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Yifeng (TE17) is located in the depression behind the earlobe; pressing it transmits sensation into the ear. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 7 cones. It treats ear pain, tinnitus and deafness, trismus (lockjaw), deviation of the mouth and eye, lower toothache, dislocation of the jaw upon yawning, cheek swelling, and acute pain of the mandible.

The vessel [Note: Text implies a specific pulse point or acupoint, likely Tinggong or similar, but text says 'Mai'] is located on the upper part of the chicken-foot-shaped blue vein behind the ear. Acupuncture and moxibustion are contraindicated.

Luxi (TB2) is located between the blue veins above the ear. Acupuncture is contraindicated; moxa 7 cones. It treats heavy head and blurred vision, wind-deafness and ear pain, ear blockage with tinnitus, vomiting, pulling pain in the chest and hypochondrium preventing flexion and extension, and epilepsy.

Jiaosun (TE14) is located at the middle of the upper edge of the auricle, below the hairline, with a gap when the mouth is open. Acupuncture is contraindicated; moxa 3 cones. It treats pterygium (corneal opacity), toothache, neck swelling, and nape pain.

Sizhukong (TE23) is located in the depression behind the bone of the eyebrow. Needle 0.3 cun, moxibustion is contraindicated.

He liao (TE18) is located below the horizontal hairline in front of the ear, over the pulsating artery. Needle 0.3 cun, moxibustion is contraindicated. It treats wind-induced heavy headache, acute mandibular stiffness, tinnitus, and swelling of the jaw and cheek.

Ermen (TE21) is located at the raised flesh in front of the ear, opposite the ear opening. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats ear pain and tinnitus, discharge of pus, sores, ear obstruction, and toothache.

The Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian has 43 acupoints along its long path. Starting from Tinghui, Shangguan, Heyan gathering together, then Xuanlu, Xuanli, Qubin, Shuaigu, Benshen, Yangbai, Linqi, Muchuang, Zhengying, Chengling, Tianchong, Fu Bai, Wangu, Qiaoyin, Naokong, Fengchi, Jianjing, Yuanye, Zhejin, Riyue, Jingmen, Daimai, Wushu, Weidao, Juliao, Huantiao, Fengshi, Zhongdu, Yangguan, Yanglingquan, Yangjiao, Waiqiu, Guangming, Yangfu, Xuanzhong, Qiuxu, Zulinqi, Diwu, Xiaxi, ending at Qiaoyin at the end of the fourth toe.

The Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian has 86 acupoints on both sides. At Zi hour, it connects from Ermen to Tongziliao at the outer canthus of the eye,循s down the side of the head, ear, and hypochondrium, stopping at Qiaoyin at the tip of the little toe.

Tongziliao (GB1) is located 0.5 cun lateral to the outer canthus of the eye. Acupuncture and moxibustion are contraindicated.

Tinghui (GB2) is located in the depression anterior to the earlobe, with a gap when the mouth is open. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats tinnitus and deafness, toothache, trismus, acute mandibular pain or dislocation, vomiting, bone soreness, mania, and convulsions.

Shangguan (GB3) is located on the upper border of the protruding bone anterior to the ear, with a gap when the mouth is open. Acupuncture is contraindicated; moxa 3 cones. It treats blindness (qingmang), ear pain, tinnitus, deafness, trismus, stiff lips and corners of the mouth, drooling, vertigo, tight mandible, and convulsions.

Heyan (GB4) is located laterally opposite the angle of the ear and forehead. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats wind-vertigo, visual impairment, migraine pulling to the outer canthus with tension, tinnitus, frequent sneezing, and neck pain.

Xuanlu (GB5) is located diagonally upward in the middle of the frontal angle, between Xuanli. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats red and swollen facial skin, fever with irritability and fullness, and anhidrosis. Other symptoms are the same as Heyan.

Xuanli (GB6) is located in the depression diagonally upward from the forehead to the temporal angle. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats migraine, red and painful outer canthus, red and painful face, epilepsy, irritability and fullness, and febrile disease with anhidrosis.

Qubin (GB7) is located where the hairline enters above the ear, in the depression of the curved corner; there is a gap when clenching the teeth. The point is where the ear covers the anterior tip. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats sudden aphonia, dental caries, cheek and jaw swelling, trismus, and acute mandibular pain.

