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Below the Kufang (Storehouse) acupoint, one cun and six fen downwards, in a depression. Take the position while lying on the back. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Indications: Generalized edema, skin pain intolerable to clothing contact, limb weakness and soreness, muscle twitching, numbness. Cough with counterflow qi, dyspnea with profuse expectoration of turbid froth, pus, and blood.

Below the Wuyi (House Covering) acupoint, one cun and six fen downwards, in a depression. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Indications: Carbuncle and swelling in the chest and hypochondrium, borborygmus and diarrhea; mammary abscess, alternating chills and fever, shortness of breath, restlessness during sleep.

Moxibustion is contraindicated here.

One cun and six fen below the nipple, in a depression. Take the position while lying on the back. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Indications: Fullness and pain in the chest, swelling of the chest and mammary abscess, chills and fever, pain intolerable to pressure.

Below the Jugu (Great Bone) acupoint, two cun lateral to both sides of the Qihu (Qi Door) acupoint, in a depression. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Indications: Vomiting and counterflow qi, chest and hypochondriac pain radiating to the back. Pharyngolaryngeal obstruction (Hou Bi), fullness and irritability in the chest, cough and asthma with inability to breathe freely, inability to raise the arm, shortness of breath in the chest and hypochondrium, qi rushing up to the heart.

One cun and six fen below the Yunmen (Cloud Gate) acupoint, in the third intercostal space above the nipple, where arterial pulsation is palpable, in a depression. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Also known as Yingzhong (Chest Center). Indications: Pharyngolaryngeal obstruction (Hou Bi), chest fullness with chills and fever, fullness and pain in the chest, swelling of the face and abdomen; cold in the diaphragm causing inability to swallow food, vomiting with regurgitation; tension in the lung system, chest pain upon coughing. Counterflow qi, expectoration of turbid nasal mucus, shoulder and back pain, sweating due to wind pathogen, abdominal distension, inability to ingest food and drink, [text missing], gallbladder heat.

One cun and six fen below the Zhongfu (Central Treasury) acupoint, in a depression. Take the position while lying on the back. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Indications: Supportive fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, inability to bend forward or backward, expectoration of pus, cough with counterflow qi, dyspnea with profuse expectoration of clear froth, pus, and blood, inability to ingest food.

Below the Zhouying (Weekly Prosperity/Zhourong) acupoint, one cun and six fen downwards, in a depression. Take the position while lying on the back. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Indications: Supportive fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, pulling pain from the chest to the back, inability to turn over in bed.

Below the Xiangxiang (Fragrant Village) acupoint, one cun and six fen downwards, in a depression. Take the position while lying on the back. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Breast swelling and ulcerated carbuncle. Fullness and pain in the chest, cough with counterflow qi, sounds in the throat. Breast swelling spreading to the chest.

Below the Tianxi (Heavenly Stream) acupoint, one cun and six fen downwards. Raise the arm to locate. Moxibustion: five moxa cones. Supportive fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, rumbling sounds in the diaphragm like thunder, often accompanied by faint noises.