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Zigong (Located in the depression 6 fen below Huagai, where Qi of the Ren Mai emerges. Take the point with the patient supine. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Fullness and distension in the chest and hypochondrium, bi-syndrome pain and bone pain, difficulty in swallowing, vomiting and rebellious Qi, vexation).

Yutang (Also known as Yuying. Located 1 cun 6 fen below Zigong in the depression, where Qi of the Ren Mai emerges. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Chest fullness, dyspnea, hypochondriac pain and bone pain, wheezing and rebellious Qi, vomiting and vexation).

Danzhong (Also known as Yuan'er. Located 1 cun 6 fen below Yutang, in the depression directly between the two breasts, where Qi of the Ren Mai emerges. Take the point with the patient supine. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Chest bi-syndrome, heart pain with fullness and vexation, cough with rebellious Qi and expectoration of pus, upper jiao wheezing with dyspnea, inability to speak).

Zhongting (Located in the depression 1 cun 6 fen below Danzhong, where Qi of the Ren Mai emerges. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Fullness and distension in the chest and hypochondrium, cold in the diaphragm, difficulty in swallowing, vomiting with food regurgitation).

The Bladder is the Fu-organ of the Kidney. There are 120 acupoints on both sides of the back (including 22 single midline points and attached points of Gaohuang, totaling 144 points). This data comes from the *Jia Yi Jing* (Classic of Absolute Value).

Qi of the Bladder meridian emerges at Zhiyin. Zhiyin belongs to Metal (Located on the lateral side of the fifth toe, about the width of a leek leaf from the corner of the nail; it is the Jing-well point where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian originates. Moxibustion is suitable during the three winter months). Qi flows into Tonggu. Tonggu belongs to Water (Located in the depression anterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the fifth toe; it is the Ying-Spring point where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian flows. Moxibustion is suitable during the three spring months). Qi pours into Shugu. Shugu belongs to Wood (Located in the depression posterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the fifth toe; it is the Shu-Stream point where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian pours. Moxibustion is suitable during the three summer months). Qi passes over Jinggu (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 Yuan-Source point where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian passes). Qi travels through Kunlun. Kunlun belongs to Fire (Located in the depression posterior to the lateral malleolus above the calcaneus; it is the Jing-River point where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian travels). Qi enters Weizhong. Weizhong belongs to Earth (Located at the central artery in the popliteal crease; it is the He-Sea point where the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian enters. Moxibustion is suitable during the three autumn months).

Zhiyin (Located on the lateral side of the fifth toe, about the width of a leek leaf from the corner of the nail. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Heavy head, epistaxis and nasal congestion, anhidrosis with vexation, heat in the soles of the feet with aversion to removing clothing, neck pain, corneal opacity, obstruction of nose and urination, malaria with chills and fever, hernia due to wind-cold, onset from the fifth toe, numbness up and down, wandering pain in the Dai Mai region of the chest and hypochondrium, seminal emission).

Tonggu (Located in the depression anterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the fifth toe. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Body pain, fearfulness, traction leading to rhinorrhea and epilepsy, chills and fever, visual impairment with frequent coughing, wheezing and vomiting of saliva, palpitations, dizziness and neck pain, fullness and vexation, aversion to cold with shivering, malaria).

Shugu (Located in the depression posterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint on the lateral side of the fifth toe. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Body pain with mania and restlessness, epilepsy with chills and fever, waist pain as if broken, fright with traction, legs feeling bound, calves feeling torn, sudden headache, body heat and pain, muscle twitching, deafness with aversion to wind, canthi ulceration and redness, inability to turn the neck left or right, hip joint pain, diarrhea with intestinal deviation, malaria originating from the leg).

Jinggu (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 cones. Indications: Malaria with chills and fever, frequent sighing, heavy head and cold feet, anorexia, foot spasms, epilepsy with mania, aversion to cold with shivering, self-biting of cheeks, hemiplegia of the waist, hip joint pain, frequent head shaking and rhinorrhea, persistent epistaxis, yinluo headache, white opacities in the eyes, spasm of the heel and buttocks, head swelling and pain, profuse diarrhea, Qi rushing upward to the heart, red and ulcerated eyes with blindness, pain starting internally, abdominal fullness and stiff neck, inability to bend or extend the back, dizziness, flaccidity and reversal, body numbness, hemiplegia of hands and feet. Treat by first selecting Jinggu, then Fengquan and Jiegu, using the reducing method. For jue-heartache with traction to the shoulder and back, pain as if touched from behind, and stooping, this is kidney-heartache. Eyes rolling back with excessive whites, nasal obstruction, yellow discharge, hematochezia).