Shuaigu (GB8) is located 1.5 cun above the ear entering the hairline. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats irritability, fullness, vomiting, alcohol injury, wind-induced vertigo and pain, phlegm-cold in the diaphragm and stomach, and vertigo at the brain angle with loss of appetite.

Benshen (GB13) is located 1.5 cun lateral to Linqi. It treats epilepsy with vomiting of saliva and foam, and pediatric convulsive epilepsy.

Yangbai (GB14) is located 1 cun above the eyebrow, directly above the pupil. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats pain, itching, and blurring of the pupil, tension of the ocular system pulling upward, headache and eye pain, excessive eye discharge, and chills in the back.

Zulinqi (GB41) is located 0.5 cun above the hairline, directly above the eye. Needle 0.3 cun, moxibustion is contraindicated. It treats stroke with loss of consciousness, corneal opacity with excessive tearing, wind-vertigo with nasal congestion, axillary swelling, biting tendency, chest bi, heart pain, hypochondriac pain, and malaria occurring twice daily.

Muchuang (GB15) is located 1 cun posterior to Linqi. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats headache and vertigo due to rebellious heat, stiff lips and corners of the mouth, upper toothache, red and unclear outer canthus, and chills/fever with anhidrosis.

Zhengying (GB16) is located 1 cun posterior to Muchuang. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats various heat conditions of the Yang meridians.

Chengling (GB17) is located 1.5 cun posterior to Zhengying. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats wind-headache of the brain, aversion to wind and cold, epistaxis, and rapid breathing.

Tianchong (GB19) is located 1.5 cun posterior to Chengling, and 3 fen above the ear as described previously. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats headache and gum swelling, epilepsy with fear and palpitations.

Fubai (GB12) is located 1 cun above the ear entering the hairline. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 7 cones. It treats toothache, tinnitus, neck and nape abscess, goiter, shoulder and back pain, flaccidity of arms and weakness of legs, abdominal fullness with wheezing, rebellious cough with sputum.

Wangu (GB11) is located 4 fen above the ear entering the hairline. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 7 cones. It treats pain of the head and face, trismus, acute mandibular stiffness, toothache, throat obstruction, neck and nape swelling, cheek swelling pulling to the back of the ear, elbow pain, leg flaccidity, epilepsy with falling stiffly, manic malaria, and yellow-red urine.

Qiaoyin (GB11) is located above Wangu, under the occipital bone, with a gap when shaking the ear. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 7 cones. It treats piercing headache, jaw pain pulling to the ear, tinnitus, bleeding from the root of the tongue and cold tongue, dry mouth with irritability, bi syndrome of the outer arm and elbow unable to reach the head, nasal tubercle developing into leprosy, epistaxis, tetany of the four limbs, and carbuncles/malignant sores.

Naokong (GB18) is located posterior to Chengling, beside the Yuzhen bone, in the depression under the occipital bone, with a gap when shaking the ear. Needle 0.4 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats wind-headache of the brain with vertigo, tinnitus and deafness, epistaxis, nasal tubercle developing into leprosy, stiff neck with chills and fever, emaciated epilepsy. In the past, Emperor Wu of Wei suffered from wind-headache; when it attacked, he felt胸闷 and vertigo. Hua Tuo treated him with moxibustion and he recovered immediately.

Fengchi (GB20) is located 1.5 cun posterior to the ear, horizontally opposite Fengfu. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 7 cones, up to 100 cones. It treats brain pain, facial redness and swelling due to lung wind, blurred vision, stiff neck, epistaxis, throat pulling the neck into spasm, chills/fever with falling, irritability/fullness with anhidrosis, ulcerative malaria with chills/fever, warm disease with anhidrosis, vertigo and headache, tearing, yawning with shortness of breath, red and painful eyes, qi rebellion causing ear blockage, deviation of the mouth, and stooping of the neck and back.

Jianjing (GB21) is located 1.5 cun posterior to the collarbone depression; press with three fingers, the point is in the depression under the middle finger. Needle 0.6 cun, moxa 7 cones. It treats five exhaustions and seven injuries, stiff neck, stuffiness of the back and shoulders, inability to raise hands to the head, lumbar and hip pain from falls, ascending gout, post-abortion cold extremities in women, rebellious cough with chills/fever, and shortness of breath preventing lying down.

