats enuresis and incontinence, and Qi Lin. For hernia and mass in women, treatment is the same as Diji.
Xuehai (SP10) is located 3 cun above the patella, posterior to the medial bone, at the junction of white skin and tendon. Needle insertion depth: 0.5 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for uterine bleeding, blood closure and obstruction, irregular menstruation, and rebellious Qi with distension.
Jimén (SP11) is located 6 cun above Xuehai, in the tendon space where the arterial pulse is palpable in the medial thigh. Needling is prohibited; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for strangury and swelling/pain in the lower abdomen. The above are acupoints on the lower limb.
Chongmen (ST30) is located 5 cun below Dahan, in the crease between the two ends of the Henggu bone. Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for fullness and accumulated pain in the abdomen due to cold Qi, Yin hernia affecting nursing, and Zi Qi rushing upward.
Fushe (ST29) is located 3 cun below Dahan. Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for pain in the heart, abdomen, and hypochondrium, accumulations, and cholera.
Fujié (ST28) is located 1.3 cun below Dahan. Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for cold pain around the navel striking the heart and abdomen, cold diarrhea, and coughing with rebellious Qi.
Dahan (SP15) is located 4.5 cun lateral to the umbilicus. Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for heat in the abdomen urging one to run, sighing, immobility of the four limbs, profuse sweating and洞泄 (cavity diarrhea), adverse Qi from severe wind, excessive cold, and melancholy.
Fu'ai (ST27) is located 1 cun below Riyue. Both needling and moxibustion are prohibited. The above are four rows of abdominal acupoints.
Shidou (ST23) is located 1.6 cun below Tianxi, taken with the arm raised. Needle insertion depth: 0.4 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for distending fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, and borborygmus in the diaphragm.
Tianxi (ST22) is located in the depression 1.6 cun below Xiang, taken supine. Needle insertion depth: 0.4 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for panting, breast swelling and abscess penetrating the chest; other indications are the same as Shidou.
Xiang (ST21) is located in the depression 1.6 cun below Zhourong, taken supine. Needle insertion depth: 0.4 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Specifically indicated for distending fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, radiating pain to the chest and back.
Zhourong (ST20) is located in the depression 1.6 cun below Zhongfu, taken supine. Needle insertion depth: 0.4 cun; Moxibustion is prohibited. Indicated for distending fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, coughing up pus and blood, rebellious Qi with cough, and inability to swallow food. The above are four rows of acupoints on the chest.
Dabao (SP21) is located 3 cun below Yuanye in the lateral hypochondrium. Needle insertion depth: 0.4 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for abdominal enlargement and pain in the chest and hypochondrium. In excess conditions, the whole body feels cold; in deficiency conditions, all joints become flaccid.
Nine acupoints of Hand Shaoyin [Heart Meridian] at Wu hour: Jiquan, Qingling, Shaohai deep; Lingdao, Tongli, Yinxi profound; Shenmen, Shaofu, Shaochong sought.
The Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian has 18 acupoints on each side. At Wu hour, it connects from Dabao to Jiquan in the axilla, follows the arm to Shaochong at the little finger, and stops.
Jiquan (HT1) is located where the artery between the tendons in the axilla enters the chest. Moxibustion: 7 Zhuang. Indicated for yellow eyes, dry throat, heart pain and hypochondriac fullness, dry retching with irritability and thirst, and flaccidity of the four limbs.
Qingling (HT9) is located 3 cun above the elbow, taken with the elbow extended and arm raised. Needling is prohibited; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for headache, yellow eyes and hypochondriac pain, and inability to raise the shoulder.
Shaohai (HT3) is located in the depression at the end of the transverse cubital crease on the medial side of the elbow, taken with the hand bent towards the head. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for headache, yellow eyes, vertigo, stiff neck, toothache, vomiting, pain in the shoulder, back, elbow, axilla, and hypochondrium radiating to the neck, epilepsy with tongue protrusion, malaria with chills, fever, and sweating, and inability to move the limbs.
