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At three cun below the axilla, one cun forward, adjacent to the hypochondrium. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Sudden chest fullness (chest distension), inability to lie flat, panting and wheezing.

One cun posterior to the nipple, where the axilla meets the hypochondrium (Original Note: also known as Tianhui [Heavenly Meeting]). Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Alternating chills and fever, irritability and fullness in the chest and diaphragm, headache, inability to lift the four limbs, swelling of the axilla, rebellious Qi ascending, sounds in the chest, ringing in the throat.

[Image: Diagram of the Hand-Yangming Large Intestine Meridian on the Lateral Side]

On the medial side of the index finger and thumb, at a distance from the nail bed equivalent to the width of a leek leaf (Original Note: also known as Jueyang [Cutting Off Yang]). Indications: Qi stagnation and fullness in the chest, coughing with asthma and limb swelling, fever without sweating, tinnitus and deafness, alternating chills and fever with malaria, dry mouth, swelling of the cheeks and jaw, toothache with aversion to cold, stiffness and牵引 pain in the shoulder and back, pain in the supraclavicular fossa (Quepen), blindness or blurred vision. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Treat left side by selecting right points, and right side by selecting left points; symptoms resolve immediately after approximately the time it takes to eat a meal. Also applicable for chest and hypochondriac support-like fullness.

In the depression on the medial side anterior to the proximal interphalangeal joint of the index finger and thumb (Original Note: also known as Wengu [Hearing Grain]). Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Throat obstruction (Houbi) and submandibular swelling, shoulder and back pain, shivering and aversion to cold, epistaxis (nosebleed) and rhinorrhea, frequent fright, deviation of the mouth, eye injury, alternating chills and fever.

In the depression on the medial side posterior to the metacarpophalangeal joint of the index finger and thumb. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Also known as Shaogu [Lesser Grain]. Indications: Throat obstruction, sensation of a foreign body stuck in the throat, caries and toothache, lethargy with chest fullness, borborygmus and diarrhea, cold hernia, dry and cracked lips with dry mouth, asthma, urgent eye pain, upward deviation of the eyes, heat in the head, epistaxis, protrusion of the tongue, torticollis, susceptibility to fright, hot body and fever, asthma, malaria.

In the depression between the diverging bones of the thumb and index finger. Also known as Hukou [Tiger's Mouth]. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Alternating chills and fever with malaria, epistaxis, febrile disease without sweating, blurred vision, headache, caries, throat obstruction, flaccidity of the arm, facial swelling, laxity of the lips, aphonia (loss of voice), trismus (lockjaw). Acupuncture is contraindicated during pregnancy as it may damage fetal Qi. Indications also include wind-heat in the head and clear nasal discharge.

In the depression between the two tendons, superior to the center of the wrist crease. Also known as Zhongkui [Central Chief]. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Incoherent speech, excessive laughter, visual hallucinations of ghosts, irritability due to febrile disease, redness and ulceration of the eyes due to wind-pathogen, ocular nebula (cataract/opaque cornea), jue syndrome with headache, chest fullness with dyspnea, alternating chills and fever with malaria, throat obstruction with tinnitus, toothache, fright and convulsions, inability to raise the elbow and arm, scabies, eye pain, ear pain, tinnitus and deafness, sensation of needles in the throat, protrusion of the tongue and torticollis, delirious speech. Chest oppression with anhidrosis, heat in the palm, heart pain, systemic fever resembling immersion, irritability and fullness, pain at the root of the tongue.