（左右手及臂凡一十八穴）
1．少冲∶二穴木也，一名经始，在小指内廉之端，去爪甲角如韭叶。手少阴脉之所出也，为井。治热病
烦满，上气，心痛，痰冷少气，悲恐善惊，掌中热，胸中痛，口中热，咽中酸，乍寒
乍热，手挛不伸，引肘腋痛。针一分，可灸三壮。
2．少府∶二穴火也，在小指本节后陷中，直劳宫。手少阴脉
之所流也，为荥。治烦满少气，悲恐畏人，掌中热，肘腋挛急，胸中痛，手卷不伸。针入二分，可灸七壮。
3．神门∶二穴土也，一名兑冲，在掌后锐骨之端陷中。手少阴脉之所注也，为 。治疟心烦，心烦甚欲得
饮冷，恶寒则欲处温中，咽干，不嗜食，心痛，数噫，恐悸，少气不足，手臂寒，喘
逆，身热，狂悲哭，呕血，上气，遗溺，大小人五痫。可灸七壮，炷如小麦大，针入三分，留七呼。
4．阴 ∶二穴在掌后动脉中，去腕五分。治失喑不能言，洒淅振寒，厥逆心痛，霍乱，胸中满，衄血，
惊恐。针入三分，可灸七壮。
5.通里∶二穴在腕后一寸。治热病卒心中懊 ，数欠频伸，悲恐，目眩，头痛，面赤而热，心悸，肘臂
痛，实则支肿，虚则不能言，苦呕，喉痹，少气，遗溺。针入三分，可灸三壮。
6．灵道∶二穴金也，去掌后一寸五分或一寸。手少阴脉之所行也，为经。治心痛悲恐，相引螈 ，肘
挛，暴喑不能言。可灸三壮，针入三分。
7．少海∶二穴水也，一名曲节，在肘内廉节后。又云肘内大骨外去肘端五分。手少阴脉之所入也，为
合。治寒热，齿龋痛，目眩，发狂，呕吐涎沫，项不得回顾，肘挛，腋胁下痛，四肢不
得举，针入三分，可灸三壮。甄权云∶屈手向头取之。治齿寒。脑风头痛。不宜灸，针入五分。
8．青灵∶二穴在肘上三寸，举臂取之。治肩臂不举，不能带衣，头痛，振寒，目黄，胁痛。可灸七壮。
9.极泉∶二穴在腋下筋间动脉入胸。治心痛，干呕，四肢不
收，咽干烦渴，臂肘厥寒，目黄，胁下满痛。可灸七壮，针入三分。
(There are eighteen acupoints in total on both hands and arms.)
1. Shaochong (SH 9, Wood): One point on each side, also known as Jingshi, located at the radial corner of the little finger nail, approximately the width of a leek leaf from the nail angle. It is the source point where the Qi of the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian emerges, classified as a Jing-Well point. Indications include heat diseases causing irritability and fullness, rising Qi, heart pain, phlegm-cold with shortness of breath, sadness, fear, and susceptibility to fright, heat in the palms, chest pain, heat in the mouth, sourness in the throat, alternating chills and fever, hand spasms with inability to extend, and pain radiating to the elbow and axilla. Needle depth: 1 fen; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones.
2. Shaofu (HT 8, Fire): One point on each side, located in the depression distal to the base of the fifth metacarpal bone, directly opposite Laogong (PC 8). It is the Ying-Spring point where the Qi of the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian flows. Indications include irritability and fullness, shortness of breath, sadness, fear, and aversion to people, heat in the palms, spasticity and urgency in the elbow and axilla, chest pain, and curling of the fingers with inability to extend. Needle depth: 2 fen; Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones.
3. Shenmen (HT 7, Earth): One point on each side, also known as Duichong, located in the depression at the ulnar end of the wrist crease (styloid process of the pisiform bone). It is the Shu-Stream point where the Qi of the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian pours into. Indications include mental restlessness due to malaria, severe mental restlessness with desire for cold drinks, aversion to cold with desire for warmth, dry throat, anorexia, heart pain, frequent belching, fear and palpitations, shortness of breath and deficiency, cold arms, wheezing and counterflow qi, body heat, manic weeping, hematemesis, rising Qi, enuresis, and various types of epilepsy in adults and children. Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones, size of a wheat grain; Needle depth: 3 fen; Retain needle for 7 breaths.
4. Yinxi (HT 6): One point on each side, located in the arterial pulse behind the wrist, 0.5 cun proximal to the wrist crease. Indications include aphonia (loss of voice), chills and shivering, jue-ni heart pain, cholera-like syndrome, chest fullness, epistaxis, and fright. Needle depth: 3 fen; Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones.
5. Tongli (HT 5): One point on each side, located 1 cun proximal to the wrist crease. Indications include sudden mental discomfort (ao-nu) in heat diseases, frequent yawning and stretching, sadness and fear, vertigo, headache, red and hot face, palpitations, elbow and arm pain, excess syndrome presenting with limb swelling, deficiency syndrome presenting with inability to speak, severe vomiting, bi-syndrome of the throat, shortness of breath, and enuresis. Needle depth: 3 fen; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones.
6. Lingdao (HT 7, Metal): One point on each side, located 1.5 cun or 1 cun proximal to the wrist crease. It is the Jing-River point where the Qi of the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian travels. Indications include heart pain, sadness and fear,牵引型抽搐 (convulsions/tetany), elbow spasticity, and sudden aphonia. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones; Needle depth: 3 fen.
7. Shaohai (HT 3, Water): One point on each side, also known as Qujie, located medial to the elbow joint. Alternatively described as 0.5 cun lateral to the tip of the elbow on the medial aspect of the humeral epicondyle. It is the He-Sea point where the Qi of the Hand-Shaoyin Heart Meridian enters and gathers. Indications include alternating chills and fever, toothache (caries), vertigo, mania, vomiting of saliva/phlegm, stiff neck unable to look back, elbow spasticity, pain in the axilla and hypochondrium, inability to lift limbs. Needle depth: 3 fen; Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Zhen Quan stated: Flex the hand towards the head to locate it. Indications also include cold teeth and wind-brain headache. Moxibustion is contraindicated; Needle depth: 5 fen.
8. Qingling (HT 6): One point on each side, located 3 cun superior to the elbow crease, located with the arm raised. Indications include inability to raise shoulder and arm, difficulty dressing, headache, chills, jaundice (yellow eyes), and hypochondriac pain. Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones.
9. Jiquan (HT 1): One point on each side, located in the axilla between tendons, over the arterial pulse entering the chest. Indications include heart pain, dry retching, inability to control limbs, dry throat with thirst, jue-cold and coldness of the arm and elbow, jaundice, and fullness and pain in the hypochondrium. Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones; Needle depth: 3 fen.