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In the depression between the little finger and the ring finger. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Shortness of breath, sensation of a polyp in the throat, dry eyes, dizziness, sudden deafness, arm pain with inability to raise or lower the arm, fearfulness, delirious speech, red face, initial stage of heat disease with dysphoria, headache with facial heat, anhidrosis, wind-cold-heat pathogens, earache, deafness, tinnitus, toothache, external swelling of the throat, cold reversal (Han Jue), malaria.

In the depression between the bones at the base of the joint of the little finger and ring finger. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Heaviness of the head, hot pain in the jaw and skull, red face, blurred vision, aversion to wind and cold, sore throat, alternating chills and fever with earache, deafness with buzzing tinnitus. Also indicates: Swollen throat, elbow and arm pain, inability to flex and extend the five fingers of the hand, heat disease with anhidrosis, corneal opacity (Yi Mo), chronic malaria.

In the depression above the wrist crease on the dorsal aspect of the hand. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones (Original note: Also known as Bieyang). Indications: Heat disease with anhidrosis, alternating chills and fever, malaria; or due to wrist sprain, inability to grasp objects, shoulder and back pain, inability to lift the arm.

In the depression two cun behind the wrist. Indications: Soreness and heaviness of the elbow and wrist, difficulty in flexion and extension, pain in all ten fingers, inability to grip. Also indicates: Tinnitus described as "chunchun hunhun" (buzzing and muffled hearing).

In the depression three cun behind the wrist, between the two bones. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Heart pain like being pierced by a spike, severe cases with cold reaching the joints of hands and feet, death if breathing ceases. Also indicates: Cough, red face with heat, bi-syndrome of the elbow joint, sore arm with axillary swelling, heat disease with anhidrosis, scrofula (Ma Dao Zhong Lou). Also indicates: Fistula. Also indicates: Scabies and sores, stiffness of the spine in women, red eyes, sore throat, sudden aphonia, cholera, inability to move the four limbs, vomiting, lockjaw, sudden muteness. Also indicates: Pain in the axilla and hypochondrium.

In the hollow space three cun behind the wrist. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: Deafness with buzzing tinnitus ("h unhun chunchun"), inability to hear, skin pain, wind epilepsy.

At the intersection of major vessels on the forearm, one cun above ZhiGou (TE6). Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones. Indications: Hypersomnia, reluctance to move the four limbs, sudden deafness, dental caries pain, sudden aphonia with inability to speak.

In the depression five cun anterior to the elbow, on the lateral margin. Indications: Shortness of breath, sensation of a polyp in the throat, sudden deafness, and toothache.

In the depression one cun posterior to the large bone on the lateral side of the elbow, between the two tendons. Obtained by flexing the elbow. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Zhen Quan said: One cun posterior to the flexed elbow, obtained by spreading the knees. Indications: Major wind disease with silence, unawareness of pain, sadness and displeasure, melancholy and confusion, malaria occurring during meals, heart pain, fright. Also indicates: Mania (Dian Bing), epilepsy (Yang Xian), protrusion of the tongue, bleating like a sheep, neck deviation, shoulder pain, flaccidity and numbness, inability to flex and extend below the shoulder, numbness of shoulder muscles, cough with qi rebellion, expectoration of pus, loss of appetite, wind-bi syndrome.