Shenmai (Governed by the Yang Qiao Mai. Located in the depression below the lateral malleolus. Moxibustion: 3 cones (size of a nail). Indications: Waist pain preventing lifting the foot, difficulty sitting, difficulty stepping down after alighting from a cart, chilling heat in the shin, swelling of the neck and axilla, epilepsy with traction and collapse).

Jinmen (Xi-Cleft point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Also known as Guanliang. Located below the lateral malleolus. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Corpse-jue sudden death, cholera with tendon spasms, epilepsy, frequent vomiting of saliva, horse epilepsy).

Pucan (Also known as Anxie. Located in the depression below the calcaneus, accessible when lifting the foot. It is the meeting point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian and the Yang Qiao Mai. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Waist pain preventing lifting the foot, pain in the heel and behind the ankle, foot flaccidity with epilepsy and collapse, tendon spasms, corpse-jue, sudden cholera, horse epilepsy).

Kunlun (Located in the depression posterior to the lateral malleolus above the calcaneus. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Stiff spine, dizziness and headache, legs feeling bound, calves feeling torn, jue-heartache with traction to the back, spasms as if touched from behind causing stooping (kidney-heartache), chills and fever with epilepsy, visual impairment, rhinorrhea and epistaxis, malaria with excessive sweating, waist pain preventing bending and extension, eyes feeling like they will fall out, neck feeling like being pulled, strong spine affected by great wind, excessive head sweating, lower back and abdominal pain, heel swelling, upper tooth pain, heaviness of the spine and buttocks, reluctance to rise, aversion to food odors and human voices, mania, difficult labor in women, retention of the placenta, wind leakage from head to foot, epilepsy with closed mouth, sudden abdominal fullness during defecation unrelieved by pressure, belching with frequent panting).

Fuyang (Xi-Cleft point of the Foot-Yang Qiao Mai. Located 3 cun above the lateral malleolus, anterior to the Taiyang and posterior to the Shaoyang, between the tendons and bones. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Flaccidity syndrome, wind epilepsy, heavy head and dizziness, painful vexation, pain in the thigh and lateral knee bone as if torn, spasms, bi-syndrome with numbness, chills with intermittent heat, inability to lift the four limbs).

Feiyang (Also known as Jueyang. Located 7 cun above the lateral malleolus; it is the Luo-connecting point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Body lethargy and aversion to cold, shortness of breath with severe heat, aversion to noise, fearful anxiety. Select Feiyang, along with Jiegu, Linqi, and Yinluo. Also indicates tibial pain, febrile diseases with anhidrosis, lower body cold, heavy body with rebellious Qi, dizziness and headache, opisthotonos, malaria. Excess patterns present with low back and back pain; deficiency patterns present with persistent rhinorrhea and epistaxis, every-other-day mania and epilepsy, body and neck pain, joint sweating with loss of footing, cold abdominal numbness with panting and pain, hemorrhoid and anal pain).

Chengshan (Also known as Yufu and Ruzhu. Located in the depression between the muscle bellies of the gastrocnemius. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Chills and fever, prolapsed hemorrhoids, epilepsy with spasms, rhinorrhea and epistaxis, low back and back pain, sore and heavy legs, shivering unable to stand for long periods, calves feeling torn, acute foot pain and heel pain with foot spasms, lower abdominal pain radiating to the throat, difficult defecation, abdominal pain).

Chengjin (Also known as Chuanchang and Zhichang. Located in the depression in the center of the calf muscle. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Large Intestine disorders. Excess patterns present with low back and back pain, cold bi-syndrome, tendon spasms, dizziness and headache; deficiency patterns present with epistaxis, epilepsy, low back pain, warm sweating, urge to eat and walk. Chills and fever, spasms, sore and heavy legs, shivering unable to stand for long periods, acute foot swelling and pain, tendon spasms in the foot, lower abdominal pain radiating to the throat, difficult defecation, hemorrhoid and anal pain, traction between low back and back, cholera, cervical bi-syndrome with numbness).

