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Located below the third vertebra. Moxibustion: five moxa cones (Zhuang). Indications: Epilepsy (Dianji), convulsions (Yuan), anger with intent to kill, feverish body with manic running, delirious speech and hallucinations of seeing ghosts, mental confusion and unhappiness, chest heat and dry mouth, irritability, thirst, panting, headache, vomiting without expulsion.

Located in the interspace below the fifth vertebral segment. Take the point while bending forward. Moxibustion: three moxa cones (Zhuang). Indications: Acute stiffness and rigidity of the waist and spine, cold malaria with mental confusion, sadness, worry, amnesia, palpitations due to fright. Also indicates headache with alternating chills and fever, paroxysmal symptoms, panting due to heat, eye pain, and blurred vision.

Located in the interspace below the sixth vertebral segment. Take the point while bending forward (Moxibustion: three moxa cones [Zhuang]). Indications: Heat diseases involving spleen heat, warm malaria with absence of sweating (Original note: From *Suwen*).

Located in the interspace below the seventh vertebral segment. Take the point while bending forward. Moxibustion: three moxa cones (Zhuang). Indications: Chills and fever leading to skin ulceration or flaccidity, generalized soreness and weakness, soreness of the shins, heaviness and pain in the four limbs, shortness of breath and difficulty in speaking.

Located in the interspace below the ninth vertebra. Take the point while bending forward. Moxibustion: three moxa cones (Zhuang). Indications: Fright epilepsy, manic running, epilepsy, acute stiffness and rigidity of the spine, upward deviation of the eyes.

Located at the eleventh vertebra (Original note: Also known as Shenzong, Jizhong). Do not apply moxibustion.

Located in the interspace below the thirteenth vertebral segment. Moxibustion: three moxa cones (Zhuang). Indications: Inability to flex and extend the waist and spine, stiffness, accumulation of qi moving up and down in the abdomen, indigestion of water and grain, dysentery.

Located below the fourteenth vertebra. Take the point while bending forward. Moxibustion: three moxa cones (Zhuang) (Original note: Also known as Shulei). Indications: Headache as if splitting, body heat like fire, absence of sweating.

Located in the interspace below the sixteenth vertebral segment. Take the point while lying prone. Moxibustion: three moxa cones (Zhuang). Indications: Bi syndrome of the shins with numbness and insensitivity.

Located in the depression below the twenty-first vertebral segment (Original note: Also known as Baijie, Sukong, Yaozhu, Yaohu). Straighten the body, relax the abdomen, cross both hands to support the forehead, stretch the four limbs, then take the point. Moxibustion: seven moxa cones (Zhuang), up to a total of forty-nine moxa cones (Zhuang). Avoid sexual intercourse. Indications: Pain in the loins and hips, stiffness of the waist and spine preventing rotation, warm malaria, malaria.

At the end of the spine, in the depression below the coccyx (Original note: Also known as Qi Zhiyin, Weitui). The point is obtained by squatting on the ground. Daily moxibustion: thirty to two hundred moxa cones (Zhuang). Guard against sexual intercourse. This is the root cause of hemorrhoids; avoid cold foods. Indications: Heart pain and shortness of breath, intestinal wind with bleeding, five types of hemorrhoids with gangrenous erosion, pediatric rectal prolapse with bloody stool, persistent conditions in late autumn, fright epilepsy, convulsions, excessive vomiting, fright causing loss of essence, blurred vision, increased eye discharge, heavy head, profuse diarrhea, acute stiffness of the waist and spine, back pain, cold spasms, opisthotonos. Indicates epilepsy.