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(There are six principal acupoints and two branch acupoints on the Large Intestine Meridian of Hand-Yangming, totaling eight points.)

Shangyang (LI1) is the Jing-Well point belonging to Metal. It is located on the radial side of the index finger, at a distance from the nail corner equivalent to the width of a leek leaf. Needle depth: 1 fen; insert upward by 3 fen. It treats sudden asthma with qi rushing upward.

Erbian (LI2) is the Ying-Spring point belonging to Water. It is located in the depression on the ulnar side behind the second joint of the index finger. Needle depth: 1 fen; insert backward by 3 fen. It treats shoulder and back stiffness and pain caused by fright, throat obstruction (bi syndrome), epistaxis, and toothache.

Sanjian (LI3) is the Shu-Stream point belonging to Wood. It is located on the ulnar side behind the third joint of the index finger, in the center of the transverse crease when making a fist. Needle depth: 1 fen; insert along the skin backward to penetrate Hegu (LI4). It treats chest fullness, borborygmus with diarrhea, throat obstruction with dry throat, asthma with scorched lips, toothache, and dental caries. It is contraindicated in pregnant women.

Hegu (LI4) is the Yuan-Source point. It is located in the artery between the metacarpal bones of the web between the thumb and index finger (tiger's mouth). It treats various diseases of the head, face, ears, eyes, nose, cheeks, mouth, and teeth; fever without sweating due to cold damage; pediatric malnutrition qi stagnation; and eye diseases.

Yangxi (LI5) is the Jing-River point belonging to Fire. It is located in the depression between the two tendons on the radial-dorsal aspect of the wrist. Insert perpendicularly downward. It treats irritability due to heat disease, headache and eye pain due to wind, and epilepsy with excessive laughter.

Quchi (LI11) is the He-Sea point belonging to Earth. It is located on the lateral side of the elbow near the auxiliary bone, at the end of the transverse crease when flexing or extending the arm; it can be located by arching both hands against the chest. It treats hemiplegia due to stroke, generalized wind-pain, sores and scabies, spasm, redness, and swelling of both hands; fever due to cold damage; and pathogenic factors lingering after the meridian cycle has passed.

Pianli (LI6) is the Luo-Connecting point of the Hand-Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, diverging to the Hand-Taiyin Lung Meridian. It is located three cun posterior to the wrist. It treats malaria with chills and fever and no sweating, blurred vision and tinnitus, facial deviation, hand pain, throat obstruction, rhinorrhea with epistaxis, ascites, and difficult urination.

Jianyu (LI15) is located in the center between the two bones where the arms connect to the shoulder blade; locate it by raising the arm. It treats hemiplegia due to stroke, spasm of the arm and hand, soreness and pain of muscles and bones, and wind-heat urticaria.

(There are five principal acupoints and two branch acupoints on the Heart Meridian of Hand-Shaoyin, totaling seven points.)

Shaochong (HT9) is the Jing-Well point belonging to Wood. It is located on the radial side of the little finger, at a distance from the nail corner equivalent to the width of a leek leaf. It treats the five types of epilepsy, heart pain, heat disease, chest fullness with rapid breathing, hand spasm and arm pain, and hot palms. Deficiency patterns manifest as sadness and fright; excess patterns manifest as excessive laughter.

Shaofu (HT8) is the Ying-Spring point belonging to Fire. It is located below the base of the little finger, directly opposite Laogong (PC8). It treats deficiency patterns of sadness, sorrow, and shortness of breath, and heart pain; excess patterns of epilepsy, delirious speech, and arm pain.

Shenmen (HT7) is the Shu-Stream point belonging to Earth. It is located at the end of the pisiform bone at the posterior wrist. It treats malaria with chills and fever, dry throat and body heat, manic speech, chest fullness and abdominal pain, reduced appetite, palpitations, shortness of breath with cough, hemoptysis, enuresis, difficulty raising the arm, and the five types of epilepsy.

Lingdao (HT4) is the Jing-River point belonging to Metal. It is located one cun posterior to the wrist crease. It treats heart pain, sadness, fear, sudden aphonia, and difficulty speaking.

Shaohai (HT3) is the He-Sea point belonging to Water. It is located on the medial aspect of the elbow, outside the large bone behind the olecranon, 0.5 cun from the tip of the elbow, in the artery within the transverse crease; locate it by flexing the elbow towards the head. Moxibustion is contraindicated. It treats headache, neck stiffness, chest fullness, irritability, and numbness and difficulty raising the shoulders and arms.

Yinxi (HT6) is located in the artery 0.5 cun posterior to the wrist crease. It treats chest fullness and heart pain, rebellious qi, aphonia and difficulty speaking, epistaxis, aversion to cold with shivering, cholera-like disorder, fright, night sweats, and childhood bone-steaming tidal fever.

Tongli (HT5) diverges to the Bladder Meridian of Foot-Taiyang. It is located one cun posterior to the wrist. It treats palpitations, anxiety, abdominal distension with reduced appetite, redness of the head and face, and paralysis of the four limbs.