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Located lateral to the Dahuang (SP15) acupoint, directly aligned with the umbilicus, at the end of the costal margin. To locate, lie on the side, flex the upper leg, extend the lower leg, and raise the arm (Original note: also known as Changping, Xie). Moxibustion: 100 moxa cones. Indications: Borborygmus (intestinal rumbling), abdominal fullness with audible sounds, inability to eat, hypochondriac pain preventing lying flat, irritability, heat, dry mouth, loss of appetite, chest and hypochondriac distension and fullness, panting accompanied by heart pain, inability to turn or change position, jaundice due to overeating, emaciation, and Ben Tun (running piglet syndrome), abdominal swelling with spinal stiffness, flaccidity of the four limbs, frequent fear and shortness of breath, Jue Ni (cold extremities), inability to lift shoulders and arms, cough with qi rebellion and vomiting food, hiccups and belching, regurgitation of ingested food, Heat in the Middle Jiao, distress from swallowing and smelling food odors, Cold in the Middle Jiao, severe diarrhea with undigested food, chest fullness, retching without vomitus, moist skin, Shi Shui (stone water edema), generalized edema, various fistulas.

Located in the middle of the lumbar region of the Jian Gu (iliac crest), at the root of the costal margin, adjacent to the spine. (Original note: also known as Qishu, Qifu). (Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones.) Indications: Low back pain preventing flexion and extension, alternating chills and fever with abdominal distension, pain radiating to the back causing dyspnea, dysfunction of the water passages, yellow urine, acute pain and swelling in the lower abdomen, borborygmus and severe diarrhea, pain radiating from the hip pivot, cold and spasms of the shoulder and back, pain along the medial border of the scapula, spinal rigidity and opisthotonos, generalized body pain.

Located 1.8 cun below the end of the costal margin. Moxibustion: 5 moxa cones. Indications: Hard and painful lower abdomen in women, irregular menstruation, leukorrhea with red and white discharge, tenesmus, convulsions.

Located 3 cun below the Dai Mai (Girdle Vessel). Another source states 1.5 cun below the Shuidao (ST28) acupoint. Moxibustion: 5 moxa cones. Indications: Han Shan (cold hernia) in men, retraction of the testicles into the lower abdomen causing pain, red and white leukorrhea in women.

Located 5.3 cun below the Zhangmen (LR13) acupoint. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Incessant vomiting and qi rebellion, dysfunction of the San Jiao (Triple Burner), edema, loss of appetite, incessant cough with qi rebellion.

Located 8.3 cun below the Changping point, in the depression above the Jian Gu (iliac crest). Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Low back pain radiating to the lower abdomen, shoulder pain radiating to the chest and arm causing spasm and urgency, inability to raise the arm up to the shoulder.

Located in the hollow 3 cun below the axilla. Locate by raising the arm (Original note: also known as Yuanye GB22). No moxibustion.

Located 3 cun below the Quan Xia area. This is the Large Luo vessel of the Spleen, distributing within the chest and hypochondrium, emerging between the ninth ribs. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Accumulation of large Qi in the abdomen causing inability to breathe smoothly, internal pain in the chest and hypochondrium; in excess conditions, generalized body pain; in deficiency conditions, flaccidity of all sinews.