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At one and a half cun lateral to the midline, below the spinous process of the 17th thoracic vertebra. It mainly treats wind-lao lower back pain, diarrhea and dysentery, deficiency-type abdominal distension, difficult urination, and various gynecological disorders such as jiaju (masses in the abdomen).

At one and a half cun lateral to the midline, below the spinous process of the 18th thoracic vertebra. Apply three moxa cones (San Zhuang). It mainly treats pus and blood in stool, pain from the five types of hemorrhoids (Wu Zhi), leukorrhea in women, difficulty in both defecation and urination, lin syndrome with urinary retention (Lin Long), yellow-red urine, diarrhea and dysentery with pus and blood, "five-color heavy discharge" (mixed colored vaginal or intestinal discharges), swelling and pain, lumbar-sacral hernia pain, and stiffness and rigidity of the waist and spine.

At one and a half cun lateral to the midline, below the spinous process of the 19th thoracic vertebra. Apply three moxa cones (San Zhuang). It mainly treats paravertebral lower back pain caused by wind, diarrhea, intestinal abscess (Chang Yong), difficulty in both defecation and urination, red urine, sores on the genitals, shortness of breath, coldness in the calves, spasms and tightness preventing flexion and extension, gynecological masses (Jiaju) in women, irritability and fullness with no sweating, red-yellow urine, stiffness and rigidity of the waist and spine, hard accumulations and masses, and coldness and numbness in the feet. It also treats heat-induced spasm with bone pain.

At one and a half cun lateral to the midline, below the spinous process of the 20th thoracic vertebra. Apply three moxa cones (San Zhuang). (Original note: Also known as Jinei). It mainly treats bloody and white dysentery, deficiency-thirst with sweating, inability to bend or extend the waist, abdominal distension, hypochondriac pain, and lumbar hernia, alternating chills and fever, spasm with opisthotonos (spasm with backward bending of the body).

At one and a half cun lateral to the midline, below the spinous process of the 21st thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion is not suitable here.

At the first foramen, one cun below the iliac crest, adjacent to both sides of the spine. Apply three moxa cones (San Zhuang). It mainly treats vomiting and rebellious qi, chills and fever with lower back pain, female infertility, malaria with chills and fever, uterine prolapse (Yin Ting Chu), involuntary leakage of white discharge, spasm with opisthotonos, and incontinence of urine and feces. It also treats epistaxis (nosebleed).

In the second depression adjacent to the spine. Apply three moxa cones (San Zhuang). It mainly treats numbness from the lower waist down to the feet. It also treats pain in the waist and feet, aversion to cold, red and white leukorrhea in women, accumulation and distension in the epigastrium. Lower back pain preventing bending or extension, coldness and numbness in the feet, incontinence of urine and feces, and descending sensation of hernia qi.

In the third depression, in the hollow adjacent to the spine. Apply three moxa cones (San Zhuang). It mainly treats red and white vaginal discharge in women, qi stagnation with urinary difficulty (Qi Long), scanty menstruation, difficulty in defecation, incontinence of urine and feces, abdominal distension with undigested food diarrhea (Sun Xie), and the five labors, seven injuries, and six extremes (general terms for severe deficiency syndromes) in men, along with lower back pain.

In the fourth depression, in the hollow adjacent to the spine. Apply three moxa cones (San Zhuang). It mainly treats lower back pain, involuntary leakage of greenish vaginal discharge (Cang Zhi), red discharge, itching and pain in the vagina radiating to the lower abdomen, inability to bend or extend, incontinence of urine and feces, borborygmus and abdominal distension, and impending watery diarrhea.