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(Also known as Yuying, located 1.6 cun below Zigong (Conception Vessel 19) in the depression; it is where the Qi of the Ren Mai (Conception Vessel) emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Fullness in the chest, dyspnea, hypochondriac pain, bone pain, asthma with rebellious Qi, vomiting, and irritability.)

Danzhong (Conception Vessel 17)
(Also known as Yuan'er, located 1.6 cun below Yutang (Conception Vessel 18), directly between the two breasts in the depression; it is where the Qi of the Ren Mai (Conception Vessel) emerges. Take the position supine. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Chest bi syndrome with heart pain, irritability and fullness, cough with rebellious Qi, asthma, expectoration, shortness of breath, dyspnea, and inability to speak.)

Zhongting (Conception Vessel 16)
(Located 1.6 cun below Danzhong (Conception Vessel 17) in the depression; it is where the Qi of the Ren Mai (Conception Vessel) emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Supportive fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, diaphragmatic obstruction, difficulty swallowing food, vomiting with regurgitation of eaten food. These indications are consistent with those of Zhen Quan's *Qianjin Fang* and Yang Cao.)

Bladder Person: The Bladder is the Fu organ of the Kidney, with 120 acupoints on both sides.
(Including 22 single acupoints and the Gao Huang points plus their accessory points, totaling 144 acupoints.)

According to the *Jia Yi Jing*:
The Qi of the Bladder Meridian originates at Zhiyin (BL-66), which corresponds to Metal.
(Located on the lateral side of the little toe, about the width of a leek leaf from the corner of the nail; it is the exit point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, classified as the Jing-Well point. Moxibustion is suitable during the three winter months.)

It flows into Tonggu (BL-65), which corresponds to Water.
(Located in the depression anterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the little toe; it is the resting place of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, classified as the Ying-Spring point. Moxibustion is suitable during the three spring months.)

It pours into Shugu (BL-64), which corresponds to Wood.
(Located in the depression posterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the little toe; it is the pouring place of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, classified as the Shu-Stream point. Moxibustion is suitable during the three summer months.)

It passes over Jinggu (BL-64).
(Located in the depression at the junction of red and white flesh under the large bone on the lateral side of the foot; it is the passing place of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, classified as the Yuan-Source point.)

It travels through Kunlun (BL-60), which corresponds to Fire.
(Located in the depression behind the lateral malleolus above the calcaneus; it is the traveling place of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, classified as the Jing-River point.)

It enters Weizhong (BL-40), which corresponds to Earth.
(Located in the center of the popliteal crease where the artery beats; it is the entering place of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, classified as the He-Sea point. Moxibustion is suitable during the three autumn months. These indications are consistent with those of Zhen Quan's *Qianjin Fang* and Yang Cao.)

Zhiyin (BL-66)
(Located on the lateral side of the little toe, about the width of a leek leaf from the corner of the nail. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Heavy head, nasal congestion, convulsions, anhidrosis, irritability, heat in the soles of the feet, aversion to removing clothes, neck pain, eye nebula, dysuria, malaria with chills and fever, hernia, and diseases starting from the little toe due to wind-cold.)

Tonggu (BL-65)
(Located in the depression anterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the little toe. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Body pain, susceptibility to fright,牵引 pain, nasal congestion, epilepsy, chills and fever, eye discomfort, preference for coughing, rebellious Qi, and mania.)

Shugu (BL-64)
(Located in the depression posterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the little toe. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Body pain, mania, frequent walking, epilepsy, chills and fever, low back pain like breaking, fright,牵引 pain like knotting or tearing, sudden headache, body heat, muscle twitching, deafness, aversion to wind, eye ulceration and redness, stiff neck unable to look around, hip joint pain, diarrhea, borborygmus, malaria, etc.)

Jinggu (BL-64)
(Located in the depression at the junction of red and white flesh under the large bone on the lateral side of the foot. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Malaria with chills and fever, frequent sighing, heavy head, cold feet, loss of appetite, foot spasms, epilepsy, madness, self-biting.)

Shenmai (BL-62)
(The exit point of the Yang Qiao Mai, located in the depression below the lateral malleolus, accommodating the nail. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain, inability to lift the foot, difficulty sitting or standing as if falling from a cart, cold in the calf, chills and fever, swelling of the neck and axilla, epilepsy,牵引 stiffness and collapse. Commentary: "Qiao" refers to the movement of fire.)