Yuanye (GB22) is located in the depression 3 cun below the lateral axilla; take the point with the arm raised. Acupuncture and moxibustion are contraindicated.

Zhejin (GB24) is located 1 cun anterior to Yuanye. Needle 0.6 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats sudden chest fullness and wheezing preventing lying down.

Riyue (GB25) is located 0.5 cun below Qimen, at the third rib below the nipple. Needle 0.7 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats heat in the lower abdomen with desire to walk, sighing, irregular mood, excessive talking, continuous salivation, and inability to control the four limbs.

Jingmen (GB25) is located at the root of the costal arch, in the waist beside the spine under the monitoring bone. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats low back pain preventing flexion/extension, chills/fever with abdominal distension pulling to the back preventing breathing, red/scanty urination, lower abdominal pain and swelling, borborygmus and watery diarrhea, hip joint pain pulling to the shoulder/back, chills, pain in the medial scapula, spinal opisthotonos, and body pain.

Daimai (GB26) is located 1.8 cun below the costal arch. Needle 0.6 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats firm pain in the lower abdomen in women, irregular menstruation, red and white leukorrhea, tenesmus, and convulsions.

Wushu (GB27) is located 1.5 cun lateral to Shuidao. Needle 1 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats cold hernia in men, testicular retraction with lower abdominal pain, red and white leukorrhea in women, tenesmus, and convulsions.

Weidao (GB28) is located 5.3 cun below Zhangmen. Needle 0.8 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats persistent rebellious cough, dysfunction of the Sanjiao, edema, and rebellious cough.

Juliao (GB29) is located in the depression 8.3 cun below Zhangmen. Needle 0.8 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats low back pain pulling to the lower abdomen, shoulder pain pulling to the chest and arm with spasm, and inability to raise the arm to shoulder height.

Huantiao (GB30) is located in the depression posterior to the femoral head (pivot bone); take the point lying on the side, curling the upper leg and extending the lower leg. Needle 1 cun, moxa 50 cones. It treats wind-damp-cold bi, wind-rash, hemiplegia from wind, low back and hip pain preventing turning, unpredictable chest/hypochondriac pain, pulling acute pain between waist and hypochondrium, pain in the hip pivot, shin pain, and shin bi with numbness.

Fengshi (GB31) is located between the two tendons on the lateral aspect 5 cun above the knee; take the point with hands resting on the thighs, where the middle fingertips reach. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats leprosy sores.

Zhongdu (GB32) is located 5 cun above the knee, in the depression between the large bone and the separated muscles laterally. Acupuncture and moxibustion are contraindicated.

Yangguan (GB33) is located 2 cun above Yanglingquan, in the depression lateral to Dubi. Acupuncture and moxibustion are contraindicated.

Yanglingquan (GB34) is located 1 cun below the fibular head, in the depression between the two bones laterally; take the point squatting. Needle 0.6 cun, moxa 7 cones up to 49 cones. It treats inability to extend the knee, cold bi, hemiplegia from wind, cold feet without blood color, headache with chills/fever, bitter taste and difficult swallowing, swelling of the head and face, chest/hypochondriac fullness, and fear in the heart as if being caught.

Yangjiao (GB35) is located obliquely between the muscles of the three Yang meridians, parallel to Waiqiu. Needle 0.6 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats cold jue, fright and mania, throat obstruction, chest fullness, facial swelling, and cold bi with inability to hold the knee and shin.

Waiqiu (GB36) is located in the bone depression 7 cun above the lateral malleolus. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats skin pain, flaccidity bi, chest/hypochondriac distension, neck pain, aversion to wind/cold, and epilepsy.

Guangming (GB37) is located 5 cun above the lateral malleolus. Needle 0.7 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats febrile disease with anhidrosis and sudden mania. Deficiency causes acid-bi and inability to rise from sitting; excess causes hot shins/knees, knee pain, body numbness, sore/weak knees/shins, and smaller hands/feet.

Yangfu (GB38) is located 4 cun above the lateral malleolus, anterior to the bone end of Jiegu. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats low back pain feeling like sitting unsteadily or being hammered, subcutaneous swelling below the knee, tendon tension, pain in all joints, unpredictable pain location, axillary swelling, fistula/mardao, throat obstruction, knee soreness, wind bi with numbness, chills/fever with hypochondriac pain.