Lingdao (HT4) is located 1.5 cun proximal to the wrist crease. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for sorrow, fear, and heart pain, convulsions, elbow contracture, and sudden aphonia.
Tongli (HT5) is located 1 cun proximal to the wrist crease. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for headache, vertigo, red face, sudden aphonia, soreness and heaviness of the elbow and wrist, irritability from febrile disease, palpitations, and enuresis.
Yinxi (HT6) is located in the arterial pulse 0.5 cun proximal to the wrist crease. Moxibustion: 7 Zhuang. Indicated for fright, fear, and heart pain, loss of voice, aversion to cold with shivering, cholera, chest fullness, and epistaxis.
Shenmen (HT7) is located in the depression of the arterial pulse at the end of the radial styloid process (Duigu bone). Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 7 Zhuang. Indicated for inappropriate laughing and crying, bi-suo (sore throat), heart pain, frequent belching, fear and shortness of Qi, malaria, aversion to cold after drinking cold liquids, curling and contracture of the arm, wheezing, enuresis, and five types of epilepsy in adults and children.
Shaofu (HT8) is located in the depression directly opposite Laogong, distal to the metacarpophalangeal joint of the little finger. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for a sensation of Qi like meat in the throat, hot palms, contracture of the elbow, axilla, and hand, chest pain and irritability, fear, palpitations, aversion to people, and pain and itching in the genitalia, enuresis.
Shaochong (HT9) is located on the medial side of the tip of the little finger, 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail. Needle insertion depth: 0.1 cun; Moxibustion: 1 Zhuang. Indicated for tongue pain, oral heat, sour throat, hot palms, heart pain, irritability from phlegm-Qi, sorrow, fear, and susceptibility to fright, pain in the palm, elbow, and axilla with curling, body heat like fire, and convulsive epilepsy with foaming.
Nineteen acupoints of Hand Taiyang [Small Intestine Meridian]: Shaoze, Qian Gu, Hou Xi lead; Wang Gu, Yang Gu, Yanglao, Zhi Zheng, Xiaohai, Jianzhen pair; Naoshu, Tiantong, Bingfeng connect; Quyuan, Jianwai, Jianzhong proceed; Tianchuang, Tianrong ascend to Quanliao; Tinggong is taken beside the pearl in front of the ear.
The Hand Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian has 38 acupoints on both sides. At Wei hour, it connects from Shaochong to Shaoze at the little finger, ascends along the elbow to Tinggong in the face, and stops.
Shaoze (SI1) is located on the lateral side of the tip of the little finger, 0.1 cun from the corner of the nail. Needle insertion depth: 0.1 cun; Moxibustion: 1 Zhuang. Indicated for headache, corneal opacity obscuring vision, oral heat and dry mouth, stiff tongue and bi-suo, thick saliva, cold malaria without sweat, convulsions, cough, and dysfunction of the little finger.
Qiangu (SI2) is located in the depression anterior to the metacarpophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the little finger. Needle insertion depth: 0.1 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for rotting of the eye canthus, tearing and corneal opacity, nasal congestion and tinnitus, swollen throat, neck and shoulder pain, arm pain and organ contracture, febrile disease without sweat, malaria, cough, epistaxis, and reddish urine.
Houxi (SI3) is located at the tip of the transverse crease of the metacarpophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the little finger, taken with a clenched fist. Needle insertion depth: 0.1 cun; Moxibustion: 1 Zhuang. Indicated for wheezing, fever with aversion to cold, chest fullness, and epilepsy. Other indications are the same as Qiangu.
Wanggu (SI4) is located in the depression below the high bone on the lateral side of the wrist, taken with a clenched fist facing inward. Needle insertion depth: 0.2 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for headache, hypochondriac and axillary pain, acute pain in the shoulder, arm, and wrist as if dislocated, inability to flex and extend the five fingers, alternating chills and fever, malaria, delirium, infantile convulsions, and convulsions. Other indications are the same as the previous two points.
