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Song of Acupoints on the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian
The Hand-Shaoyin Heart meridian originates at Jiquan (HT1), followed by Qingling (HT2), Shaohai (HT3), and Lingdao (HT4). Tongli (HT5), Yinxi (HT6), and Shenmen (HT7) are located below the palm, while Shaofu (HT8) and Shaochong (HT9) are at the edge of the little finger.

Jiquan (HT1)
Located in the inner arm, between the tendons in the axilla where the artery pulses, extending into the chest. Needle depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones.
Indications: Fullness and pain in the heart and hypochondrium, cold and paralysis of the elbow and arm, inability to control the four limbs, dry heaving, irritability, thirst, and jaundice of the eyes.

Qingling (HT2)
Located 3 cun above the elbow; take the point with the arm extended and raised. Mr. Hua (Shou Shou) stated: From Jiquan, descend along the posterior medial border of the upper arm, running posterior to the Hand-Taiyin Lung and Hand-Jueyin Pericardium meridians, passing through Qingling. This point is not recorded in the *Jia Yi Jing*. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones.
Indications: Headache, jaundice of the eyes, chills, hypochondriac pain, and inability to raise the shoulder and arm.

Shaohai (HT3) (Also known as Qujie)
Located in the depression posterior to the medial epicondyle of the humerus. Alternatively described as below the large bone on the medial side of the elbow, 0.5 cun from the end of the elbow, at the head of the transverse cubital crease; take the point with the elbow flexed towards the head. It is the He-Sea point (where the meridian qi deeply accumulates) of the Hand-Shaoyin meridian. Needle depth: 0.5 cun; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Another view prohibits moxibustion.
Indications: Alternating chills and fever, toothache, dizziness, mania, epilepsy with baa-like sounds, vomiting of saliva and froth, stiff neck unable to turn back, headache due to wind, rebellious qi, scrofula (tuberculous lymphadenitis of the neck), pain and spasm in the elbow, arm, axilla, and hypochondrium preventing elevation.
*Qian Jin Fang* states: It treats scrofula in the axilla, painful leakage in the arm, wind-bi with itching and ulceration, and inability to flex or extend. Needle depth: 0.3 cun; retain needle for 7 breaths; apply reducing method for 5 breaths.
*Xi Hong Fu* states: For heart pain and hand tremors, select Shaohai; to eradicate the root, seek Yinshi (GB31).
*Bai Zheng Fu* states: Combined with Zusanli (ST36), it treats numbness and woodiness of both arms.

Lingdao (HT4)
Located 1.5 cun proximal to the palmar wrist crease. Another view says 1 cun. It is the Jing-River point (where the meridian qi flows smoothly) of the Hand-Shaoyin meridian. Needle depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones.
Indications: Heart pain, sadness, fear, dry heaving, convulsions and spasms of the elbow, sudden loss of voice (aphonia).

Tongli (HT5)
Located in the depression 1 cun posterior to the radial styloid process on the ulnar side of the wrist. It is the Luo-Connecting point of the Hand-Shaoyin meridian, diverging to connect with the Hand-Taiyang Small Intestine meridian. Needle depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones.
Indications: Febrile diseases with headache and dizziness, facial heat without sweat, mental restlessness and vexation, sudden aphonia, palpitations, sadness, fear, and aversion to people, sore throat with bitter vomiting, deficiency with frequent yawning, shortness of breath, enuresis, swelling and pain in the elbow and arm, excessive menstrual bleeding in women, and metrorrhagia.
*Cite from Shennong Jing*: Treats dizziness and headache; moxibustion can be applied 7 times.
*Yu Long Fu* states: Treats heart palpitations.
*Bai Zheng Fu* states: Combined with Dazhong (KI4), it treats fatigue, lethargy, and desire to sleep with reluctance to speak.
Ma Danyang stated: If one wishes to speak but cannot produce sound, suffers from mental restlessness and palpitations; in excess patterns, the four limbs feel heavy, and the head, cheeks, and face become red; even when breathing is normal, there is frequent yawning, throat closure, and difficult breathing; in deficiency patterns, one cannot eat, suffers sudden aphonia, and has a lifeless complexion. A gentle insertion of the filiform needle reveals its miraculous efficacy.