Xuanzhong (GB39) is located in the arterial pulse 3 cun above the lateral malleolus. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats abdominal fullness, gastric heat with loss of appetite, knee/shin pain, tendon spasms with foot flaccidity, five stranguries, damp-bi with flowing swelling, tendon tension with convulsions, pediatric abdominal fullness with loss of appetite, inability to lift the four limbs, and wind-lao with heavy body.

Qiuxu (GB40) is located in the slight depression anterior-inferior to the lateral malleolus, 3 cun from Linqi. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats head swelling, blurred vision with opacity, chest/hypochondriac fullness/pain preventing breathing, chronic malaria with chills, axillary pain, flaccidity/jue with inability to sit, hip pivot pain, sore/tetanic shins, sudden hernia, firm lower abdomen, and chills/fever.

Zulinqi (GB41) is located in the depression 1.5 cun above Xiaxi. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats vertigo and eye pain, occipital pain, heart pain and chest fullness, swelling in the supraclavicular fossa and axilla, mardao/flaccidity, severe generalized bi with unpredictable pain, asthma, evening-onset malaria, breast abscess in women, irregular menstruation, and pediatric convulsive epilepsy.

Diwu (GB42) is located 1 cun above Xiaxi. Acupuncture and moxibustion are contraindicated.

Xiaxi (GB43) is located in the depression of the bifurcated bone anterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint of the second and fourth toes. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats red outer canthus, vertigo, tension of the ocular system, itchy eyes, deafness and tinnitus, cheek/jaw swelling, chest/hypochondriac pain/fullness preventing turning, unpredictable pain, malaria with foot pain, axillary swelling/mardao, firm pain in the lower abdomen in women, amenorrhea, breast swelling/ulceration, cold in the chest like wind, vertigo, and jaw pain.

Zuqiaoyin (GB44) is located on the lateral side of the tip of the fourth toe, distance from the nail corner like a leek leaf. Needle 0.1 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats headache with irritability, throat obstruction, stiff tongue with dry mouth, sudden deafness, hypochondriac pain, rebellious cough preventing breathing, febrile disease with anhidrosis, inability to lift the elbow, tetany of the four limbs, restless feet, and carbuncles/malignant sores.

The Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian has thirteen acupoints: Dadun, Xingjian, Taichong, Zhongfeng, Ligou, Zhongdu, Xiguan, Ququan, Yinbao, Wuli, Yinlian, Yangshi, Zhangmen, which often aligns deeply with Qimen.

The Foot-Jueyin Liver Meridian has 26 acupoints on both sides. At Chou hour, it connects from Qiaoyin to Dadun at the tip of the big toe, ascends along the knee and thigh to Qimen in the abdomen, and at Yin hour flows into the Lung Meridian.

Dadun (LR14) is located at the tip of the big toe, distance from the nail corner like a leek leaf, in the center of the three hairs posteriorly. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats sudden hernia with testicular descent, frequent urination, enuresis, pain in the glans penis, jumping pain rising into the abdomen connecting to the umbilicus. Treat left by moxa right, treat right by moxa left. Also treats heart pain, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, internal heat with drowsiness, corpse-jue, continuous uterine bleeding in women, five stranguries, hiccups and belching.

Xingjian (LR2) is located in the arterial depression between the bifurcated bone of the first and second toes. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats blindness with tearing, trismus, dry throat, rebellious cough with hematemesis, heart pain with pale-black face wanting to die, chest/back pain, abdominal distension with thirst, low back pain, cold hernia with lower abdominal swelling, difficult urination, white turbidity, penile pain, epilepsy, cold extremities, irregular menstruation, red/white leukorrhea, body decay, yin-cold with chills, white urine, painful difficult urination.

Taichong (LR3) is located in the arterial pulse 2 cun above Xingjian. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats lip swelling, hoarse throat with dryness, axillary swelling/mardao, rebellious cough with hematemesis, excessive thirst, hypochondriac fullness with chills, low back pain pulling to lower abdomen, urinary frequency like strangury, hernia with lower abdominal swelling, loose stool with enuresis, genital pain, pale face with cold feet, difficult defecation, chills, fu organ swelling, pain/soreness anterior to the medial malleolus, uterine bleeding in women, sudden pediatric hernia.

