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The *Xi Hong Fu* (Song of Xi Hong) states: It treats diseases of the upper and lower extremities, and also treats food stagnation masses and qi lumps. It further states: For deficiency-type wheezing, one should seek Zusanli (ST36). If there is accumulation in the stomach, puncture Xuanji (CV17); this acupoint has many functions. Qihai (CV6) specifically treats the five types of strangury, and it is necessary to also needle Zusanli (ST36). To treat tinnitus like cicada chirping and severe lower back pain as if breaking, one must combine the tonification and sedation techniques on Wuhui (GV9) for optimal effect. It further states: When needling Jianjing (GB21), one must use Zusanli (ST36); otherwise, the qi mechanism will not be harmonized. It also treats lower back pain radiating to the hip. It treats foot swelling and pain, requiring the combination of Xuanzhong (GB39), Yanglingquan (GB34), Yinlingquan (SP9), Sanyinjiao (SP6), and Taichong (LR3) to regulate qi, and also treats numbness of the fingertips. For wrist and leg pain, sedate this point (referring to Zusanli ST36). Combining Fengfu (GV16), paying attention to needle depth, and seeking Zusanli (ST36) treats lingering bladder qi.

The *Tong Xuan Fu* (Song of Tong Xuan) states: It can eliminate emaciation caused by the five labors. It further states: It treats cold bi-syndrome.

The *Jie Fa* (Swift Method) states: It treats malnutrition due to poor dietary intake.

The *Tianxing Mijue* (Secrets of Heavenly Stars) states: For tinnitus and lower back pain, first select Wuhui (GV9), then Ermen (TE21) and Zusanli (ST36). If there is retained old food in the stomach, seek Zusanli (ST36) to activate the qi of Xuanji (CV17). It further states: Combining with Erjian (LI2) treats toothache, headache, and throat obstruction. It further states: Combining with Qimen (LR14) treats shanghan (cold damage) that has passed its meridian stage without sweating.

The *Si Zong Xue Ge* (Song of the Four Master Points) states: For abdominal issues, retain Zusanli (ST36).

Ma Danyang's *Tianxing Shi'er Xue* (Twelve Heavenly Star Acupoints) states: It can relieve heart and hypochondriac pain, abdominal distension with cold in the stomach, borborygmus and diarrhea, eye swelling and soreness of the knees and calves, emaciation from shanghan, qi gu (abdominal mass), and various other conditions. After the age of thirty, acupuncture and moxibustion can restore clear vision. The supplementary treatment methods state: It treats the five labors and seven injuries, inability to rise from lower back pain, throat obstruction, sudden hypochondriac pain preventing breathing, cough with excessive phlegm, foot atrophy and heat, abdominal blood stasis and edema, insufficiency of yin qi, heat disease with no sweat, frequent vomiting with dry mouth, body opisthotonos, trismus with jaw clenching, insufficiency of stomach qi leading to vomiting upon smelling food, dysentery with undigested food, xiaoke (wasting-thirst), enuresis, flatus, yang jue (yang collapse) with aversion to cold, vertigo, and difficult urination; all are suitable for acupuncture and moxibustion.

Shangjuxu (ST37, also known as Juxu Shanglian) is located three cun below Zusanli (ST36), in the depression between two tendons/bones, taken when lifting the foot. The *Hai Lun* states: The Chong Mai (Penetrating Vessel) outputs downward from the upper and lower lian of Juxu. Shangjuxu is where the Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian combines with the Large Intestine. (Shanglian belongs to the Large Intestine, Xialian belongs to the Small Intestine, as stated in the *Ben Shu* chapter and *Xieqi Zangfu Bingxing* chapter.) Puncture 0.3 cun, moxa 3 moxibustion cones. The *Jia Yi Jing* suggests puncturing 0.8 cun. The *Qian Jin Fang* states: The number of moxa cones corresponds to the patient's age.

It treats insufficiency of zang-fu qi, hemiplegia, beriberi, insensitivity of the waist, legs, hands, and feet, soreness of the calves, cold pain in the bone marrow, inability to stand for long periods, abdominal pain along the umbilicus, cutting pain in the intestines, undigested stool diarrhea, wheezing preventing walking, abdominal and hypochondriac fullness with manic running. This point primarily drains heat from the stomach and shares therapeutic effects with Qichong (ST30), Zusanli (ST36), and Xiajuxu (ST39).