Heyang (Located 2 cun below the center of the popliteal crease. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Bi-syndrome and jue, epilepsy, vomiting of saliva and spasms, acute foot pain, cold heel and heavy knees, low back and spinal pain radiating to the abdomen and anus, heat in the medial thigh, sudden genital pain, chills and fever, sore and heavy knees).

Weizhong (Located at the central artery in the popliteal crease. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Low back pain, heaviness from the spine to the head, visual impairment, malaria headache, cold rising from the back, initial chills followed by fever, unquenchable thirst, epilepsy with opisthotonos, heat pain along the spine, hemorrhoid and anal pain, enuresis with tendon tension, body heat with hard and swollen lower abdomen, periodic heat in the lower abdomen, difficult urination, cold in the sacrum and thighs, hip joint pain, external traction to the costal margin, internal control of the Baliao points, persistent epistaxis).

Weiyang (Anterior to the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, posterior to the Shaoyang, emerging between the two tendons on the lateral aspect of the thigh, 6 cun below Chengfu. It is the Luo-connecting point of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Alternatively, take with the body flexed. Indications: Chest fullness and distension. Excess patterns present with stranguria and urinary retention, swelling and pain in the axilla; deficiency patterns present with enuresis, acute foot pain with tendon pain, inability to urinate, pain radiating to the abdomen and waist, inability to bend or extend).

Fuxi (Located 1 cun above Weiyang, accessible by extending the knee. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Inability to lie down or stand).

Yinmen (Located 6 cun below Fuxi. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Low back pain allowing flexion but not extension, pain upon extension. Caused by heavy lifting, where evil blood accumulates).

Fucheng (Also known as Rouguan, Yinguan, and Pibu. Located in the transverse crease below the buttocks and upper medial thigh. Alternatively, in the transverse crease below the medial thigh. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Severe cold pain in the low back, spine, sacrum, buttocks, and medial thigh. Deficiency patterns present with blood movement; excess patterns present with heat pain, hemorrhoid and anal pain, swelling in the sacral vertebrae, straight passage of stool, cold in the uterus, difficult urination).

Fufen (Located 2 cun lateral to the inner aspect of the neck, below the second thoracic vertebra. It is the meeting point of the Hand and Foot Taiyang meridians. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Back pain radiating to the neck).

Pohu (Located 3 cun lateral to both sides below the third thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the patient sitting upright. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Tension in the shoulder blades, aversion to cold with shivering, neck and back pain radiating to the neck, cough with rebellious Qi, vomiting and fullness/vexation, back pain preventing looking back).

Shentang (Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to both sides below the fifth thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Shoulder pain, chest and abdominal fullness, aversion to cold with shivering, stiffness and tension of the spine and back).

Geshuan (Located 3 cun lateral to both sides of the sixth thoracic vertebra, adjacent to the inner aspect of the scapula. Pressing causes pain reported by the patient. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Axillary contracture, sudden vessel tension pulling the hypochondrium inward affecting the heart and lungs, from the neck down the spine to the twelfth vertebra; apply moxibustion immediately upon sensation for instant relief. Febrile disease with anhidrosis, chills and heat in the shoulder and back, mutual traction, body heat with cough and rebellious Qi, deficiency wheezing, rebellious wheezing, epistaxis, pain in the inner aspect of the scapula preventing bending and extension, lateral costal margin pain radiating to the lower abdomen, pediatric malabsorption, headache radiating to the chin, malaria and wind).

Geshuan (Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to both sides below the seventh thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with shoulders spread wide. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Back pain with aversion to cold, spinal stiffness, difficulty in bending and extending, difficulty swallowing, vomiting with excessive saliva).

Hunmen (Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to both sides below the ninth thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the patient sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Chest and hypochondriac distension, back pain with aversion to wind and cold, difficulty swallowing, vomiting with food retention).

Yanggang (Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to both sides below the tenth thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the patient sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Difficulty swallowing food and drink, borborygmus in the abdomen, loose stools, dark yellow urine).

Yishe (Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to both sides below the eleventh thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the patient sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Abdominal fullness and distension, diarrhea, xiao-ke (wasting-thirst), body heat, yellow complexion).