Zhongfeng (LR4) is located in the depression 1 cun anterior to the medial malleolus; take the point with the foot dorsiflexed. Needle 0.4 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats unilateral throat swelling with difficulty swallowing, dry throat with excessive thirst, malaria with pale face, chills, lower abdominal swelling with periumbilical pain, cold feet, cold hernia pulling to low back pain, slight body heat, lower abdominal pain, white urine, painful difficult urination, jaundice with heavy body, pain anterior to medial malleolus, knee swelling/jue, body numbness, hernia, strangury, sudden pain, flaccidity/jue.

Ligou (LR5) is located 5 cun above the medial malleolus. Needle 0.2 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats sudden hernia with lower abdominal swelling, sudden severe lower abdominal pain, strangury, frequent belching, fear and palpitations, shortness of breath, abdominal pain, sensation of meat in the throat, back stiffness, red/white leukorrhea in women, sudden stabbing abdominal pain.

Zhongdu (LR6) is located 7 cun above the medial malleolus, in the middle of the tibia. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats intestinal wind, hernia, lower abdominal pain, uterine flooding in women due to lochia not stopping, heat in the soles, aversion to cold, inability to stand for long, damp-bi preventing walking.

Xiguan (LR7) is located 2 cun below Dubi, in the depression inward. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats sore throat, wind bi, inner knee pain pulling to the patella, inability to flex/extend.

Ququan (LR8) is located in the depression at the tip of the transverse crease under the medial condyle of the knee; take the point with the knee flexed. Needle 0.6 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats knee hernia, pain in the adductor region, hypochondriac fullness, difficult urination, strangury, shortness of breath, diarrhea, inability to lift the four limbs, body heat with vertigo, anhidrosis, knee pain with tendon spasm, mania, epistaxis, wheezing with sore throat, wind-headache, seminal emission, bloody diarrhea, genital swelling, blood mass in women feeling like hot water soaking the inner thigh upon pressure, lower abdominal swelling, vaginal prolapse.

Yinbao (LR9) is located 4 cun above the knee, between the two tendons on the medial aspect of the thigh. Moxa 3 cones. It treats low back/buttock pain pulling to the lower abdomen, and urinary incontinence.

Wuli (LR10) is located 3 cun below Qichong, in the arterial pulse in the medial thigh. Moxa 5 cones. It treats heat closure preventing urination, drowsiness, and inability to move the four limbs.

Yinlian (LR11) is located in the arterial pulse 5 cun below Qichong. Moxa 3 cones. It treats sterility in women; if nulliparous, moxa 3 cones to induce pregnancy.

Yangshi (LR12) is located 1 cun lateral to Qichong.

Zhangmen (LR13) is located 2 cun above the umbilicus, measuring 6 cun horizontally, in the depression at the end of the costal arch on the side; take the point lying on the side, curling the upper leg, extending the lower leg, and raising the arm. Needle 0.8 cun, moxa 3 cones up to 100 cones. It treats hiccups, belching, vomiting, rebellious cough or non-productive vomiting, chest/hypochondriac fullness/pain, wheezing, heart pain with irritability/heat, malnutrition after overeating, spleen-kidney qi rebellion with abdominal swelling and borborygmus, stiff spine with limb flaccidity, fearfulness with shortness of breath, jue reversal, inability to raise shoulder/arm, internal heat with good appetite, internal cold with watery diarrhea, stone water with body swelling, and various fistulas.

Qimen (LR14) is located 1.5 cun lateral to Burong, at the end of the second rib below the nipple. Needle 0.7 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats heat in the chest, hypochondriac distension, heart pain, shortness of breath, craving sour foods, large firm abdomen especially in the lower part, difficult urination, genital relaxation, spleen-kidney qi rebellion moving up and down, cholera with diarrhea, severe dyspnea, and residual diseases after childbirth in women.

