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Treats swelling and pain in the waist and feet. Chronic persistent rashes can also be cured immediately (from *Zisheng Jing*). Acupoint: Weizhong (BL40), puncture to bleed.

Treats numbness and insensitivity from the lower waist down to the feet. Acupoint: Ciliang (BL32).

Treats the sensation of cold ice in the waist and feet. Acupoint: Yinshi (ST33).

Treats backache, heaviness in the legs, trembling inability to stand, Hongxiangjiao (podagra/gout with lower limb swelling), and swelling below the knees. Acupoint: Chengshan (BL57).

Treats severe low back pain preventing the body from rising, cold feet unable to stand for long periods, and a sensation of rocking as if sitting in a boat or carriage. Acupoint: Shenmai (BL62).

Treats pain in the lumbosacral region and swollen feet unable to touch the ground. Acupoint: Kunlun (BL60).

Treats low back pain, hemiplegia due to wind-stroke, swollen and painful feet unable to touch the ground. Acupoint: Kunlun (BL60).

Treats numbness and insensitivity in the waist and feet. Acupoint: Pangguangshu (BL28).

Treats foot pain preventing lifting, heavy lower limbs, and foot atrophy. Acupoints: Puxen (BL64), Chengshan (BL57).

Treats low back pain preventing flexion and extension, foot bi-syndrome pain, and difficulty bending or straightening. Acupoint: Diji (SP8).

Treats cold-bi syndrome, numbness in the calves, soreness and pain in the thighs and knees, swelling of the lumbosacral region, and difficulty rising or sitting. Acupoint: Fengshi (GB31).

Treats soreness and pain in the feet, inability to stand for long, heavy waist and knees making rising difficult, tendon spasms preventing flexion and extension. Acupoint: Chengshan (BL57).

Zhang Zhongwen treats heaviness in the waist preventing turning, difficulty rising or sitting, and cold-bi causing foot tendon spasms preventing flexion and extension. Moxibustion on Quchi (LI11) at the left and right sides of the Wen-tou area, three moxa cones on each of the four extremities of the feet.

When moxibusting one foot, apply two fire points simultaneously, burning just to the skin. When initial pain is felt, have two people blow on both sides simultaneously until the fire extinguishes. If mugwort is applied at Wu hour (noon) until Ren-ding Hai hour (9-11 PM), moving the zang-fu organs once or twice, or if the zang-fu organs rumble like thunder, immediate cure occurs. This is miraculous.

Treats numbness and insensitivity in the waist, legs, hands, and feet. Acupoint: Shanglian (ST37).

Treats a feeling of looseness in the waist as if sitting in water, swelling of the skin below the knees, tendon spasms, pain in all joints without fixed location, axillary swelling, wei-pi madao (scrofula), throat obstruction, knee soreness, wind-bi numbness. Acupoint: Yangfu (GB38).

Treats stiffness and spasm of the waist and knees. Acupoint: Yinjiao (RN7).

Treats diseases of the feet. Acupoints: Huantiao (GB30), Yanglingquan (GB34), Zusanli (ST36), Xiaolian (ST37), Yangfu (GB38).

Treats wind-pathogen affecting the waist and feet, inability to kneel or rise. Acupoints: Shanglian (ST37), Huantiao (GB30), Yanglingquan (GB34), Zusanli (ST36), Xiaolian (ST37).

Treats cold-bi causing pain in the calves and knees, foot and ankle spasms, upward rushing of cold qi from the feet preventing standing, heaviness in hands and feet, daily emaciation. This is called Fulian disease; moxibustion on these acupoints leads to cure and ability to kneel and rise. Acupoints: Xuanzhong (GB39), Xiaolian (ST37).

Treats inability to walk due to foot conditions. Acupoints: Dicang (ST4), Taixi (KI3).