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Houding (GV19): Located 1.5 cun below Baihui (GV20). Needle 0.4 cun, moxa 5 cones. Indicated for wind vertigo (vertigo caused by wind pathogen), blurred vision, pain in the vertex and cranium, aversion to wind and cold, reversal of heat from all Yang meridians, epilepsy, vomiting.

Baihui (GV20): Located 1.5 cun above Qian Ding (GV21), in the center of the vertex where hair whorls meet. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 150 cones; after moxibustion, pause for three to five days. Prick the surrounding area with a three-edged needle to induce bleeding, then wash with well water to promote Qi circulation. Frequent moxibustion may cause Qi to rise excessively, leading to blurred vision. Indicated for rectal prolapse, wind epilepsy, Qing Feng internal obstruction and Heart Wind, opisthotonos, crying like a sheep, incoherent speech, sudden death upon attack, foaming at the mouth, stifling heat in the heart, head wind with somnolence, irritability, palpitations, amnesia, loss of taste, facial flushing after drinking alcohol, heavy head with nasal congestion, tearing, tinnitus, and deafness.

Qianding (GV21): Located 1.5 cun above Xinhui (GV22), in the bony depression. Needle 0.4 cun, moxa 3 cones. Indicated for wind-heat headache, head swelling, wind epilepsy, pediatric convulsive epilepsy, red and swollen face, profuse clear nasal discharge, neck pain, and dizziness.

Xinhui (GV22): Located 1 cun above Shangxing (GV23). Contraindicated for needling; moxa 14 cones (two sets of seven). Indicated for nasal congestion with anosmia, head wind pain with dandruff, somnolence, convulsive epilepsy with upward gaze and inability to recognize people, dizziness, and facial swelling.

Shangxing (GV23): Located 0.5 cun above Shenting (GV24). Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones, up to 150 cones. Excessive moxibustion causes Qi to rise, leading to blurred vision. Indicated for head wind, head swelling, skin swelling, headache, facial swelling, nasal congestion, dizziness, eyeball pain, phlegm-malaria with chills, and febrile disease with anhidrosis.

Shenting (GV24): Located 0.5 cun above the anterior hairline, directly opposite the tip of the nose. Contraindicated for needling; misuse leads to mental disorder and blurred vision. Moxa 14 cones, up to 100 cones. Indicated for wind epilepsy, manic epilepsy with bleating sounds, opisthotonos, disheveled hair with singing and crying, palpitations with insomnia, panting and thirst, headache with blurred vision, tearing, and clear nasal discharge.

Suliao (DU26): Located in the depression at the apex of the nose. Needle 0.3 cun. Contraindicated for moxibustion.

Shuigou (DU26 / Renmai intersection context, actually DU26 is Renzhong/Shuigou): Located in the middle of the philtrum, directly below the nasal apex, aligned with the lips. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. Indicated for diabetes mellitus (Xiao Ke), edema with body swelling, epilepsy with alternating laughter and crying, trismus, facial swelling with lip twitching, lung wind feeling like insects crawling, chills and fever with headache, panting and thirst, inability to see, anosmia, trismus, acute stroke, and facial swelling.

Duanduan (CV16): Located on the tip of the upper lip. Moxa 3 cones. Indicated for stiffness of the lips, caries pain in the upper teeth, epilepsy with foaming, yellow urine, dry tongue with diabetes mellitus, and persistent epistaxis.

Yinjiao (DU28): Located in the center of the gum line inside the upper lip, intersection of Ren and Du meridians. Can be needled in reverse direction. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. Indicated for nasal obstruction with dyspnea, facial paralysis, rhinorrhea, rhinitis with epistaxis and sores, nasal polyps, pain in the nasal tip and forehead, nasal ulceration, trismus, stiff neck as if pulled, facial flushing, cheek pain, heart vexation and pain, neck stiffness. Ineffective for chronic pediatric facial sores. All above points are on the midline of the head.

The Ren Meridian starts at Yin Hui, passes through Qugu, Zhongji, Guanyuan, Ruishao (likely a textual variant or specific location near Guanyuan), Shimen, Qihai, Yinjiao, Shenque, Shuifen, Xiawan, Jianli, Zhongwan, Shangwan, Jueque, Jiutui, below the xiphoid process, Zhongting, Danzhong, Yutang, Zigong, Huagai, Xuanji, Tiantu (at the larynx), Lianquan, and Chengjiang (in the depression below the lower lip).

The Ren Meridian has twenty-four acupoints, located on the midline of the abdomen, belonging to the Yin meridians.