Jinmen (BL-63)
(Acpoint of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, also known as Guanliang, located below the lateral malleolus. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Corpse-like fainting, sudden death, cholera, muscle spasms, epilepsy without foaming, horse epilepsy. Commentary: One version says one cun below the lateral malleolus.)

Pucan (BL-60)
(Also known as Anxie, located in the depression below the calcaneus; found by flexing the foot. It is the meeting point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian and the Yang Qiao Mai. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain, inability to lift the foot, pain in the heel and behind the ankle, foot weakness, epilepsy, stiffness and collapse, muscle spasms, corpse-like fainting, sudden cholera, horse epilepsy.)

Kunlun (BL-60)
(Located in the depression behind the lateral malleolus above the calcaneus. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Stiff spine, dizziness and headache, feet feeling knotted or torn, jue heart pain with牵引 to the back, frequent convulsions, feeling as if the heart is touched from behind, stooping (known as Kidney Heart Pain), chills and fever, epilepsy, eye discomfort, nasal congestion and epistaxis, malaria with excessive sweating, low back pain unable to bend or extend, eyes feeling like popping out, neck feeling like being pulled, strong spine, excessive sweating on the head and face, pain in the lower back and buttocks, ankle swelling, upper toothache, heaviness of the spine and back, reluctance to rise, bad breath, aversion to human voices, madness, difficult childbirth if the placenta does not come out, wind-dampness spreading from head to foot, etc.)

Fuyang (BL-59)
(The Xi-Cleft point of the Yang Qiao Mai, located 3 cun above the lateral malleolus, between the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian and the Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, between the tendon and bone. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Wei-jue syndrome, heavy and dizzy head pain, pain in the lateral aspect of the thigh and knee bone, convulsions, bi-syndrome with numbness, chills with intermittent heat, inability to move the four limbs.)

Feiyang (BL-58)
(Also known as Jueyang, the Luo-Connecting point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, located 7 cun above the lateral malleolus. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Body lethargy, chills with shortness of Qi, severe heat, nausea, palpitations, thirst, mania and epilepsy occurring every other day, body pain, neck pain, joint pain with sweating and loss of footing, abdominal numbness, epigastric pain, hemorrhoids and fistula pain.)

Chengshan (BL-57)
(Also known as Yufu or Ruzhu, located in the depression between the muscles of the gastrocnemius. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Chills and fever, prolapsed hemorrhoids, epilepsy, convulsions, nasal congestion and epistaxis, low back and back pain, sore and heavy legs with trembling, inability to stand for long periods, acute leg pain and swelling, foot spasms, lower abdominal pain radiating to the throat, difficulty in defecation, abdominal pain.)

Chengjin (BL-56)
(Also known as Chuanchang or Zhichang, located in the depression in the center of the popliteal fossa; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Excess syndrome of the Large Intestine causing low back and back pain, cold bi-syndrome with spasms, dizziness and urgency.)

Heyang (BL-55)
(Located 2 cun below the center of the popliteal crease. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Bi-jue syndrome, epilepsy without foaming, convulsions and spasms, cold at the heel, heavy knees, low back and spine pain radiating to the abdomen and yin groin, sudden yin pain, chills and fever, heavy and sore knees.)

Weizhong (BL-40)
(Located in the center of the popliteal fossa where the artery beats. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain extending from the spine to the head, heaviness, eye discomfort, malaria headache, chills starting from the back followed by fever, unquenchable thirst with sweating, epilepsy with opisthotonos and hot pain, pain along the spine, hemorrhoid and fistula pain, enuresis, tendon spasms, body heat, hardness and swelling of the lower abdomen, intermittent heat in the lower abdomen, difficult urination, cold in the sacrum and thighs, hip joint pain radiating to the lateral hypochondrium, etc.)

Weiyang (BL-39)
(Located anterior to the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian and posterior to the Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, emerging between the two tendons on the lateral aspect of the thigh, 6 cun below Chengfu. This is the Luo-Connecting point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Moxibustion: 3壮. One method says to take it with the body bent.)

Fuxi (BL-38)
(Located 1 cun above Weiyang; obtained by extending the knee. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Inability to sleep.)