Yanggu (SI5) is located in the depression below the radial styloid process on the lateral side of the wrist. Needle insertion depth: 0.2 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for vertigo, upper and lower toothache, inappropriate laughing and talking, abdominal fullness, hemorrhoid pain, and impotence. Other indications are the same as Wanggu.
Yanglao (SI6) is located in the depression 1 cun posterior to Wanggu. Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for hand contracture and shoulder pain, blurred vision.
Zhizheng (SI7) is located 5 cun posterior to Wanggu. Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang; Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun. Indicated for headache and vertigo, swollen neck and stiff neck, fear and delirium due to wind deficiency, fever, wasting-thirst with good appetite, and soreness of the waist and calf.
Xiaohai (SI8) is located in the depression 0.5 cun from the end of the elbow, lateral to the large bone of the elbow, taken with the elbow flexed. Needle insertion depth: 0.2 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for headache and stiff neck, dental caries, gingival swelling, epilepsy with tongue protrusion, convulsions, mania, swelling of the elbow and axilla, abscesses, lower abdominal pain, cold malaria, and wind malaria.
Jianzhen (SI9) is located in the gap between the two bones posterior to Jianyu. Needle insertion depth: 1.8 cun; Moxibustion is prohibited. Indicated for chin and neck pain, stiffness, tinnitus and deafness, and Bi syndrome of the shoulder and arm preventing elevation.
Naoshu (SI10) is located in the depression below the large bone posterior to Jianyu and at the upper border of the scapula, taken with the arm raised. Needle insertion depth: 0.8 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for chills and fever, shoulder swelling with pain radiating to the scapula, and arm soreness with weakness.
Tiantong (SI11) is located in the depression below the large bone posterior to Bingfeng. Needle insertion depth: 0.5 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for heavy shoulders and arm pain, pain at the posterior edge of the elbow, and cheek and chin pain.
Bingfeng (SI12) is located anterior to Tiantong and posterior to Xiaohai, with a gap when the arm is raised. Needle insertion depth: 0.5 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for shoulder pain preventing elevation.
Quyuan (SI13) is located in the depression of the curved scapula in the center of the shoulder, tender to pressure. Moxibustion: 10 Zhuang. Indicated for generalized Bi syndrome, stiffness and stuffiness in the shoulder blade.
Jianwaishu (SI14) is located 3 cun lateral to Dazhu at the upper border of the scapula. Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for shoulder blade pain radiating to the elbow and neck stiffness, chills and fever.
Jianzhongshu (SI15) is located in the depression 2 cun lateral to Dazhu on the medial side of the arm. Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for blurred vision, coughing up blood, rebellious Qi, chills, and fever.
Tianchuang (SI16) is located in the depression of the arterial pulse on the large tendon of the neck, below Wan Gu, above the hairline. Needle insertion depth: 0.6 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for ear pain, tinnitus, deafness, cheek swelling, sore throat, sudden aphonia, and shoulder pain radiating to the neck.
Tianrong (SI17) is located in the depression posterior to Jiache below the ear. Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for bi-suo, neck swelling and pain, tinnitus, cough, wheezing, chills, and fever.
Quanliao (SI18) is located in the depression below the zygomatic bone on the cheek. Both needling and moxibustion are prohibited. Indicated for yellow and red eyes, facial deviation, and toothache.
Tinggong (SI19) is located beside the "pearl" (tragus) in front of the ear. Needle insertion depth: 0.1 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for tinnitus and deafness, lockjaw and throat noise, heart and abdominal pain and fullness, arm pain, and aphonia.
