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Located seven cun above the elbow, at the end of the muscle. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Alternating chills and fever (Hanre), stiffness and tension of the neck and nape (Jingxiang juji), scrofula (Luoli - tuberculous lymphadenitis of the neck), shoulder and back pain with inability to lift the arm.

Located at the apex of the shoulder; take the point by raising the arm obliquely. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Heaviness of the arm with inability to lift it, arm pain.

Outside the axilla, behind the shoulder joint; an indentation appears when the arm is raised. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Shoulder pain with inability to lift the arm.

In the depression between the bones on the shoulder, above the Quepen (LI15) acupoint, one and a half cun anterior to the prominent bone. Locate by pressing with three fingers, finding the depression under the middle finger. Also known as Bojing. Moxibustion: 3 or 7 cones. Indications: Five Exhaustions and Seven Injuries (Wulao Qishang - general chronic deficiency syndromes), stiff neck unable to look back, oppression in the back and shoulders, inability to raise both hands to the head; also for waist and hip pain due to falls or injuries, ascending Qi from Jiaojie (Hongkong foot/Charcot-Marie-Tooth-like symptoms), post-abortion cold limbs and reversal (Shouzu jue ni), cough with rebellious Qi, alternating chills and fever with shivering, dyspnea preventing recumbency.

In the depression at the junction of the clavicle in the supraclavicular fossa (Quepen). Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Pain in the shoulder and elbow radiating to the stiff neck, alternating chills and fever, pain in the supraclavicular fossa, absence of sweating, chest fullness and irritability, arm pain with inability to lift.

In the deep depression between the two bones at the shoulder apex; locate by raising the arm. Moxibustion: 7 to 14 cones, adjusted until recovery. For hemiplegia (Pianfeng bushui), may moxa up to 49 cones. Avoid excessive moxibustion to prevent arm atrophy. However, if wind disease causes weakness of sinews and bones without improvement, moxibustion is indicated regardless of potential thinning. Indications: Hemiplegia, wind-heat urticaria (Yinzhen), spasticity and stiffness of the arms and hands, inability to grasp objects, arm atrophy and weakness, soreness and pain of sinews and bones, heat in the shoulder, inability to turn the head.

Between the two bones ascending from the shoulder apex, in the depression. (Moxibustion: 5 cones). Indications: Back and shoulder pain, blood stasis in the chest, painful limitation of flexion and extension in the shoulder and arm, inability to lift the arm, shoulder pain with immobility.

At the tip of the little toe and the second toe, approximately the width of a leek leaf from the nail. Moxibustion: 3 cones. Indications: Hypochondriac pain, cough with rebellious Qi and dyspnea, vexing heat in the hands and feet, absence of sweating, tetany/spasms of the four limbs, carbuncles and sores (Yongju), headache, irritability, throat obstruction (Houbi), stiff tongue, dry mouth, inability to lift the elbow, sudden deafness.