Yinmen (BL-37)
(Located 6 cun below Rouli. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain allowing bending but not extension; extension causes pain. Caused by lifting heavy weights leading to the accumulation of evil blood.)

Chengfu (BL-36)
(Also known as Rouli, Yingu, or Pibu, located in the transverse crease of the gluteal fold, or one version says below the transverse crease of the yin thigh. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Severe cold pain in the low back, spine, sacrum, buttocks, and yin thigh; deficiency leads to blood movement, excess leads to hot pain, hemorrhoid and fistula pain, swelling in the sacrum, straight passage of stool, cold in the yin uterus causing dysuria.)

Fufen (BL-43)
(Located 3 cun lateral to the inner margin of the neck below the second thoracic vertebra; it is the meeting point of the Hand and Foot Taiyang meridians. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Back pain radiating to the neck.)

Pohu (BL-42)
(Located 3 cun lateral to the third thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take the position sitting upright. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Urgency in the shoulder blades, chilliness and aversion to cold, neck and back pain radiating to the neck, cough with rebellious Qi, vomiting, irritability and fullness, back pain unable to turn the head.)

Shentang (BL-44)
(Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to the fifth thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Shoulder pain, chest and abdominal fullness, chilliness, stiffness and rigidity of the spine and back.)

Geguan (BL-45)
(Located 3 cun lateral to the sixth thoracic vertebra; pressing here causes pain in the patient, indicating it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Axillary spasm, sudden tension pulling the hypochondrium inward to the heart and lungs, corresponding to the twelve vertebrae from the neck to the spine; moxibustion here brings immediate relief, anhidrosis in febrile diseases, chills and heat in the shoulders and back,牵引 body heat, cough with rebellious Qi, deficiency asthma, rebellious Qi, nasal congestion and epistaxis, pain in the medial aspect of the scapula unable to bend or extend, hypochondrium radiating to the lower abdomen causing distension and pain, pediatric food stagnation headache radiating to the chin, malaria and wind syndromes.)

Hunmen (BL-47)
(Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to the ninth thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take the position sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Chest and hypochondriac distension and fullness, back pain with aversion to wind and cold, difficulty swallowing food, vomiting without retention.)

Yanggang (BL-48)
(Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to the tenth thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take the position sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Difficulty swallowing food and drink, borborygmus in the abdomen, loose stools, dark yellow urine.)

Yishe (BL-49)
(Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to the eleventh thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take the position sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Abdominal fullness, bloating, diarrhea, xiao-ke (wasting-thirst), body heat, yellow complexion.)

Weicang (BL-50)
(Located 3 cun lateral to the twelfth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Abdominal bloating, edema, difficulty swallowing food and drink, excessive cold, inability to bend or extend.)

Huangmen (BL-51)
(Located 3 cun lateral to the thirteenth thoracic vertebra, between the ribs. Moxibustion: 30壮. Indications: Hard mass in the epigastrium, residual diseases of the breasts in women.)

Zhishi (BL-52)
(Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to the fourteenth thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take the position sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain, spinal stiffness, fullness under the hypochondrium, hardness and urgency in the lower abdomen.)

Baohuang (BL-53)
(Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to the nineteenth thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take the position prone. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back and spine pain, aversion to cold, fullness and hardness in the lower abdomen, strangury, heaviness below with inability to urinate, desire to urinate but涩 inability to pass when pressed, heat on the shoulders, heat in the lateral aspect of the little toes of the hands and feet and behind the tibial ankles; if the pulse is sunken, treat with Weizhong, etc.)

Zhibian (BL-54)
(Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to the twenty-first thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take the position prone. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Cold in the low back and legs, difficulty in bending and extending, yin pain, heaviness below with inability to urinate.)

Canzhu (BL-1)
(Also known as Yuanshu, Shiguang, Yeguang, Mingguang, located in the depression at the medial end of the eyebrow; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Wind headache, nasal congestion, epistaxis, and dizziness.)

Qucha (BL-8)
(Also known as Bichong, 1.5 cun lateral to Shenting (GV-24), in the hairline; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Keep the head straight. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Headache, body heat, nasal obstruction with difficult breathing, irritability and fullness, anhidrosis.)

Wuchu (BL-3)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to Shangxing (GV-23) along the Du Mai; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Spinal stiffness and opisthotonos, convulsions, epilepsy, heavy head, chills and fever.)