Sixty-seven acupoints of Foot Taiyang [Bladder Meridian]: Jingming hides in the inner canthus red flesh; Cuanzhu, Meichong, and Qucha; Wuchu is 1.5 cun above Shangxing, Chengguang; Tongtian, Luoque, and Yuzhen rise; Tianzhu is outside the large tendon at the posterior hairline; Dazhu is in the second row of the back; Fengmen, Feishu, Juyinshu, Xinshu, Dushu, Geshu are strong; Liver, Gallbladder, Spleen, Stomach follow in order; Sanjiaoshu, Shenshu, Qihais, Dachangshu; Guanyuanshu, Xiaochangshu to Pangguangshu; Zhonglushu and Baihuanxu measured carefully; From Dazhu to Baihuanxu, each is 1.5 cun lateral to the vertebral segment. Shangliao, Ciliao, Zhongliao, Xialiao follow down; first and second spaces correspond to the sacral foramina; Huiyang is taken 1.5 cun lateral to the coccyx; Fufen is in the third row beside the spine; Pohu, Gaohuang, and Shentang; Ge Guan, Hunmen nine; Yanggang, Yishe, Weicang; Mangmen, Zhishi, Baozhihuang; twenty pillars down to Zhibian field; Fulcheng is at the center of the gluteal crease; Yinmen, Fupeng to Weiyang; Weizhong, Heyang, Chengjin at the foot; Chengshan, Fei, Suo, Huayang at the ankle; Jinmen, Kunlun, Pucan below; Shenmai, Jinggu, Shugu busy; Tonggu and Zhiyin beside the little toe.
The Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian has 134 acupoints on both sides. At Shen hour, it connects from Tinggong to Jingming, follows the head, neck, back, waist, buttocks, and legs, to Zhiyin at the little toe, and stops.
Jingming (BL1) is located in the depression of the red flesh at the inner canthus. Both needling and moxibustion are prohibited.
Cuanzhu (BL2) is located in the depression at the eyebrow head. Both needling and moxibustion are prohibited.
Meichong (BL3) is located straight above the eyebrow head between Shenting and Qucha. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion is prohibited. Indicated for five types of epilepsy, headache, and nasal congestion.
Qucha (BL4) is located 1.5 cun lateral to Shenting at the anterior hairline. Moxibustion: 7 Zhuang. Indicated for head and neck pain, blurred vision with fever, irritability and fullness, and absence of sweat.
Wuchu (BL5) is located 1.5 cun lateral to Shangxing. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for wind-headache and vertigo, stiff spine with opisthotonos, convulsions, and epilepsy.
Chengguang (BL6) is located 1.5 cun posterior to Wuchu. Both needling and moxibustion are prohibited.
Tongtian (BL7) is located 1.5 cun posterior to Chengguang. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for heavy headache, sudden stiffness and falling, nasal congestion with difficult breathing, excessive nasal discharge, rhinitis, epistaxis, and sores.
Luoque (BL9) is located 1.5 cun posterior to Tongtian. Needling is prohibited; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for spinning vertigo and tinnitus, blindness with internal clouding, mania, sudden falling, convulsions, abdominal distension and fullness with inability to breathe.
Yuzhen (BL9) is located 1.5 cun posterior to Luoque, horizontal and beside Naohu 1.3 cun, rising on the occipital bone. Needling is prohibited; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for heavy head due to pillow injury, half-head cold pain, pulling pain in the neck, wind vertigo and eye pain, deafness, nasal congestion with eyes staring upward, sudden falling, aversion to wind and cold, and absence of sweat.
Tianzhu (BL10) is located in the depression outside the large tendon of the neck beside the posterior hairline. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang, up to 150 Zhuang. Indicated for headache and vertigo, blurred vision, eyes feeling as if popping out, tearing, loss of smell, sudden wind vertigo, epilepsy with vertigo and delirium with eyes staring upward, pulling pain in the neck, acute neck pain, irritability and absence of sweat, and breaking pain in the body, shoulder, and back. The above are two rows of head acupoints.
Dazhu (BL11) is located in the depression 1.5 cun lateral to the first thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion is prohibited.
Fengmen (BL12) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the second thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.5 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for cold damage headache, stiff neck, nasal congestion with runny nose, blindness, epistaxis, cough, vomiting and rebellious Qi, chest and back pain, and shortness of breath with uneasiness.
