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Zhongwan (CV12), Fenglong (ST40).

[51] Lower limb flaccidity and inability to walk: Qiuxu (GB40), Xingjian (LR2), Kunlun (BL60), Taichong (LR3).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to sexual intercourse after intoxication, leading to deficiency of the Kidney Meridian, resulting in weak lower limbs and ultimately the inability to walk. If previous treatments were ineffective, needle the following acupoints: Zusanli (ST36), Yangfu (GB38), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Fuliou (KI7).

[52] Weakness and lack of strength in the feet: Gongsun (SP4), Zusanli (ST36), Xuangu (GB39), Shenmai (BL62).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to dampness invading the meridians, with blood and qi clashing; or due to excessive sexual activity depleting vitality; or due to long-distance walking damaging sinews and bones, leading to this disease. Needle the following acupoints: Kunlun (BL60), Yangfu (GB38).

[53] Red and swollen Hong Kong foot (tinea pedis) with sores: Zhaohai (KI6), Kunlun (BL60), Jinggu (BL64), Weizhong (BL40).
Q: Why did the previous acupoints fail to cure it?
A: Because blood and qi are凝滞 (stagnant) and not dispersing, and cold and heat pathogens remain untreated for a long time, evolving into this disease. Needle the following acupoints: Zusanli (ST36), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[54] Red swelling and pain on the dorsum of the foot: Taichong (LR3), Zulinqi (GB41), Xingjian (LR2), Neiting (ST44).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to excessive labor followed by washing with hot water, causing stagnation of blood and qi, leading to red swelling and pain. Acupuncture is suitable, but moxibustion is not. Qiuxu (GB40), Kunlun (BL60).

[55] Grass-shoe wind (heel pain): Zhaohai (KI6), Qiuxu (GB40), Shangqiu (SP5), Kunlun (BL60).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to excessive labor causing dampness to stagnate and become cold; or walking in extreme heat and then soaking feet in cold water, forming this condition. Needle the following acupoints: Taichong (LR3), Jiexi (ST41).

[56] Wind-pain preventing turning of the body and difficulty in taking steps: Huantiao (GB30), Fengshi (GB31), Kunlun (BL60), Juliao (GB29), Zusanli (ST36), Yanglingquan (GB34).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to excessive sexual intercourse, sleeping on cold and damp ground, with pathogens flowing into the meridians; or due to sprains causing lower back pain and difficulty in movement. If the previous acupoints are ineffective, needle the following: Wushu (GB27), Yangfu (GB38), Zhigou (TE6).

[57] Pain in the waist and legs: Weizhong (BL40), Renzhong (GV26).

[58] Lower back pain due to Kidney deficiency: Shenshu (BL23), Weizhong (BL40), Taixi (KI3), Baihuanxu (BL30).

[59] Stiffness and pain in the waist and spine: Renzhong (GV26), Weizhong (BL40).

[60] Waist and hypochondriac pain due to sprain: Chize (LU5), Weizhong (BL40), Renzhong (GV26).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to excessive sexual intercourse damaging the Kidney Meridian, depletion of essence and blood, leading to Kidney-deficiency lower back pain; combined with carrying heavy loads and traveling far, causing chaotic blood and qi, and hot blood failing to return to its origin, resulting in lower back pain. Or due to other factors where qi attacks both hypochondria causing pain, hence this symptom. Needle the following acupoints: Kunlun (BL60), Shugu (BL65), Zhigou (TE6).

[61] Generalized edema with sores: Quchi (LI11), Hegu (LI4), Zusanli (ST36), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Xingjian (LR2), Neiting (ST44).
Q: How is this condition contracted?
A: Due to irregular eating (starvation and overeating), excessive sexual activity, or consumption of raw and cold foods.

[62] Edema of the four limbs: Zhongdu (LR6), Hegu (LI4), Quchi (LI11), Zhongzhu (TE3), Yemen (TE2).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to hunger and cold, with pathogenic factors entering the meridians, excessive drinking of water flowing into the four limbs. Or due to excessive alcohol consumption without avoiding wind and cold, leading to this condition. Needle the following acupoints: Xingjian (LR2), Neiting (ST44), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Yinlingquan (SP9).