The Du Mai (Governor Vessel) midline has twenty-seven acupoints: Changqiang, Yaoshu, Yangguan, Mingmen, Xianshu, Jizhong, Jinsuo, Zhiyang, Lingtai, Shendao, Shenzhu, Daodao, Dazhui, Yamens, Fengfu, Naohu, Jiangjian, Houding, Baihui, Qian Ding, Xinhui, Shangxing, Shenting, Suliao, Shuigou, Duanduan, Yinjiao. The Ren and Du vessels complete here.

The Du Mai has 27 acupoints. Located in the midline of the back, belonging to Yang.

Changqiang (GV1) is located in the depression below the coccyx at the sacrococcygeal junction. Take the point kneeling on the ground. Needle 0.2 cun, moxa 30 cones daily up to 200 cones. Avoid sexual intercourse. This is the root of hemorrhoids. Avoid cold. It treats heart pain, intestinal wind with bloody stool, five types of hemorrhoids, gan erosion, pediatric rectal prolapse with bloody stool, chronic autumn diarrhea, fright-epilepsy with convulsions, vomiting/diarrhea with fear/startle, seminal emission, blurred vision with heavy head, watery diarrhea, stiff low back/spine, chills, and epilepsy.

Yaoshu (GV2) is located at the 21st vertebral segment. Needle 0.2 cun, moxa 7 cones up to 49 cones. Avoid sexual intercourse. It treats anhidrosis, cold and numb feet, stiff low back/spine, warm malaria, and pin malaria.

Yangguan (GV3) is located at the 16th vertebral segment. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats numbness and bi syndrome of the shins.

Mingmen (GV4) is located at the 14th vertebral segment. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats splitting headache, body heat like fire, anhidrosis, convulsions with internal tension, and pulling pain in the low back and abdomen.

Xianshu (GV5) is located at the 13th vertebral segment. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats inability to flex/extend the low back/spine, accumulation of qi in the abdomen, indigestion, and dysentery. The 12th segment is named Jieji, the 10th segment is named Zhongzhu, not recorded in Mingtang.

Jizhong (GV6) is located at the 11th vertebral segment. Acupuncture and moxibustion are contraindicated. Misuse causes kyphosis.

Jinsuo (GV8) is located at the 9th vertebral segment. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats fright-epilepsy, manic running, stiff/spastic spine, and upward rolling of the eyes.

Zhiyang (GV9) is located at the 7th vertebral segment. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. It treats sore shins, heavy/painful four limbs, and anger making speech difficult.

Lingtai (GV10) is located at the 6th vertebral segment. Acupuncture is contraindicated; moxa 5 cones. It treats febrile disease, warm malaria, and anhidrosis.

Shendao (GV11) is located at the 5th vertebral segment. Acupuncture is contraindicated; moxa 3 cones. It treats stiff/spastic low back/spine, malaria, trance, sadness, forgetfulness, palpitations, alternating chills/fever, asthmatic heat, blurred vision, and headache.

Shenzhu (GV12) is located at the 3rd vertebral segment. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats epilepsy, convulsions, rage wanting to kill, chest heat with dry mouth, irritability/thirst/wheezing, headache, and retching without output.

Daodao (GV13) is located at the 1st thoracic segment. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 5 cones. It treats heavy head with vertigo, shivering chills/fever, headache with stiff spine, neck feeling like being pulled, blurred vision as if falling out.

Dazhui (GV14) is located at the midpoint of the shoulders on the upper border of the first thoracic vertebra. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 7 cones up to 49 cones. It treats five exhaustions and seven injuries, warm malaria, pin malaria, stuffiness of back/shoulders, stiff neck unable to look back, severe heat from cold damage with irritability/vomiting, wind-lao and food qi. Above, in the midline of the back, in the hollows between the spinous processes, take the points with the body bent forward.

Yamen (GV15) is located in the depression 0.5 cun above the hairline at the nape. Needle 0.4 cun, moxibustion is contraindicated.

Fengfu (GV16) is located 1.5 cun below Naohu, inside the large tendon. Needle 0.4 cun, moxibustion is contraindicated. These two points cause muteness if mistakenly moxa-ed.

Naohu (GV17) is located 1.5 cun above Jiangjian, on the occipital bone. Needle 0.3 cun, moxibustion is contraindicated.

Jiangjian (GV18) is located 1.5 cun below Houding. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 7 cones. It treats needle-like headache, neck feeling like being pulled, convulsions, epilepsy with irritability and vomiting of saliva foam occurring at any time.