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Located three cun above the elbow, with the arm extended to locate the point (Original note: also known as Qinglengyuan [Cold and Cold Abyss] or Qingling). Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Limb flaccidity, inability to lift the shoulder, difficulty in dressing, headache with chills, jaundice of the eyes, and hypochondriac pain.

Located below the shoulder on the lateral aspect of the arm, searching along the diagonal line from the axilla towards the elbow. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Alternating cold and heat with painful obstruction, headache, neck stiffness as if being pulled, inability to turn the head left or right, and sensation of Qi stagnation/fullness in the neck.

Located posterior to Bingfeng (SI12), in the depression below the large bone. Indications: Heaviness of the shoulder and arm pain, pain at the posterior margin of the elbow, and pain in the cheek and mandible.

Located posterior to the shoulder, below the large bone, at the upper margin of the scapula in the depression. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Alternating cold and heat with shoulder swelling, pain radiating to the middle of the scapula, and arm soreness with weakness.

Located at the upper margin of the scapula, three cun from the spine, in the depression. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Scapular pain with coldness extending to the elbow, alternating cold and heat pulling the neck into stiffness and rigidity, and inability to turn the head left or right.

Located at the medial margin of the scapula, two cun from the spine, in the depression. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Infant regurgitation, blurred vision, alternating cold and heat, indistinct vision, cough with Qi rebellion, and hemoptysis.

Located in the depression at the center of the curved scapula, where pressure elicits tenderness. Moxibustion: 10 moxa cones. Indications: Periarthritis around the scapula. Also indicates Qi counterflow, shoulder and arm stiffness, and painful distension.

[Image: Diagram of the Hand-Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian]

Located on the lateral side of the tip of the little finger, one fen away from the nail bed, in the depression. Moxibustion: 1 moxa cone. Indications: Heat and dryness in the mouth, dry throat, hot saliva resembling glue, malaria with chills, anhidrosis. Also indicates chills, dysfunction of the little finger, headache, bi-syndrome of the throat, tongue stiffness, convulsions, cough, vomiting, neck stiffness preventing turning the head, development of corneal opacity covering the pupil.

Located in the depression anterior to the proximal interphalangeal joint on the lateral side of the little finger. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Lacrimation, acute eye pain, tinnitus, unilateral pharyngeal swelling, dysphagia, heavy and painful arm, elbow contracture, febrile disease with anhidrosis, corneal opacity, inability to raise the arm, malarial fever, upward deviation of the eyeballs, red urine, cough, epistaxis, neck and nape pain, nasal congestion.

Located in the depression posterior to the proximal interphalangeal joint on the lateral side of the little finger. Moxibustion: 1 moxa cone. Indications: Tearing, eyelid ulceration with opacity, deafness, tinnitus, epistaxis, nasal obstruction, asthma/dyspnea with inability to turn the head, epilepsy.