Tiaokou (ST38) is located five cun below Zusanli (ST36) and one cun above Xiajuxu (ST39), taken when lifting the foot. Puncture 0.5 cun, moxa 3 cones. The *Jia Yi Jing* states: Puncture 0.8 cun.

It treats numbness of the feet and knees, cold and sour swelling pain, dorsum pedis swelling with tendon spasm, heat in the soles due to damp-bi, foot weakness and inability to grasp, and inability to stand for long periods.

The *Tianxing Mijue* states: Combining with Chongyang (ST42) and Jiegu (GB39) treats foot weakness and difficulty walking.

Xiajuxu (ST39, also known as Juxu Xialian) is located three cun below Shangjuxu (ST37), in the depression between two tendons/bones, taken while squatting and lifting the foot. Xiajuxu is where the Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian combines with the Small Intestine. It is also the downward output of the Chong Mai (Penetrating Vessel). Puncture 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones. One source says puncture 0.8 cun.

It treats heat in the stomach, scorched hair and wasting muscles, inability to sweat, shortness of breath and anorexia, sudden fright with delirious speech, throat obstruction, pale complexion, chest and hypochondriac pain, purulent bloody diarrhea, small intestine qi, hemiplegic leg atrophy, inability to put feet to the ground, wind-heat, wind-dampness, cold-bi, swelling and inability to retract the dorsum pedis, and breast abscess in women. This point primarily drains heat from the stomach and shares therapeutic effects with Qichong (ST30), Zusanli (ST36), and Shangjuxu (ST37).

Fenglong (ST40) is located eight cun above the lateral malleolus, in the depression at the outer edge of the lower tibia/fibula. It is the Luo-Connecting point of the Foot-Yangming Stomach Meridian, diverging to the Taiyin Spleen Meridian. Puncture 0.3 cun, moxa 3 cones.

It treats headache and facial swelling, throat obstruction with inability to speak, wind-ni (rebellious qi) with epilepsy and mania, seeing ghosts and laughing, jue-ni (cold limbs), stabbing chest pain, difficulty in urination and defecation, lethargy, soreness and pain of legs and knees, difficulty in flexion and extension, abdominal pain and limb swelling, and cold-dampness with cold feet.

The *Taiyi Ge* states: Combining with Shangwan (CV13) treats heart pain and vomiting, and vomiting of roundworms due to shanghan.

The *Yulong Fu* states: Combining with Feishu (BL13) treats cough with phlegm. It further states: Combining with Yongquan (KI1) and Guanyuan (CV4) can treat corpse-labor (consumptive disease).

The *Xi Hong Fu* states: It specifically treats heart pain in women.

The *Baizheng Fu* states: Combining with Jiangjian (GV19) treats unbearable headache.

Jiexi (ST41) is located 1.5 cun posterior to Chongyang (ST41), in the depression at the ankle where shoelaces are tied. One source says it is on the dorsum of the foot, directly above the junction of the great toe and second toe, in the depression. The commentary on *Ci Nue Lun* states: 3.5 cun posterior to Chongyang. The commentary on *Qi Xue Lun* states: 2.5 cun. The *Jia Yi Jing* states: 1.5 cun. It is the Jing-River point of the Foot-Yangming Meridian. Puncture 0.5 cun, retain for five breaths, moxa 3 cones.

It treats facial edema due to wind-qì, headache and vertigo with corneal opacity, upward rushing of jue-qì, wheezing, cough, and abdominal distension, insanity with vexation, weeping and convulsions, tendon spasms and cholera, heavy sensation in defecation, and swelling of thighs and knees. It also drains stomach heat causing hunger without desire to eat or postprandial fullness and distension; and treats malaria chills and fever, requiring bleeding from Luidui (ST45), Zusanli (ST36), Jiexi (ST41), and Shangqiu (SP5).

The *Shennong Jing* states: It treats abdominal distension and ankle pain, vertigo and headache; moxa 7 cones.

The *Yulong Fu* states: Combining with Shangqiu (SP5) and Qiuxu (GB40) can treat foot pain.

The *Baizheng Fu* states: Combining with Yanggu (SI4) treats palpitations and anxiety.

One transmission records: Moxibustion is effective for empty swelling of the abdomen and calves. Another transmission records: Moxibustion is effective for rebellious qi causing choking near death.