Weicang (Located 3 cun lateral to both sides below the twelfth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Abdominal distension and edema, difficulty swallowing food and drink, excessive cold preventing bending and extension).

Huangmen (Located 3 cun lateral to both sides below the thirteenth thoracic vertebra, also in the intercostal space. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Hard mass in the epigastrium, residual diseases of the breasts in women).

Zhishi (Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to both sides below the fourteenth thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the patient sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Low back pain with spinal stiffness, fullness under the ribs, hardness and tension in the lower abdomen).

Baohuang (Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to both sides below the nineteenth thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the patient prone. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Low back and spinal pain with aversion to cold, fullness and hardness in the lower abdomen, stranguria with heaviness and inability to urinate. Pressing induces the urge to urinate but flow is obstructed. Heat on the shoulders, heat in the lateral aspects of the little toes and posterior tibia/ankle. If the pulse is sunken, select Weizhong).

Zhibian (Located in the depression 3 cun lateral to both sides below the twenty-first thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the patient prone. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Low back pain with aversion to cold, difficulty in bending and extending, genital pain with heaviness, inability to urinate).

Canzhu (Also known as Yuanshu, Shiguang, Yeguang, Mingguang. Located in the depression at the medial end of the eyebrow. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Wind headache, rhinorrhea and epistaxis, brow headache, frequent sneezing, eyes feeling like they will fall out, sweating with aversion to cold, facial redness and eye pain, stiff neck preventing turning left or right, tension of the eye connections, spasms and epilepsy, mutual traction with opisthotonos and fixed gaze, dizziness and mania with insomnia, mental vexation, visual impairment, aversion to wind and cold, epilepsy onset with eyes rolling up, hemorrhoid pain).

Qucha (Also known as Bichong. Located 1.5 cun lateral to Shenting, in the hairline, where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the head upright. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Headache, body heat, nasal congestion, dyspnea, fullness/vexation with anhidrosis).

Wuchu (Lateral to the Du Mai, 1.5 cun above Shangxing. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Malaria, spinal stiffness with opisthotonos, spasms and epilepsy, heavy head with chills and fever).

Chenguang (Located 2 cun posterior to Wuchu. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Do not moxa. Indications: Febrile disease with anhidrosis, bitter vomiting with vexation, congenital blindness and blurred distant vision).

Tongtian (Also known as Tianmu. Located 1.5 cun posterior to Chenguang. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 2 cones. Indications: Heavy headache, transient stiffening and falling, nasal congestion, rhinorrhea and epistaxis, obstruction, nasal deviation with excessive discharge, rhinorrhea/epistaxis with sores).

Luoque (Also known as Qiangyang and Naogai. Located 1.5 cun posterior to Tongtian. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Blindness, epilepsy with collapse, visual hallucinations, apathy, manic running with spasms).

Yuzhen (Located 0.75 cun posterior to Luoque, 1.3 cun lateral to Naohu, rising from the occipital bone into the hairline 3 cun. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Head and neck pain, aversion to wind, anhidrosis, aversion to cold with shivering, vomiting with tension and pain in the eye connections radiating to the forehead, heavy head and neck pain, chills and fever with bone pain, dizziness and eye pain, unilateral cold headache, eye pain with blindness, neck feeling like being pulled, inability to turn the head left or right, epilepsy with vomiting of saliva and mutual traction).

Tianzhu (Located in the depression lateral to the outer edge of the major tendon at the posterior hairline of the neck. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Chills and fever with sudden contracture and epilepsy/dizziness, foot numbness, red and painful eyes, jue-headache, initial neck pain with corresponding low back/spine pain, heavy dizziness, eyes feeling like falling out, neck feeling like being pulled, mania with upward gaze, stiff neck preventing turning, sudden contracture with foot numbness, body pain as if breaking, swollen throat with difficulty speaking, pediatric convulsions and epilepsy).

Dazhu (Located in the depression 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the first thoracic vertebra. It is the meeting point of the Foot-Taiyang and Hand-Shaoyang meridians. Moxibustion: 7 cones. Indications: Epilepsy and malaria, neck pain preventing bending and extension, headache with chills, spasms. Excess Qi presents with flank fullness and paraspinal pain, heat with anhidrosis, low back and back pain, stiff spine, sore throat, distending Qi with panting, oppression in the chest, body heat, dizziness, visual impairment, stiff neck, chills and fever with stiff collapse unable to stand long, fullness/vexation with internal tension, restlessness in bed).

