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Houding (Back Top), one acupoint, located 1.5 cun posterior to Baihui (Hall of Meeting), in the depression above the Yuzhen bone. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: blurred vision, aversion to wind and cold, dizziness with a heavy sensation in the head and eyes.

[Image: Back Human Figure No. 9]

Biangu (Flat Bone), two acupoints, located in the depression between the two bones at the upper end of the shoulder. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: heat in the shoulder, pain in the fingers and arms.

Yaoshu (Spinal Well), one acupoint, located in the depression below the interspace of the twenty-first thoracic vertebra. Moxibustion: 5 moxa cones. Indications: low back pain preventing prolonged standing, coldness and numbness from the lower waist down to the feet, difficulty sitting or lying down, stiffness and tension of the lumbar spine preventing flexion and extension, heaviness of the waist as if weighted with stone, difficulty in movement.

Xian Gu (Sunken Valley), two acupoints, located in the depression posterior to the metatarsophalangeal joint, between the first and second toes. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: sudden hernia, hypogastric pain, puffy swelling of the head and face, and chills and fever associated with malaria.

Chengshan (Supporting Mountain), two acupoints, located in the depression between the muscle bellies below the gastrocnemius. Moxibustion: 5 moxa cones. Indications: chills, fever, epilepsy, soreness and pain in the feet, inability to stand for long periods, heaviness of the waist and knees, difficulty walking or sitting, tendon spasms and tension preventing flexion and extension.

[Image: Side Human Figure No. 1]

Naokong (Brain Empty), two acupoints, located 1.5 cun posterior to Chengling (Supporting Spirit), in the depression below the Yuzhen bone. Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones. Indications: dizziness and visual obscuration, epilepsy and mania, chills and fever with traction causing neck stiffness and tension, continuous epistaxis, tinnitus, and deafness.

Jiache (Cheek Carriage), two acupoints, located in the deep depression below the ear, approximately the width of two leeks. Moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. Indications: lockjaw, trismus preventing speech, toothache preventing chewing, and facial swelling.

Qin Chengzu treated cases of demonic possession and epilepsy where all other treatments failed by binding both thumbs together tightly with soft silk thread, then applying moxibustion: 3 moxa cones. The moxa cones were placed on four points, half on the nail and half on the flesh. All four points must be burned; if any point is not burned, the disease will not be cured. The efficacy is miraculous and immeasurable. For pediatric congenital epilepsy, milk-induced epilepsy, and fright-induced epilepsy, apply this method: 1 moxa cone, sized like a wheat grain.

Xuanzhong (Suspended Bell), two acupoints, located in the depression 3 cun above the lateral malleolus. Moxibustion: 5 moxa cones. Indications: abdominal fullness, lingering heat in the middle jiao, poor appetite, and bi-syndrome with numbness in the thighs, hips, knees, and calves, making flexion and extension difficult.

Ligou (Hidden Ridge), two acupoints, located in the depression 5 cun above the medial malleolus. Moxibustion: 7 moxa cones. Indications: sudden hernia, hypogastric swelling, dysuria, accumulation of qi below the umbilicus resembling a stone, cold feet, soreness of the calves, and difficulty in flexion and extension.

Qibo treated conditions where Bladder Qi rushed to attack both flanks, borborygmus below the umbilicus, and retraction of the scrotum into the abdomen. Moxibustion was applied 6 cun below the umbilicus, extending 1.6 cun beyond each side laterally, with 21 moxa cones per site.