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At the location 1.5 cun lateral to the midline, below the tenth thoracic vertebra (moxibustion: three moxa cones). Indicated for fullness and distension of the heart and chest, regurgitation and shortness of breath, phlegm obstruction causing chest tightness, difficulty in swallowing food that fails to digest, dry tongue, inability to eat or drink, yellow eyes, inability to turn the body due to chest and hypochondriac stiffness, headache with chills, absence of sweating, and swelling in the axilla.

At the location 1.5 cun lateral to the midline, below the eleventh thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: three moxa cones. Indicated for jaundice of the waist and body, distension, abdominal diarrhea, heaviness of the body, flaccidity and weakness of the four limbs, jaundice, pathogenic qi invasion, pi accumulation (masses), fu accumulation (masses), abdominal pain, alternating cold and heat, abdominal qi distension radiating to the spine, excessive eating yet emaciation, stiffness and urgency of the lumbar spine, febrile spasms radiating bone pain, jaundice, frequent yawning, inability to eat, hypochondriac fullness, desire to vomit, heaviness of the body with reluctance to move, dysentery with anorexia, failure of food to nourish the flesh, and phlegmatic malaria with alternating cold and heat.

At the location 1.5 cun lateral to the midline, below the twelfth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: three moxa cones. Indicated for irritability and fullness, vomiting of food, abdominal distension with inability to eat, abdominal fullness with borborygmus, cold distension in the stomach, excessive eating leading to vomiting, tendon cramping and urgency, inability to swallow food, chest and hypochondriac fullness, emaciation, borborygmus and abdominal pain, and spinal pain.

At the location 1.5 cun lateral to the midline, below the thirteenth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: three moxa cones. Indicated for indigestion of water and grain, abdominal distension, lower back pain, regurgitation, dizziness and headache, inability to eat, borborygmus and abdominal bloating, abdominal pain, and watery diarrhea. Also indicated for abdominal accumulations hard as stone, stiffness and tension of the shoulder and back, and rigidity of the lumbar spine.

At the location 1.5 cun lateral to the midline, below the fourteenth thoracic vertebra, opposite the umbilicus. Moxibustion: three moxa cones. Indicated for deafness due to deficiency exhaustion, distension of the water organ due to kidney deficiency, tendon cramping and urgency, lower back pain, turbid urine, pain in the genitalia, emission of bloody essence, five exhausters and seven injuries, cold vomiting, cramping and urgency of the feet and knees, preference for lying alone, edema resembling water retention, and lower abdominal pain. Also indicated for vomiting, cold invading the middle jiao, profuse un-digested diarrhea, difficult, red, and turbid urination, bone alternating cold and heat, pain radiating from the two hypochondria, blurred vision, aversion to wind and cold, facial redness and heat, and cardiac [symptoms].

At the location 1.5 cun lateral to the midline, below the fifteenth thoracic vertebra. Indicated for lower back pain and hemorrhoids.

At the location 1.5 cun lateral to the midline, below the sixteenth thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: three moxa cones. Indicated for lower back pain, borborygmus and distension, periumbilical pain, difficulty in urination and defecation, or diarrhea with undigested food, and rigidity of the spinal column. Also indicated for difficulty in urination and defecation, borborygmus, abdominal swelling, acute diarrhea, inability to eat, and thirst.