Fengmen (Also known as Refu. Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the second thoracic vertebra. It is the meeting point of the Du Mai and Foot-Taiyang meridians. Moxibustion: 5 cones. Indications: Head wind with dizziness and pain, rhinorrhea with obstruction, frequent sneezing with clear discharge, tearing).

Feishu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the third thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Lung chills and fever, dyspnea, cough with rebellious Qi and vomiting of saliva when lying down, chasing wheezing, chest fullness with urgent breathing difficulty, shivering, pulsating Qi in the diaphragm, heat in the chest, fullness with anorexia, anhidrosis, low back and back pain, lung distension with epilepsy and aversion to wind, intermittent chills, aphonia, worsening with cold, body heat with mania and suicidal ideation, visual hallucinations, spasms with weeping, coma/death).

Xinshu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the fifth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 2 cones. Indications: Chills and fever, heart pain radiating to the back, oppression in the chest with dyspnea, cough with expectoration of blood and excessive saliva, frequent choking with vexation, difficulty swallowing, vomiting with anhidrosis, malaria-like symptoms, visual impairment with tearing and sadness, malaria with heart distension).

Geshu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the seventh thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Aversion to cold with shivering, frequent yawning and stretching, cough with vomiting and diaphragmatic cold, difficulty swallowing, chills and fever, pain in skin/flesh/bones with shortness of breath, inability to lie down, chest fullness with bilateral hypochondriac pain, tension above the diaphragm, hypochondriac pain and abdominal distension, sudden epigastric pain, rebellious Qi with shoulder/back cold pain, anhidrosis, sore throat, abdominal pain with accumulation, lethargy, laziness, constant dampness, anorexia, heart pain after eating, generalized bi-syndrome with back pain, great wind with sweating, mania).

Ganshu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the ninth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Cough with hypochondriac fullness and urgency preventing breathing, inability to turn sideways, tension and pain in the hypochondrium radiating to the spine, opisthotonos with upward gaze and dizziness, cyclical brow headache, fright with mania and epistaxis, lower abdominal fullness, visual impairment with white opacities, cough with chest pain, tendon chills and fever, expectoration of blood and shortness of breath, nasal sourness, mutual traction of painful/tight tendons, liver distension with mania).

Danshu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the tenth thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Take with the patient sitting upright. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Chest fullness with retching without output, bitter taste, dry tongue, sore throat, difficulty swallowing).

Pishu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the eleventh thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Abdominal Qi distension radiating to the back, excessive eating with emaciation (known as shihui). Treat by first selecting Pishu, then the costal margin. Jaundice with frequent yawning, hypochondriac fullness with urge to vomit, heavy body immobile, spleen heat, intestinal gas movement, mass felt like an inverted cup, heat drawing to stomach pain, spleen cold with limb urgency and vexation/anorexia, spleen distension with phlegm-fluids).

Weishu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the twelfth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Cold distension in the stomach, excessive eating with emaciation, abdominal fullness with borborygmus, abdominal distension with wind-reversal, chest/hypochondriac fullness, vomiting with acute back pain, tendon cramps with anorexia).

Sanjiaoshu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the thirteenth thoracic vertebra. It is where Qi of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian emerges. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Headache, difficulty swallowing, borborygmus and abdominal distension with urge to vomit, intermittent phlegm).

Shenshu (Located 1.5 cun lateral to both sides below the fourteenth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Low back pain preventing bending, extension, and turning, febrile disease with chills and emaciation, pain radiating from the hypochondria, epigastric pain, heart hanging sensation, downward traction to the umbilicus, acute lower abdominal heat/pain, black complexion, visual impairment, panting/cough with shortness of breath, dark urine with bone chills/fever, difficult urination, kidney distension, splitting headache, cold feet like ice, heavy head with body heat and shivering, yinluo of the waist and limbs, urge to vomit with abdominal drumming/great cold inside, watery diarrhea with undigested food, bone chills/fever with back traction and dyspnea).