[63] Single Gu distension (unilateral abdominal swelling): Qihai (CV6), Xingjian (LR2), Zusanli (ST36), Neiting (ST44), Shuifen (CV9), Shiguan (EX-LE1).

[64] Double Gu distension (bilateral abdominal swelling): Zhigou (TE6), Hegu (LI4), Quchi (LI11), Shuifen (CV9).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to excessive alcohol and sexual activity, internally damaging the zang-fu organs, blocking blood and qi, thus forming Gu distension. Undigested food, phlegm accumulation, generalized edema with fluid retention, difficult urination, stagnant blood and qi leading to limb edema; insufficient Stomach qi, unregulated alcohol and sex leading to single Gu distension. Failure of Kidney water, lack of interaction between fire and water leading to double Gu distension. This condition is difficult to treat; the physician must analyze it carefully. Zusanli (ST36), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Xingjian (LR2), Neiting (ST44).

[65] Urinary retention: Yinlingquan (SP9), Qihai (CV6), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to pathogenic qi in the Bladder, with heat not dissipating. Or due to excessive labor, anger injuring the bladder, causing qi closure in the orifices; or urinary retention in women (Zhuanbao), all presenting this symptom. Needle the following acupoints: Yinggu (KI10), Daling (PC7).

[66] Frequent and slippery urination: Zhongji (CV3), Shenshu (BL23), Yinlingquan (SP9).
Q: What is this condition?
A: This is Cold affecting the Bladder, slippery and rapid pulse in the Kidney Meridian, cold pain in urination, frequent dribbling. Needle the following acupoints: Sanyinjiao (SP6), Qihai (CV6).

[67] Constipation and blockage: Zhangmen (LR13), Taibai (SP3), Zhaohai (KI6).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: This condition is not singular; there is Heat binding and Cold binding. Tonification should precede sedation.

[68] Uncontrollable diarrhea: Zhongwan (CV12), Tianshu (ST25), Zhongji (CV3).

[69] Dysentery with red and white discharge: For red discharge: Neiting (ST44), Tianshu (ST25), Yinbai (SP1), Qihai (CV6), Zhaohai (KI6), Neiguan (PC6). For white discharge with tenesmus and severe pain: Waiguan (TE5), Zhongwan (CV12), Yinbai (SP1), Tianshu (ST25), Shenmai (BL62).

[70] Internal toxicity with bloody stool: Chengshan (BL57), Pishu (BL20), Jinggong (EX-BA4), Changqiang (GV1).

[71] Prolapsed rectum and chronic hemorrhoids: Erbai (EX-LE3), Baihui (GV20), Jinggong (EX-BA4), Changqiang (GV1).

[72] Malaria caused by Spleen Cold: Houxi (SI3), Jianshi (PC5), Dazhui (GV14), Shenzhu (GV12), Zusanli (ST36), Xuangu (GB39), Hegu (LI4), Gaohuang (BL43).

[73] Malaria, chills preceding fever: Xuangu (GB39), Baihui (GV20), Gaohuang (BL43), Hegu (LI4).

[74] Malaria, fever preceding chills: Quchi (LI11) [Tonify first, sedate later], Xuangu (GB39) [Sedate first, tonify later], Gaohuang (BL43), Bailao (EX-UE11).

[75] More heat than chills: Houxi (SI3), Jianshi (PC5), Bailao (EX-UE11), Quchi (LI11).

[76] More chills than heat: Houxi (SI3), Bailao (EX-UE11), Quchi (LI11).
Q: How is this condition contracted?
A: It is all due to Spleen and Stomach weakness, summerheat injury in summer leading to malaria in autumn. There is more heat than chills, or isolated chills/fever; excess Qi leads to more heat, excess Phlegm leads to more chills. These are all due to stagnant fluid retention, consumption of blood and qi, failure of Spleen and Stomach, and unregulated sexual activity. Attacks may occur daily, every other day, or every three days. Untreated for long, it becomes a major affliction. Post-malaria complications include edema, consumptive disease, loose stools, abdominal distension, or water retention with malarial masses in the abdomen. Treatment requires regulating the Spleen, promoting appetite, and resolving phlegm-fluids. Acupoint selection follows previous methods.