Yinxi (HT6) (Also referred to as the Xi-Cleft point of the Hand-Shaoyin meridian)
Located in the pulse at the wrist, 0.5 cun proximal to the wrist crease, directly behind the little finger. Needle depth: 0.3 cun; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones.
Indications: Epistaxis and hematemesis, aphonia, cholera with chest fullness, chills, cold extremities, fright, and heart pain.
*Biao You Fu* states: Stops night sweats and treats bone-steaming tidal fever in children.
*Bai Zheng Fu* states: Combined with Erjian (LI2), it clears chills and aversion to cold. Also states: Combined with Houxi (SI3), it treats profuse night sweats.

Shenmen (HT7) (Also known as Duichong, also known as Zhongdu)
Located in the depression at the distal end of the pisiform bone, directly behind the little finger. It is the Shu-Stream point (where the meridian qi pours in) of the Hand-Shaoyin meridian. Needle depth: 0.3 cun; retain needle for 7 breaths; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Another view says 7 moxa cones. The moxa cone should be the size of a wheat grain.
Indications: Malaria with mental restlessness, desire for cold drinks, aversion to cold with desire for warmth, dry throat, anorexia, palpitations, heart pain, shortness of breath, fever with flushed face, mania with laughter, rebellious qi with hematemesis, enuresis, aphonia, amnesia, accumulation in the heart (Fu Liang), five types of epilepsy in adults and children, and arm spasms and convulsions.
*Yu Long Fu* states: Treats epilepsy and loss of spirit.
*Bai Zheng Fu* states: Combined with Shangwan (CV13), it treats mania and running away.

Shaofu (HT8)
Located in the depression between the bones distal to the base of the little finger, directly opposite Laogong (PC8). It is the Ying-Spring point (where the meridian qi flows rapidly) of the Hand-Shaoyin meridian. Needle depth: 0.2 cun; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Another view says 7 moxa cones.
Indications: Intractable malaria, chills, vexation, and fullness, shortness of breath, chest pain, sadness, fear, and aversion to people, soreness of the arm, spasm of the elbow and axilla, prolapse of the uterus (Yin Ting), pruritus and pain of the genitals, enuresis, testicular retraction, and dysuria.

Shaochong (HT9) (Also known as Jingshi)
Located at the medial corner of the nail bed of the little finger, approximately the width of a leek leaf from the nail corner. It is the Jing-Well point (where the meridian qi emerges) of the Hand-Shaoyin meridian. Needle depth: 0.1 cun; retain needle for 1 breath; Moxibustion: 1 moxa cone. Another view says 3 moxa cones.
Indications: Febrile diseases with vexation and fullness, rebellious qi, flaming up of Heart fire, red eyes, scant blood with vomiting of frothy blood, heart pain due to cold phlegm and shortness of breath, sadness, fear, and susceptibility to fright, hot mouth, sour taste in the throat, chest and hypochondriac pain, alternating chills and fever, pain along the posterior medial border of the arm, and hand spasm with inability to extend.
*Yu Long Fu* states: Can treat heart deficiency with heat stagnation.
*Bai Zheng Fu* states: Combined with Quchi (LI11), it treats fever.
*Qiankun Shengyi* states: This is one of the Ten Well points. In cases of stroke with falling, sudden coma, phlegm obstruction, unconsciousness, locked jaw, and inability to swallow medicine, urgently prick Shaoshang (LU11), Shangyang (LI1), Zhongchong (PC9), Guanchong (SJ1), Xiaose (SI1), and this point with a three-edged needle to promote the flow of Qi and Blood. It is a miraculous emergency acupoint for reviving the dying.