Feishu (BL13) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the third thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for pain and fullness in the chest, hunchback like a turtle, stiff spine with distension, goiter, vomiting and rebellious Qi, chills and fever with anorexia, muscle pain and itchy skin, consumption with bone-steaming fever, lung cough and wheezing, shortness of Qi, and various diseases.
Juyinshu (BL14) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the fourth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for vomiting and rebellious Qi, toothache, and chest tightness.
Xinshu (BL15) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the fifth thoracic vertebra. Both needling and moxibustion are prohibited.
Dushu (BL16) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the sixth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for chills and fever with heart pain, rumbling abdominal pain, and rebellious Qi.
Geshu (BL17) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the seventh thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for bi-suo, chest and hypochondriac pain, inability to tilt the shoulder and back, heart pain, vomiting of phlegm-fluids, sweating, chills and fever with bone pain, deficiency distension with distension, phlegm-malaria, Pi masses and Qi lumps, pain above the diaphragm, chronic dampness with anorexia.
Ganshu (BL18) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the ninth thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for wind-stroke, distension and hypochondriac pain, shortness of breath with anorexia, indigestion, hematemesis, blurred vision, shoulder and lumbar pain, cold hernia, post-febrile condition, night blindness from excessive pungent foods, nasal sourness, and alternating chills and fever.
Danshu (BL19) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the tenth thoracic vertebra, taken sitting upright. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for headache, yellow eyes, dry tongue, chest fullness, vomiting and shortness of Qi, phlegm oppression, difficulty swallowing and digesting, inability to turn the chest and hypochondrium, axillary swelling, chills with absence of sweat.
Pishu (BL20) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the eleventh thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for subcostal fullness, vomiting, diarrhea, malaria, and dysentery, abdominal distension, jaundice with heaviness, Pi masses and accumulations, abdominal pain, chills and fever radiating to the spine, eating well but losing weight, stiff and urgent waist and spine, and hot bone pain.
Weishu (BL21) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the twelfth thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for hypochondriac fullness and back pain, abdominal distension and pain, borborygmus, vomiting with anorexia, and tendon and vessel contracture.
Sanjiaoshu (BL22) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the thirteenth thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for headache and vertigo, stiffness of the shoulder and back, stiff and painful waist and spine, abdominal distension and pain, vomiting and diarrhea with undigested food, borborygmus, and stone-like accumulation in the abdomen.
Shenshu (BL23) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the fourteenth thoracic vertebra, opposite the umbilicus. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3-5 Zhuang. Indicated for kidney deficiency with water swelling, deafness and blurred vision, red face, hanging heart pain, hypochondriac pain radiating to fullness, vomiting, cold cavity diarrhea, lumbar pain, cramping of feet and knees, reddish or turbid urine, hematuria, seminal emission, lower abdominal pain, preference for lying alone, heaviness like water, bone-steaming chills and fever, and all forms of five labors and seven injuries.
Qihais (BL24) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the fifteenth thoracic vertebra. Indicated for lumbar pain and hemorrhoidal disease.
Dachangshu (BL25) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the sixteenth thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for lumbar pain, borborygmus and distension, periumbilical pain, difficulty in urination and defecation, or diarrhea/dysentery with undigested food, stiff spine and abdominal swelling.
Guanyuanshu (BL26) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the seventeenth thoracic vertebra. Indicated for wind-labor lumbar pain, diarrhea/dysentery with deficiency distension, difficult urination, and various gynecological masses.
Xiaochangshu (BL27) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the eighteenth thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for pus and blood in stool, hemorrhoid pain and bleeding, leukorrhea in women, difficult defecation, strangury, multi-colored diarrhea, heavy tenesmus with swelling and pain, stiff waist and spine, and hernia pain.
Pangguangshu (BL28) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the nineteenth thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for wind-labor lumbar pain, diarrhea/dysentery with intestinal abscess, difficult defecation and reddish urine, yin sores, cold calves, cramping preventing flexion and extension, gynecological masses, irritability with absence of sweat, yellow-red urine, stiff and urgent waist and spine, firm accumulations, cold and insensate feet, and Bi syndrome radiating to bone pain.