[77] Regurgitation and vomiting: Zhongwan (CV12), Pishu (BL20), Zhongkui (EX-UE8), Zusanli (ST36).

[78] Inability to swallow water, known as Five Sie (Obstructions): Laogong (PC8), Zhongkui (EX-UE8), Zhongwan (CV12), Zusanli (ST36), Daling (PC7), Zhigou (TE6), Shangwan (CV13).
Q: How is regurgitation acquired? Can acupuncture treat it?
A: Some cases are treatable, others are not. At onset, it is due to excessive alcohol and sex, unregulated sexual activity, Cold in the Stomach, vomiting sour fluid. Food may be vomited immediately or one to three days later. Immediate vomiting is treatable; vomiting after two to three days indicates Spleen exhaustion and Stomach dryness, inability to digest food and water. Thus, there are five types of Sie: Qi Sie, Water Sie, Food Sie, Labor Sie, Thought Sie. Detailed analysis and treatment are required. Needle the following acupoints: Pishu (BL20), Weishu (BL21) [More tonification than sedation], Danzhong (CV17), Taibai (SP3), Xiawan (CV10), Shiguan (EX-LE1).

[79] Wheezing, coughing, and asthma: Shufu (BL12), Tiantu (CV22), Danzhong (CV17), Feishu (BL13), Zusanli (ST36), Zhongwan (CV12).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to preference for hot, sour, fishy foods, and invasion of wind-pathogens and phlegm-fluids into the Lungs; or anger injuring the Liver, combined with undigested food from drunkenness and sexual activity, lacking restraint. Cases vary: Water Asthma triggered by drinking; Qi Asthma triggered by anger and Cold clash with full phlegm; Salty Asthma triggered by salty food; or roasted/fried foods trigger it. Physicians must analyze carefully. This is common in children. Needle the following acupoints: Gaohuang (BL43), Qihai (CV6), Guanyuan (CV4), Rugen (ST18).

[80] Cough with red sputum: Bailao (EX-UE11), Feishu (BL13), Zhongwan (CV12), Zusanli (ST36).
Q: How is this condition contracted?
A: It is all due to excessive sexual desire, failure of Spleen and Kidney, anger injuring the Liver, blood failing to return to its origin, forming phlegm-fluids that invade the Lung Meridian. Untreated for long, it becomes Tuberculosis (Lao Zhai). Needle the following acupoints: Gaohuang (BL43), Shenshu (BL23), Feishu (BL13), Rugen (ST18).

[81] Hematemesis and similar conditions: Danzhong (CV17), Zhongwan (CV12), Qihai (CV6), Zusanli (ST36), Rugen (ST18), Zhigou (TE6).
Q: How is this condition acquired? What is the treatment method?
A: It is all due to worry and thought, emotional disturbances moving internally affecting the Heart (Spirit) and externally affecting the Form (Essence). Ancients said: The Heart generates blood, the Liver stores blood. When Heart and Liver meridians are constrained, Heart Fire flares up, blood and qi obstruct upwards, and Kidney Water fails to interact due to depletion, causing this condition. Differentiate deficiency and excess; do not treat uniformly. Feishu (BL13), Shenshu (BL23), Ganshu (BL18), Gaohuang (BL43), Guanyuan (CV4).

[82] Lung congestion and cough: Feishu (BL13), Danzhong (CV17), Zhigou (TE6), Daling (PC7).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: Due to wind-cold invasion, exterior and interior not resolved, continuous coughing, expectoration of pus and blood, indicating Lung Abscess. Needle the following acupoints: Fengmen (BL12), Zusanli (ST36).