Chenguang (BL-7)
(Located 2 cun posterior to Wuchu (BL-3); it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Do not moxa. Indications: Febrile disease with anhidrosis and bitter vomiting, irritability, white nebula in the eyes, blurred distant vision.)

Tongtian (BL-7)
(Also known as Tianbai, 1.5 cun posterior to Chengguang (BL-7); it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Heavy headache, stiffness and collapse, nasal obstruction, nasal congestion and epistaxis, blockage, deviation of the mouth and eyes, excessive discharge, nasal congestion and epistaxis with sores.)

Luoque (BL-8)
(Also known as Qiangyang or Gaogai, running posteriorly 1.5 cun behind Tongtian (BL-7); it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Blindness, epilepsy with stiffness and collapse, visual hallucinations, confusion and unhappiness, wild running, convulsions.)

Yuzhen (BL-9)
(Located 0.75 cun posterior to Luoque (BL-8), 1.3 cun lateral to Naohu (GV-17), rising flesh on the occipital bone entering the hairline 3 cun; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Head and neck pain, aversion to cold, feeling of pulling.)

Tianzhu (BL-10)
(Located in the depression outside the lateral margin of the great tendon at the posterior hairline of the neck; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Chills and fever, sudden stiffness, epilepsy and dizziness, weak feet unable to support the eyes, red and painful eyes, jue headache, neck pain preceding low back and spine response, heavy dizzy headache, eyes feeling like popping out, neck feeling like being pulled, madness, upward gaze, stiff neck unable to look around, sudden stiffness, insensibility of the feet, body pain as if broken, swollen throat with difficulty speaking, pediatric convulsions and epilepsy.)

Dazhu (BL-11)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the depression below the first cervical vertebra of the neck; it is the meeting point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian and the Hand-Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian. Moxibustion: 7壮. Indications: Epilepsy without foaming, malaria, neck and shoulder pain unable to look back, stiff neck, chills and fever, stiffness and collapse, inability to stand for long periods, irritability and fullness, internal urgency, restlessness.)

Fengmen (BL-12)
(Also known as Refu, located 1.5 cun lateral to the second thoracic vertebra; it is the meeting point of the Du Mai and the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Dizzy and painful head, nasal congestion and difficulty breathing, frequent sneezing with clear discharge.)

Feishu (BL-13)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the third thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Lung chills and fever, inability to lie down while breathing, cough with rebellious Qi, foaming, asthma, chasing breath, chest fullness, urgency in the back and chest, difficult breathing, tremors, pulsating vessels, heat in the chest diaphragm, supportive fullness, loss of appetite, anhidrosis, low back and back pain, lung distension, epilepsy, aversion to wind, intermittent chills, inability to speak, worsening with cold, body heat, madness, suicidal ideation, visual hallucinations, convulsions, weeping, death with unconsciousness.)

Xinshu (BL-15)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the fifth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Chills and fever, heart pain牵引 to the back, oppression in the chest with dyspnea, coughing and spitting blood and saliva, irritability with frequent choking, difficulty swallowing, vomiting and rebellious Qi, anhidrosis, malaria-like symptoms, tearing, sadness, malaria, heart distension.)

Geshu (BL-17)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the seventh thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Chilliness and trembling, frequent yawning and stretching, cough with vomiting, diaphragmatic cold with inability to swallow food and drink, chills and fever, pain in skin, flesh, and bones, shortness of Qi,嗜睡 and lethargy, constant dampness, heart pain, generalized bi-syndrome, body-wide pain, severe wind with sweating, mania.)

Ganshu (BL-18)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the ninth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Cough with hypochondriac fullness and urgency, dyspnea, inability to turn sideways, hypochondrium牵引 to the umbilicus, tendon spasms and pain, opisthotonos, upward gaze, dizziness with眉 pain, fright and madness, epistaxis, lower abdominal fullness, white nebula in the eyes, cough with chest pain, tendon chills and fever, hemoptysis, shortness of Qi, nasal sourness, acute tendon pain with mutual牵引, liver distension, mania.)

Danshu (BL-19)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the tenth thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take the position sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Chest fullness, vomiting with no relief, bitter taste, dry tongue, difficulty swallowing.)

