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Diagram of the Anterior Abdomen of a Upright Person

Five fen below the xiphoid process. Moxibustion is prohibited here.

One cun below Jiutui (CV15). Daily moxibustion: seven to forty-nine moxa cones. Indications include mental restlessness, febrile diseases, phlegm-fluid retention in the chest, Xiben disease (a condition characterized by rapid breathing and hemoptysis) with hemoptysis, wind-epilepsy manifesting as incoherent speech or bird-like sounds, inability to eat, and deficiency of heart qi; various types of heart pain such as cold pain and ascariasis-induced pain; gu poison, cholera, loss of consciousness, abdominal fullness, sudden severe pain, sweating, cold extremities, and inability to raise the arms.

One cun below Juque (CV14), three cun away from Jiutui. Daily moxibustion: fourteen to one hundred moxa cones. If not cured, double the dosage. Indications include heat and restlessness in the heart, Bentun Qi (a sensation of gas rushing upward from the lower abdomen to the chest), fullness and inability to eat, cholera, heart pain preventing lying down, vomiting and diarrhea, wind-heart palpitations, mental oppression, hiccups, Fuliang Qi (abdominal masses resembling an inverted cup), wind-epilepsy with heat and pain (suitable for draining methods), body heat with absence of sweating, and excessive salivation due to intestinal parasites.

One cun below Shangwan (CV13) (Original note: also known as Taicang or Shangji). The Front-Mu point of the Stomach. Daily moxibustion: fourteen to four hundred moxa cones. Indications include mental distress with inability to eat, retroflexion (vomiting of undigested food), cholera, heart pain, warm malaria, epidemic cold damage; Bentun Qi caused by excessive reading, Fuliang Qi under the heart resembling an inverted cup, cold qi, heat in the abdomen, thirst with salivation indicating ascariasis (hard upon palpation), abdominal distension with obstruction, Zhu disease (chronic infectious wasting disease), hard stool, injury from worry and overthinking, painful accumulation of qi in the abdomen, moving abscesses, hardness and pain in the hypochondrium, foul odor in the nose, heat in the head, and epistaxis. Also indicates middle-jiao cold, injury from overeating, indigestion, jaundice, and chills. Also treats Chong hernia, coma, and pain radiating between the back and heart, dyspnea and distension from excessive water intake.

One cun two fen below Zhongwan (CV12). Moxibustion is applied when there is obstruction.

One cun below Jianli (CV11). Daily moxibustion: fourteen to two hundred moxa cones. Indications include disharmony between the abdomen and stomach, abdominal pain with inability to eat, hard intestines with abdominal pain, gastric distension and masses, throbbing pulse, progressive emaciation, cold qi of the six fu organs, and failure of grain and food to transform.