[83] Chronic cough not healing: Feishu (BL13), Zusanli (ST36), Danzhong (CV17), Rugen (ST18), Fengmen (BL12), Quepen (ST12).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to salty food injuring the Lungs, unregulated alcohol and sex, unresolved wind-cold, phlegm flowing into meridians, causing continuous cough. Previous acupoints can be needled.

[84] Infectious Tuberculosis (Chuan Shi Lao Zhai): Jiutui (CV15), Feishu (BL13), Zhongji (CV3), Sihua (EX-CA1) [Moxa first].
Q: How does this condition arise?
A: It is all due to sexual intercourse after full meals, consuming blood and qi, leading to infectious tuberculosis that can wipe out families. Needle the following acupoints: Danzhong (CV17), Yongquan (KI1), Baihui (GV20), Gaohuang (BL43), Zusanli (ST36), Zhongwan (CV12).

[85] Xiao Ke (Wasting and Thirsting): Jinjin, Yuye (EX-HN12, EX-HN13), Chengjiang (CV24).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to Kidney Water depletion, lack of Fire-Water interaction, failure of Spleen and Stomach. Untreated for long, it becomes Back Carbuncle, which is difficult to treat. Needle the following acupoints: Haiquan (CV23), Renzhong (GV26), Lianquan (CV23), Qihai (CV6), Shenshu (BL23).

[86] Nocturnal emission and leukorrhea: Xinshu (BL15), Shenshu (BL23), Guanyuan (CV4), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: Due to improper sexual activity startling the Heart, internal failure to store essence, external injury to the Kidney; worry and thought, emotional disturbance, Heart-Kidney non-interaction, gradual emaciation, consumption of blood and qi. Needle the following acupoints: Mingmen (GV4), Baihuanxu (BL30).

[87] Deficiency pain of the penis: Zhongji (CV3), Taixi (KI3), Fuliou (KI7), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to youthful misuse of mineral drugs, injuring the urethra, causing Yin-Yang interaction without release, generating this condition. Needle the following acupoints: Xuehai (SP10), Zhongji (CV3), Haidi (EX-LE4), Neiguan (PC6), Yinlingquan (SP9).

[88] Scrotal sweating and hernia: Lanmen (EX-LE5), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[89] Wooden Kidney (painless testicular swelling like a cup): Guilai (ST29), Dadun (LR1), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[90] Ben Tun and Ru Xian (Hernia): Guanmen (ST25), Guanyuan (CV4), Shuidao (ST28), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
Q: How are these three conditions acquired?
A: All due to excessive alcohol and sex, Kidney Water depletion, unregulated sexual activity, weak essence and Qi, impotence forced into intercourse, essence unable to exit, flowing into the Bladder. Conditions vary: swelling like a cup, unilateral painful hernia like an egg, sound upon pressing upper abdomen, known as Ru Xian Hernia. Needle the following acupoints: Haidi (EX-LE4), Guilai (ST29), Guanyuan (CV4), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[91] Red and white vaginal discharge in women: Qihai (CV6), Zhongji (CV3), Baihuanxu (BL30), Shenshu (BL23).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: All due to disregarding health, indulging in sex, damaging essence and blood. Or sexual intercourse during menstruation, internal failure to store essence, leaking clear fluid, transforming into red and white discharge. Needle the following acupoints: Qihai (CV6), Sanyinjiao (SP6), Yangjiao (GB35) [More tonification than sedation].

[92] Infertility in women: Zigong (EX-CA1), Zhongji (CV3).

[93] Multiple pregnancies in women: Shimai (CV5), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[94] Irregular menstruation: Zhongji (CV3), Shenshu (BL23), Qihai (CV6), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[95] Difficult labor in women: Duyin (EX-UE9), Hegu (LI4), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[96] Metrorrhagia and metrorrhaxis: Zhongji (CV3), Zigong (EX-CA1).