Pishu (BL-20)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the eleventh thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Abdominal Qi distension牵引 to the spine, excessive eating with emaciation known as Shi-hui, first treat Pishu then Ji Xie, jaundice, frequent yawning, hypochondriac fullness, desire to vomit, heavy body immobility, spleen heat, Large Intestine Qi rotation, feeling like an inverted cup upon pressure, heat牵引 stomach pain, spleen cold, limb urgency, irritability, loss of appetite, bi-syndrome and distension.)

Weishu (BL-21)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the twelfth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Cold distension in the chest, excessive eating with emaciation, abdominal fullness with borborygmus, wind-jue in the abdomen, chest and hypochondriac supportive fullness, vomiting, spinal urgency and pain, tendon spasms, difficulty swallowing.)

Sanjiaoshu (BL-22)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the thirteenth thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Headache, difficulty swallowing, abdominal borborygmus, bloating, desire to vomit, intermittent diarrhea.)

Shenshu (BL-23)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the fourteenth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain unable to bend, extend, or turn, chills and fever, excessive eating with emaciation, pain牵引 from the two hypochondria, lower heart jiao pain with hanging sensation, downward牵引 to the umbilicus and lower abdomen with urgent hot pain, dark face, white nebula in the eyes, asthma and cough, shortness of Qi, slippery and dark urine, bone chills and fever, difficult defecation, kidney distension, wind headache like breaking, cold feet like water, heavy head, body heat with tremors, lumbago and limb weakness, desire to vomit, abdominal鼓胀, severe cold with洞泄, undigested food, bone chills and fever牵引 to the back with dyspnea.)

Dachangshu (BL-25)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the sixteenth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Large Intestine Qi rotation, feeling like an inverted cup upon pressure, difficulty swallowing, frequent choking, intestinal borborygmus, abdominal swelling, sudden chills.)

Xiaochangshu (BL-27)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the eighteenth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Lower abdominal hot pain牵引 to the testicles and low back, hernia pain rushing to the heart, stiff low back and spine, difficult and dark yellow urination, dry mouth, difficulty in defecation and urination, strangury, hemorrhoids.)

Pangguangshu (BL-28)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the nineteenth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Heat,牵引, anhidrosis, opisthotonos, pain inside the sacrum and buttocks resembling malignant malaria, stiff low back and spine pain牵引 to the back, difficulty bending and extending the lower abdomen, inability to breathe while lying back, heaviness and paralysis, inability to lift the sacrum, dark urination, cold and insensitivity from the low back to the feet, inability to sit or rise.)

Zhonglunei Shu (BL-29)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the twentieth thoracic vertebra, arising flesh beside the spine. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain unable to bend or extend, chills and fever, opisthotonos,牵引, abdominal distension, axillary spasm, back discomfort, pain牵引 to the hypochondrium and inward to the heart, starting from the neck counting the vertebrae beside the spine; if painful upon pressure, moxibustion brings immediate relief.)

Baihuan Shu (BL-30)
(Located 1.5 cun lateral to the twenty-first thoracic vertebra; it is where the Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Do not moxa. Indications: Insensitivity from the low back and spine to the feet, yellow urine.)

Shangliao (BL-31)
(Located 1 cun below the first sacral foramen beside the spine; it is the collateral of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian and the Foot-Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back and spine pain with clarity, frequent stooping, testicular jumping and drawing, chills and fever, anhidrosis in febrile diseases, malaria, female sterility, uterine prolapse with incontinence of white discharge.)

Ciliao (BL-32)
(Located in the second sacral foramen beside the spine. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain with discomfort unable to bend or extend, insensitivity from the low back to the feet, cold in the spine, waist, and back; first treat Quepen then Weilü and the Eight Liao points, female red and white leukorrhea, epigastric accumulation and distension.)

Zhongliao (BL-33)
(Located in the third sacral foramen beside the spine. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Jueyin knotting causing low back pain, difficult defecation, undigested diarrhea, cold in the sacrum, female red leukorrhea with white gas, strangury, scanty menstruation, male strangury, Small Intestine distension.)

Xialiao (BL-34)
(Located in the fourth sacral foramen beside the spine. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Low back pain radiating to the lower abdomen, female incontinence of pale fluid, red leukorrhea, vulvar itching pain radiating to the lower abdomen, testicular牵引, inability to bend or extend, abdominal borborygmus, diarrhea.)