Huiyin (CV1): Located between the anus and the anterior yin (genitals). Needle 2 cun, moxa 3 cones. Indicated for hemorrhoids communicating with the yin (fatal prognosis), various diseases of the yin, pulling pain between front and back, urinary and fecal retention, cold invading the heart from the yin, and amenorrhea in women.

Qugu (CV2): Located 1 cun below Zhongji (CV3), in the depression at the pubic hairline. Needle 1.5 cun, moxa 5 cones. Indicated for urinary distension, blood strangury with difficult urination, hernia with lower abdominal pain, and leukorrhea (red and white discharge) in women.

Zhongji (CV3): Located 4 cun below the umbilicus. Needle 1.2 cun, moxa 21 cones daily, up to 300 cones. Indicated for strangury, red urine, urethral pain, hard masses below the umbilicus; in women, prolonged lochia leading to hernia and masses, irregular menstruation, blood clots, spasmodic abdominal hernia, amenorrhea, breast disorders, post-sterilization vaginal itching, cervical malposition, cold sensation in the lower abdomen, Rushing Qi attacking the heart, hunger without appetite, abdominal distension, amenorrhea, dysuria, seminal emission, delirium, corpse-like rigidity, and vexing pain.

Guanyuan (CV4): Located 3 cun below the umbilicus. Needle 2 cun, moxa 7 cones daily, up to 30 cones, or 300 cones over ten days. Indicated for lower abdominal pain, blood stasis masses resembling an inverted cup, leukorrhea, prolonged postpartum lochia, blocked birth canal, hypochondriac fullness, lower abdominal heat and unilateral pain, thirty-six types of disorders below the umbilicus, urinary retention, intestinal hematuria, bladder torsion, Qi strangury, Blood strangury, Stone strangury, frequent urination, intractable diarrhea and dysentery, stone ascites, Rushing Qi entering the lower abdomen, acute hernia pain, alternating chills and fever with headache.

Shimen (CV5): Also known as Dantian, located 2 cun below the umbilicus. Needle 0.5 cun, moxa 14 cones, up to 100 cones. Moxibustion here sterilizes women. Indicated for constipation with Qi stagnation, hard and full painful abdomen radiating to the yin, urinary retention with lower abdominal tension and acute pain with sweating, subcutaneous edema, thickened lower abdominal skin, yellow-red urine, abdominal fullness with anorexia, indigestion, vomiting, Rushing Qi entering the lower abdomen, wandering hernia affecting the five zang organs, periumbilical hernia pain, chest-choking breathlessness.

Qihai (CV6): Located 1.5 cun below the umbilicus. Needle 1.2 cun, moxa 30 cones, 100 cones for the elderly. Indicated for deficiency and exhaustion of organ Qi, all Qi disorders, wandering hernia in the lower abdomen affecting the five zang organs, severe abdominal pain, cold Qi rushing to the heart, palpitations with insomnia, prolonged postpartum lochia, periumbilical pain, Qi condensation forming masses resembling an inverted cup, red and scanty urine.

Yinjiao (CV7): Located 1 cun below the umbilicus. Needle 0.8 cun, moxa 21 cones daily, up to 700 cones. Indicated for heat below the umbilicus, water-Qi pain like knife twisting, masses resembling an inverted cup, irregular menstruation in women, metrorrhagia and leukorrhea, prolonged postpartum lochia, periumbilical cold pain, cold hernia below the umbilicus.

Shenque (CV8): The umbilicus itself. Contraindicated for needling; moxa 100 cones, 5-7 cones for infants. Indicated for abdominal distension with periumbilical pain, edema and tympanites, borborygmus sounding like water, chronic cold and deficiency, intractable diarrhea, and continuous infantile milk diarrhea.

Shuifen (CV9): Located 6 cun below Jiutui (CV10). Contraindicated for needling; moxa 7 cones daily, up to 400 cones. For edema, needle 1 cun and moxa for excellent results. Indicated for edema and abdominal distension, hard painful abdomen, periumbilical Qi rushing to the chest causing breathlessness.

Xiawan (CV10): Located 5 cun below Jiutui (CV10). Needle 1 cun, moxa 14 cones daily, up to 200 cones. Indicated for stomach-spleen disharmony, anorexia, hard intestines with abdominal pain, gastric distension and masses, pulsating vessels, progressive emaciation, indigestion.

Jianli (CV11): Located 4 cun below Jiutui (CV10). Needle 0.6 cun. Contraindicated for moxibustion.