[97] Postpartum blood stasis pain: Qihai (CV6), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[98) Retained placenta: Zhongji (CV3), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[99] Restlessness, heat, dizziness and heaviness of head and eyes: Hegu (LI4), Bailao (EX-UE11), Zhongquan (EX-UE10), Xinshu (BL15), Laogong (PC8), Yongquan (KI1).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: All due to postpartum labor, wind-pathogens invading meridians.
Or due to excessive toil, also seen in unmarried women. Why?
A: Due to Yin-Yang disharmony, blood and qi congestion, or worry and thought. Needle the following acupoints: Shaoshang (LU11), Quchi (LI11).

[100] Sudden red swelling and pain of the vulva: Huiyin (CV1), Zhongji (CV3), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[101] Uncontrollable metrorrhagia in women: Dantian (CV11), Zhongji (CV3), Shenshu (BL23), Zigong (EX-CA1).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: Due to sexual intercourse during menstruation, gradual emaciation, external Cold invasion, internal essence injury, alternating chills and fever, essence and blood clashing, internal failure to store essence, external failure to receive blood, toxic gases stirring the uterus, wind-pathogens invading the Lungs causing cough and phlegm. If pulse deficiency/excess is not distinguished and treated as consumptive disease, it is incorrect. Or due to mutual attraction, chaotic meridians, blood failing to return to origin. Needle the following acupoints: Bailao (EX-UE11), Fengchi (GB20), Gaohuang (BL43), Quchi (LI11), Xuangu (GB39), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[102] Lack of lactation in women: Shaoze (SI1), Hegu (LI4), Danzhong (CV17).

[103] Mastitis: Needle painful area of breast, Danzhong (CV17), Daling (PC7), Weizhong (BL40), Shaoze (SI1), Shufu (BL12).

[104] Amenorrhea: Zhongji (CV3), Shenshu (BL23), Hegu (LI4), Sanyinjiao (SP6).
Q: Why are posterior acupoints not listed for female conditions?
A: Female conditions are complex and hard to list fully; using these points alone is effective. Further differentiate pulse deficiency/excess and regulate accordingly.

[105] Generalized skin sores: Quchi (LI11), Hegu (LI4), Zusanli (ST36), Xingjian (LR2).

[106] Back carbuncles and ulcers: Jianjing (GB21), Weizhong (BL40), Tianying (Ashi point), Qizhuma (EX-LE2).
Q: How to treat Yin-type ulcer with no head covering the back?
A: Apply wet mud, starting from dry areas, place garlic slice, moxa according to method, and administer Wuxiang Liaoqiao San for several doses to bring it out.

[107] Kidney Wind Sores: Xuehai (SP10), Sanyinjiao (SP6).

[108] Ding Chuang (Carbuncle/Furuncle) [Puncture with needle; treatable if blood appears, untreatable if no blood]: Hegu (LI4), Quchi (LI11), Zusanli (ST36), Weizhong (BL40).

[109] Jia Huang (Toxin retreating from hypochondrium): Zhigou (TE6), Weizhong (BL40), Jianjing (GB21), Yanglingquan (GB34).

[110] Taiyang Headache: Hegu (LI4), Cuanzhu (BL2), Taiyang (EX-HN5) [Purple vein behind eyebrow].

[111] Taiyang Hypochondriac Pain: Zhigou (TE6), Zhangmen (LR13), Yanglingquan (GB34), Weizhong (BL40) [Bloodletting].

[112] Taiyang Chest and Hypochondriac Pain: Daling (PC7), Qimen (LR14), Danzhong (CV17), Laogong (PC8).

[113) Persistent High Fever in Taiyang Disease: Quchi (LI11), Xuangu (GB39), Zusanli (ST36), Dazhui (GV14), Yongquan (KI1), Hegu (LI4) [All Sedation].

[114) Residual Heat after Fever Subsides in Taiyang Disease: Fengmen (BL12), Hegu (LI4), Xingjian (LR2), Xuangu (GB39).

[115) Mania, disregard for hierarchy: Quchi (LI11), Xuangu (GB39), Bailao (EX-UE11), Yongquan (KI1).

[116) Taiyang Disease with Convulsions, unconsciousness: Quchi (LI11), Hegu (LI4), Renzhong (GV26), Fuliou (KI7).

