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Below the patella, located in the middle of the large tendons on both sides of the knee joint. It mainly treats pain and numbness in the knee, difficulty in kneeling and rising; it treats abscesses of the patella. Those that have ulcerated cannot be treated, while those that have not ulcerated can be treated.

Two cun above the knee, between the two tendons (Original note: Some say three cun). Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. It mainly treats tendon spasms, inability to flex or extend the knee, and inability to walk. It mainly treats severe fright, breast abscesses, and cold-bi syndrome.

Three cun above the knee, below Futu (ST32), in the depression where Qi gathers. Take this point with the leg raised. Moxibustion is contraindicated (Original note: Also known as Yinding). It mainly treats abdominal fullness, flaccidity and cold limbs with shortness of breath, and lower back pain preventing turning the head. It mainly treats cold in the area of Futu above the knee, cold hernia, lower abdominal pain, limb flaccidity with qi deficiency, and a sensation of ice-cold water in the waist.

Six cun above the knee. Moxibustion is not performed.

In the intersection behind Futu above the knee (Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones). It mainly treats jaundice, cold and numbness in the knee, flaccidity-bi, inability to flex or extend, and spasm of the meridians and collaterals inside the thigh.

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One and a half cun behind Baihui (GV20), above the occipital bone (Original note: Also known as Jiaochong). Moxibustion: 5 moxa cones. It mainly treats wind-dizziness, blurred vision, pain in the forehead and skull, aversion to wind and cold in the neck, counterflow of heat from all Yang meridians, manic-depressive psychosis, and vomiting.

One and a half cun behind the vertex (Original note: Also known as Dayu). Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones. It mainly treats stabbing pain in the head, inability to move, sensation of pulling in the neck, manic-depressive psychosis, vomiting, convulsions during epilepsy attacks, manic running, insomnia, irritability, salivation, and irregular onset.

Above the occipital bone, one cun behind Qiangjian (GV18) (Original note: Also known as Yangfeng and Huiluan). Moxibustion is not performed.

One cun inside the hairline at the back of the neck, inside the large tendon, in the depression where Qi gathers. Moxibustion is not performed.

At the hairline at the back of the neck, in the depression where Qi gathers. Moxibustion is not performed.

One and a half cun behind Tongtian (BL7) (Original note: Also known as Gaogai). (Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones). It mainly treats manic-depressive psychosis, vomiting, manic running, convulsions, mental confusion and unhappiness, blindness due to internal obstruction of the eyes, abdominal fullness, and dyspnea. It mainly treats sudden stiffness and falling upon standing up, dizziness, and tinnitus.

One and a half cun behind Luoque (BL8), one and three-tenths cun lateral to Naohu (GV16), where the flesh rises, above the occipital bone, three cun inside the hairline. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. It mainly treats spasm and pain of the eye system, stiff neck, heavy head and painful neck, wind-dizziness, eye pain with inability to see, cold head with excessive sweating, deafness, nasal congestion, unilateral cold pain in the head, sensation of pulling in the neck, inability to turn the head left or right, upward deviation of the eyeballs, sudden stiffness and falling upon standing up, aversion to wind and cold, anhidrosis, desolate cold limbs with aversion to cold, and unbearable brain-wind pain.