Huiyang (GV-35)
(Also known as Liji, located on both sides of the coccyx; it is where the Qi of the Du Mai emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Cold in the five zang organs and abdomen, projectile diarrhea, intestinal bleeding.)

Suliao (GV-28)
(Also known as Mianyu, located at the tip of the nasal bridge; it is where the Qi of the Du Mai emerges. Do not moxa. Indications: Nasal congestion, runny nose,悬痈 and polyps inside, blockage preventing airflow, loss of smell.)

Shenting (GV-24)
(Located 0.5 cun inside the hairline, directly above the nose; it is the meeting point of the Du Mai, Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, and Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian. Moxibustion: 3壮. Indications: Cold in the brain, nasal congestion, tearing, epilepsy, foaming, wind dizziness, frequent vomiting, irritability, malaria with chills and fever, headache, asthmatic breathing, inability to see.)

Shangxing (GV-23)
(Located 1 cun inside the hairline on the midline of the skull above the nose, in a depression accommodating a bean; it is where the Qi of the Du Mai emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Wind dizziness, frequent vomiting, irritability and fullness, blue complexion, malaria, nasal congestion and epistaxis, anhidrosis in febrile diseases, eye pain with inability to see, facial swelling, epilepsy. Generally, when Shangxing is indicated, first treat Xinhui then Tianyou and Fengchi. Zhen Quan says do not moxa excessively.)

Xinhui (GV-22)
(Located 1 cun posterior to Shangxing (GV-23) in the depression; it is where the Qi of the Du Mai emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Wind dizziness, frequent vomiting, irritability and fullness, headache, blue complexion, epilepsy, foaming, sudden stiffness and collapse, aversion to wind and cold, red and swollen face.)

Qian Ding (GV-21)
(Located 1.5 cun posterior to Xinhui (GV-22) in the bone depression; it is where the Qi of the Du Mai emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Wind dizziness, closing of the eyes, aversion to wind and cold, red and swollen face, pediatric convulsions and epilepsy.)

Baihui (GV-20)
(Also known as Sanyang Wuhui, located 1.5 cun posterior to Qianding (GV-21) in the center of the scalp hair whorl, in a depression accommodating the finger; it is the meeting point of the Du Mai and the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Malaria, epilepsy, no foaming, tinnitus, gout in the neck and head, heavy head, eyes feeling like popping out, inability to look left or right.)

Houding (GV-19)
(Also known as Jiaochong, located 1.5 cun posterior to Baihui (GV-20) on the occipital bone; it is where the Qi of the Du Mai emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Wind dizziness, dizziness, cranial pain, blurred vision, aversion to wind, stiffness.)

Qiangjian (GV-18)
(Commentary: Qiangjian is sometimes treated with 7壮 moxibustion.)
(Also known as Dayu, located 1.5 cun posterior to Houding (GV-19); it is where the Qi of the Du Mai emerges. Moxibustion: 5壮. Indications: Pricking headache unable to move, neck feeling like being pulled, inability to look left or right, epilepsy, wild running, convulsions, shaking head, mouth deviation, stiff neck.)

Naohu (GV-17)
(Also known as Zafeng or Helu, located on the occipital bone 1.5 cun posterior to Qiangjian (GV-18); it is the meeting point of the Du Mai and the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Do not moxa. Indications: Red and painful eyes unable to see, red and swollen face, inability to look back at the head and neck.)

Fengfu (GV-16)
(Also known as Sheben, 1 cun inside the posterior hairline, within the great tendon in the depression; it is the meeting point of the Du Mai and the Yang Wei Mai. Do not moxa. Indications: Headache, stiff neck unable to look around or sideways, dizziness, dyspnea, stiff tongue with difficulty speaking, madness, excessive talking, wild running, suicidal ideation, upward visual hallucinations, sudden aphasia, throat pain, insensibility of the feet.)

Yinmen (GV-15)
(Also known as Hengshe or Sheyan, located in the depression at the posterior hairline of the neck where the tongue is tied; it is the meeting point of the Du Mai and the Yang Wei Mai. Take the position looking up. Do not moxa, as it causes aphasia. Indications: Stiff neck, tongue issues, opisthotonos.)

Dazhui (GV-14)