[117) Taiyang Disease with Anhidrosis (No Sweat): Neiting (ST44) [Sedate], Hegu (LI4) [Tonify], Fuliou (KI7) [Sedate], Bailao (EX-UE11).

[118) Taiyang Disease with Hyperhidrosis (Excessive Sweat): Neiting (ST44), Hegu (LI4) [Sedate], Fuliou (KI7) [Tonify], Bailao (EX-UE11).

[119) Constipation: Zhangmen (LR13), Zhaohai (KI6), Zhigou (TE6), Taibai (SP3).

[120) Urinary Retention: Yinggu (KI10), Yinlingquan (SP9).

[121) Six Pulses Absent: Hegu (LI4), Fuliou (KI7), Zhongji (CV3) [Common in Yin Syndromes].

[122) Taiyang Disease with Mania: Qimen (LR14), Qihai (CV6), Quchi (LI11).

[123) Taiyang Disease with Jaundice: Wanggu (SI4), Shenmai (BL62), Waiguan (TE5), Yongquan (KI1).

[124) Sore Throat and Swelling: Shaoshang (LU11), Tiantu (CV22), Hegu (LI4).

[125) Bilateral Tonsillitis (Shuang Ru E): Shaoshang (LU11), Jinjin, Yuye (EX-HN12, EX-HN13).

[126) Unilateral Tonsillitis (Dan Ru E): Shaoshang (LU11), Hegu (LI4), Haiquan (CV23).

[127) Pediatric Red Roaming Wind (Erysipelas): Baihui (GV20), Weizhong (BL40).

[128) Generalized Red Erysipelas: Baihui (GV20), Quchi (LI11), Zusanli (ST36), Weizhong (BL40).

[129) Jaundice with Deficiency Edema: Wanggu (SI4), Bailao (EX-UE11), Zusanli (ST36), Yongquan (KI1) [For general yellowing], Zhongwan (CV12), Gaohuang (BL43), Dantian (CV11) [For color yellowing], Yinlingquan (SP9) [For alcoholic jaundice].

[130) Abdominal Qi Masses, Pi Masses, Ji Masses: Zusanli (ST36), Kuazhong (EX-LE6), Kuawei (EX-LE7).

[131) Five Epilepsies and similar conditions: Shangxing (GV23), Guilv (EX-HN1), Jiutui (CV15), Yongquan (KI1), Xinshu (BL15), Baihui (GV20).

[132) Ma Xian (Horse Epilepsy): Zhaohai (KI6), Jiutui (CV15), Xinshu (BL15).

[133) Feng Xian (Wind Epilepsy): Shenting (GV24), Suliao (DU26), Yongquan (KI1).

[134) Shi Xian (Food Epilepsy): Jiutui (CV15), Zhongwan (CV12), Shaoshang (LU11).

[135) Zhu Xian (Pig Epilepsy): Yongquan (KI1), Xinshu (BL15), Zusanli (ST36), Jiutui (CV15), Zhongwan (CV12), Shaoshang (LU11), Juque (CV14).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: It is all due to Cold Phlegm knotting in the Stomach, loss of will and stability, forming various symptoms. Physicians analyzing and treating will find it effective.

[136) Loss of Will and Dementia: Shenmen (HT7), Guiyan (EX-HN2), Baihui (GV20), Jiutui (CV15).

[137) Bad Breath: Yinjiao (GV28), Chengjiang (CV24).
Q: How is this condition acquired?
A: All due to excessive mental work, unremitting labor, or not brushing teeth, retaining old food residue, causing foul odor. Needle: Jinjin, Yuye (EX-HN12, EX-HN13).

[138) Pediatric Rectal Prolapse: Baihui (GV20), Changqiang (GV1), Dachangshu (BL25).

[139) Cholera with Muscle Cramps: Chengshan (BL57), Zhongfeng (SP4).

[140) Cholera with Vomiting and Diarrhea: Zhongwan (CV12), Tianshu (ST25).