Zhongwan (CV12): Located 3 cun below Jiutui (CV10). Needle 1.2 cun, moxa 14 cones daily, cumulative up to 100 cones. Indicated for head heat and yellow eyes, rhinitis with epistaxis, pulling pain between back and heart, fluid retention with panting and distension, hard painful hypochondrium, cold injury from overeating, indigestion, abdominal heat with thirst, excessive saliva with roundworms, abdominal distension with hard stool, regurgitation and cholera, heart pain, warm malaria, epidemic cold damage, Rushing Qi from excessive reading, chest oppression with Fuliang Qi resembling an inverted cup, emotional injury, painful Qi accumulation in the abdomen forming abscesses moving up and down, hernia Qi rushing to the chest, coma.

Shangwan (CV13): Located 2 cun below Jiutui (CV10). Needle 0.8 cun, moxa 14 cones daily, up to 100 cones, double if ineffective. Indicated for heart vexation and heat, distension with anorexia, cholera with vomiting and diarrhea, heart pain with insomnia, Heart Wind, palpitations, stifled hiccups, Fuliang Qi, Rushing Qi, wind epilepsy, febrile disease with heat and anhidrosis, three parasites, excessive saliva.

Jueque (CV14): Located 1 cun below Jiutui (CV10). Needle 1.2 cun, moxa 7 cones daily, up to 49 cones. Indicated for heart vexation, febrile disease, phlegm-fluid in the chest, Xiben with hemoptysis, madness with incoherent speech or bleating, anorexia with weakness, various heart pains, worm pain, gu poison, cholera with unconsciousness, abdominal fullness, acute pain with sweating, inability to raise arms.

Jiutui (CV15): Located 0.5 cun below the xiphoid process; if absent, measure 1 cun down from the bifurcation of the sternum, named for its shape resembling a magpie's tail. Contraindicated for needling and moxibustion. Points on the abdominal midline above are taken in an upright position.

Zhongting (CV16): Located 1 cun above Jiutui (CV15) and 1.6 cun below Danzhong (CV17), in the depression. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. Indicated for chest and hypochondriac fullness, vomiting and reflux, inability to swallow food.

Danzhong (CV17): Located 1.6 cun below Yutang (CV18), in the depression midway between the nipples horizontally. Not suitable for needling; moxa 7 cones, up to 49 cones. Indicated for lung abscess with cough and rebellious Qi, expectoration of pus with anorexia, chest fullness as if obstructed.

Yutang (CV19): Located 1.6 cun below Zigong (CV20), in the depression. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. Indicated for chest fullness with panting, precordial pain, vomiting with rebellious Qi and vexation, vomiting of cold phlegm.

Zigong (CV21): Located 1.6 cun below Huagai (CV22), in the depression. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. Indicated for chest and hypochondriac fullness and pain, precordial pain, inability to eat, vomiting with rebellious Qi, vexation.

Huagai (CV23): Located 1.6 cun below Xuanji (CV24), in the depression. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. Indicated for chest and hypochondriac fullness, pain radiating to the chest, cough with rebellious Qi, panting with inability to speak.

Xuanji (CV25): Located 1 cun below Tiantu (CV22), in the depression. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 5 cones. Indicated for chest skin fullness and pain, throat bi with swelling, inability to swallow liquids. The six points on the anterior chest midline are issued by the Ren Meridian and are taken in a supine position.

Tiantu (CV22): Located 1 cun below the laryngeal prominence, in the hollow depression, intersection of the Yin Linking Vessel and Ren Meridian. Needling should be directed downwards. Needle 1 cun, moxa 3 cones. Indicated for cough with rebellious Qi, choking and chest obstruction, frog-like sounds in the throat, lung abscess with purulent bloody sputum, Qi obstruction, hot sores in the throat preventing eating, blue veins along the sides of the tongue, sudden fright with airway blockage, throat bi with dryness, cough with panting, shoulder and back pain, and neck scrofula.

Lianquan (CV23): Located between the chin, larynx, and base of the tongue. Needle 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. Indicated for sublingual swelling with difficulty speaking, convulsions, excessive saliva, cough with shortness of breath, panting with foamy vomit, trismus, retraction of the tongue root, difficulty swallowing.

Chengjiang (CV24): Located in the depression below the lower lip, taken with the mouth open. Needle 0.2 cun, moxa 3 or 49 cones, pausing 4-5 days. Excessive moxibustion may sever the Yangming pulse, causing wind disease to persist. Moxa cones should not exceed 1.5 fen in size. Indicated for hemiplegic facial paralysis, facial swelling and wind, inability to open the mouth, oral ulcers, dizziness and blindness, yellow or incontinent urine, diabetes mellitus with polydipsia, and sudden aphonia.

The above meridian content was revised based on old texts of *Mingtang*, using seven-character lines. Treatment methods in notes follow *Tongren Jiuxue Zhenjiu Jing*. Acupuncture depth and moxibustion quantity follow *Suwen*. Unrecorded original contents were not forcibly annotated.