Chongyang (ST42, also known as Huiyuan, referred to as Duyang by Zhang Zhongjing) is located 5 cun on the dorsum of the foot, in the arterial pulse between the high bones, 2 cun from Xangu (ST43). It is the Yuan-Source point of the Foot-Yangming Meridian. Puncture 0.3 cun, retain for ten breaths, moxa 3 cones. The *Ci Jin Lun* states: Puncturing a large vessel on the dorsum of the foot causing unceasing bleeding leads to death. This refers to this point.

It treats hemiplegic facial swelling, deviation of the mouth and eyes, dental caries, madness from shanghan, chills with inability to sweat, hard and enlarged abdomen, anorexia, alternating chills and fever, foot atrophy and dorsum swelling; or stomach malaria with initial chills followed by fever, preference for sunlight, relief by warmth; puncture during the height of fever and bleed to immediately induce coolness.

The *Tianxing Mijue* states: Combining with Tiaokou (ST38) and Jiegu (GB39) treats foot weakness and difficulty walking.

Xangu (ST43) is located laterally between the great toe and second toe, in the depression behind the metatarsophalangeal joint, 2 cun from Neiting (ST44). It is the Shu-Stream point of the Foot-Yangming Meridian. Puncture 0.5 cun, retain for seven breaths, moxa 3 cones. One source says puncture 0.3 cun.

It treats edema of the face and eyes, water diseases with frequent belching, borborygmus and abdominal pain, inability to sweat, chills and malaria, hernia with lower abdominal pain, or wiry stomach pulse; sedating this point balances water metabolism and restores stomach qi.

The *Qian Jin Fang* states: For water diseases, moxa according to the patient's age in cones.

The *Baizheng Fu* states: Combining with Xiawan (CV10) can calm intra-abdominal borborygmus.

Neiting (ST44) is located in the depression laterally between the great toe and second toe. It is the Ying-Spring point of the Foot-Yangming Meridian. Puncture 0.3 cun, retain for ten breaths, moxa 3 cones. The *Jia Yi Jing* states: Puncture 0.2 cun, retain for twenty breaths.

It treats cold limbs, abdominal fullness with dyspnea, aversion to human voices, chills, sore throat with trismus, dental caries, epistaxis, urticaria, bloody and white dysentery, malaria with anorexia.

One transmission records: It treats persistent malaria and abdominal distension.

The *Yulong Fu* states: Combining with Linqi (GB41) regulates qi stagnation in the lower abdomen.

The *Tong Xuan Fu* states: For abdominal distension, do not delay.

The *Qian Jin Shi Yi Xue* states: Zusanli (ST36) and Neiting (ST44) are excellent for treating abdominal diseases.

The *Jie Jing* states: It treats stone gu (hard abdominal mass). It further states: For constipation, sedate this point.

The *Tianxing Mijue* states: Combining with Hegu (LI4) treats cold malaria with facial swelling and borborygmus.

Ma Danyang's *Tianxing Shi'er Xue* states: It treats cold limbs, preference for quietness and aversion to noise, urticaria and sore throat, frequent yawning and toothache, malaria with anorexia, and clears tinnitus after needling.

Lidui (ST45) is located at the tip of the second toe, distance from the nail bed equivalent to the width of a leek leaf. According to the *Ben Shu* chapter: Lidui is at the end of the second toe, medial side. The *Jingmai* and *Jingjin* chapters state it is at the middle toe. The *Miao Ci* chapter states: When pathogenic factors lodge in the Luo-collateral of the Foot-Yangming, puncture one needle on the nail bed of the middle toe and the second toe. Based on these chapters, it is evident that the area between the middle and second toes is where the Yangming meridian qi emerges. It is the Jing-Well point of the Foot-Yangming Meridian. Puncture 0.1 cun, retain for one breath, moxa 1 cone.

It treats corpse-jue with trismus and cessation of qi, resembling evil possession, abdominal fullness and edema, heat disease with no sweat, chills and fever malaria, anorexia, facial swelling, throat obstruction, dental caries, aversion to wind with nasal congestion, frequent fright and mania with preference for lying down, cold feet with knee and patella swelling pain.

The *Baizheng Fu* states: Harmonizing with Yinbai (SP1) treats restless nightmares.