Zhonglushu (BL29) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the twentieth thoracic vertebra, taken prone. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for red and white dysentery, deficiency thirst with sweating, inability to bend and extend the waist, abdominal distension, hypochondriac pain, cold hernia, and Bi syndrome with opisthotonos.
Baihuanxu (BL30) is located 1.5 cun lateral to the twenty-first thoracic vertebra. Both needling and moxibustion are prohibited.
Shangliao (BL31) is located in the first sacral foramen below the lumbar depression, in the depression beside the spine; the remaining three liaos are slightly oblique, wider above and narrower below. Needle insertion depth: 2 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for epistaxis, vomiting and rebellious Qi, chills and fever with lumbar pain, infertility in women, chills and fever from malaria, procidentia with incontinence, leukorrhea, opisthotonos, and free passage of urine and feces.
Ciliao (BL32) is located in the depression of the second sacral foramen. Needle insertion depth: 2 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for insensibility from the lower waist to the feet, aversion to cold, red and white leukorrhea in women, epigastric accumulation and distension, free passage of urine and feces, and descending hernia Qi.
Zhongliao (BL33) is located in the depression of the third sacral foramen. Needle insertion depth: 2 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for five labors, seven injuries, six extremes, lumbar pain, red and white vaginal discharge in women, Qi strangury, scanty menstruation, difficult defecation, free passage of urine, abdominal distension, and cereal diarrhea.
Xialiao (BL34) is located in the depression of the fourth sacral foramen. Needle insertion depth: 2 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for lumbar pain, incontinence of milky fluid and red leukorrhea in women, vulvar itching and pain radiating to the lower abdomen preventing bending and extending, free passage of urine and feces, borborygmus, abdominal distension, and urge to defecate.
Huiyang (BL35) is located 1.5 cun lateral to each side of the coccyx. Needle insertion depth: 0.8 cun; Moxibustion: 3 Zhuang. Indicated for cold in the abdomen, diarrhea with intestinal wind, long-term hemorrhoids with blood in stool, and deficiency of Yang with damp sweat in the yin region. The above are all in the second row of the tail and back, 1.5 cun lateral.
Fufen (BL41) is located 3 cun lateral to the second thoracic vertebra, in the depression beside the medial neck, taken sitting upright. Needle insertion depth: 0.8 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for back pain radiating to the chin and head, shoulder and back stiffness, wind-cold invading the cou-li, stiff neck unable to look back, and wind-labor insensibility of the arm and elbow.
Pohu (BL42) is located 3 cun lateral to the third thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.5 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for rebellious Qi with cough and wheezing preventing lying down, lung chills and fever, stiff neck, weak back and scapula, consumptive sallow complexion, and five corpse migratory attacks.
Gaohuang (BL43) is located at the point taken 3 cun lateral to the fourth thoracic vertebra. Indications see moxibustion methods later.
Shentang (BL44) is located 3 cun lateral to the fifth thoracic vertebra. Needle insertion depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for shoulder pain, chest and abdominal fullness, stiff and urgent spine, chills and fever.
Ge Guan (BL45) is located 3 cun lateral to the sixth thoracic vertebra, on the medial arm; press with hand, ask patient to hug elbows making sound, then movement felt under finger. Needle insertion depth: 0.6 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for vertigo, epistaxis, shoulder and back pain, hypochondriac pain,急促 wheezing, febrile disease without sweat, deficiency failing to sleep, five-center heat, chills, cold malaria, wind malaria, warm malaria, Yin malaria, chronic malaria, and headache in children during meals.
Ge Guan (BL46) is located 3 cun lateral to the seventh thoracic vertebra, taken sitting upright with shoulders open. Needle insertion depth: 0.5 cun; Moxibustion: 5 Zhuang. Indicated for back pain and stiff spine, inability to eat, and copid salivary foam with hiccups.