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This is the Acupoints section of CMD, which presents 400 or so channel and nonchannel points with location, classical location, local anatomy, indications, traditional indications, needling depth, stimulus, and point groups they belong to, and the meanings of their Chinese names. Links to the Dictionary table are provided.

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    • Click Channel to access information in the Dictionary about the channel of interest.
    • Click on Acupoints to see a preview list of all the points on the channel. Just click on the one that interests you.

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  • First, select Headword only or Headword and Text depending on whether you wish to search in the heading of an entry/article or through the heading and the text below it.
  • Then, in the search box, enter alphanumeric codes (e.g., LU-1), unaccented P墨ny墨n, simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese, or English (literal translation of the point name).
    Note that joined-up P墨ny墨n can be used to search for headwords, but not the whole text.
  • After entering your search word(s), you will see the Search Results appear. You can select
    • Starting with to give you headwords that start with your search string or
    • Containing to give headwords that contain (or the text of which contains) your search string.
  • A filter box below Results allows you to insert another search string to narrow your search. So, for example, if your search string is blood vacuity, you can add headache in the filter box. To find all acupoints in which blood vacuity and headache both appear, either in the headword or headword and text, depending on which selection you have made.

Links

  • The texts include copious links to the Dictionary table.
  • For those studying Chinese, each character of the Chinese headword is linked to the Terms table, where examples of its use can be found, together with links to stroke order animations.

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TB, Hand Lesser Y谩ng (sh脿o y谩ng) Triple Burner Channel Points

  • TB-2 娑查棬 銆旀恫闁銆晊猫 m茅n, Humor Gate
    Modern location: On the dorsal aspect of the hand, proximal to the margin of the web between the fourth and fifth fingers, level with the metacarpophalangeal (mcp) articulation of the fourth finger.
    Modern indications: Headache; red eyes; deafness; painful swollen throat; malarial disease; pain in the arm and hand.
  • TB-3 涓笟 銆斾腑娓氥晍h艒ng zh菙, Central Islet
    Modern location: On the dorsal aspect of the hand, between the fourth and fifth metacarpal bones, immediately proximal to the metacarpophalangeal joints.
    Modern indications: Headache; red eyes; tinnitus; deafness; painful swollen throat; febrile disease; pain in the elbow and arm; inability to bend and stretch the fingers.
  • TB-4 闃虫睜 銆旈櫧姹犮晊谩ng ch铆, Y谩ng Pool
    Modern location: On the dorsal aspect of the wrist, in the depression between the tendons of the extensor digitorum (communis) and the extensor digiti minimi.
    Modern indications: Painful red swollen eyes; deafness; painful swollen throat; malarial disease; dispersion-thirst; wrist pain.
  • TB-5 澶栧叧 銆斿闂溿晈脿i gu膩n, Outer Pass
    Modern location: On the posterior aspect of the forearm, 2 c霉n proximal to the wrist, midway between the radius and the ulna.
    Modern indications: Febrile disease; headache; painful red swollen eyes; deafness; tinnitus; scrofula; pain in the cheek; rib-side pain; impediment pain in the upper limbs with inhibited bending and stretching of the arm; pain in the fingers; tremor of the hand.
  • TB-6 鏀矡 銆旀敮婧濄晍h墨 g艒u, Branch Ditch
    Modern location: On the posterior aspect of the forearm, 3 c霉n proximal to the wrist, midway between the radius and the ulna.
    Modern indications: Tinnitus; deafness; fulminant loss of voice; scrofula; rib-side pain; constipation; febrile disease.
  • TB-9 鍥涙笌 銆斿洓鐎嗐晄矛 d煤, Four Rivers
    Modern location: On the posterior aspect of the forearm, 5 c霉n distal to the tip of the olecranon, midway between the radius and the ulna.
    Modern indications: Deafness; painful swollen throat; fulminant loss of voice; toothache; impediment pain (b矛 t貌ng) in the upper limbs.
  • TB-12 娑堟澈 銆旀秷婵笺晉i膩o lu貌, Dispersing Riverbed
    Modern location: On the posterior aspect of the upper arm, along the line connecting the tip of the olecranon and the acromial angle, midway between TB-11 (q墨ng l臎ng yu膩n) and TB-13 (n脿o hu矛).
    Modern indications: Headache; toothache; stiff nape; shoulder and back pain.
  • TB-13 鑷戜細 銆旇噾鏈冦昻脿o hu矛, Upper Arm Convergence
    Modern location: On the posterior aspect of the upper arm, on the line connecting the olecranon and the acromial angle, about 4 c霉n inferior to the acromial angle at the posterior border of the deltoid muscle.
    Modern indications: Goiter; scrofula; impediment pain (b矛 t貌ng) in the upper limbs.
  • TB-15 澶╅珟 銆斿ぉ楂庛晅i膩n li谩o, Celestial Bone-Hole
    Modern location: On the upper back, in the body of the trapezius muscle, immediately above the superior angle of the scapula, midway between SI-13 (n脿o hu矛) and GB-21 (f膿ng sh矛).
    Modern indications: Shoulder and arm pain; painful stiffness of the neck and nape.
  • TB-18 鐦堣剦 銆旂槇鑴堛晀矛 m脿i, Tugging Vessel
    Modern location: On the lateral aspect of the head, posterior to the helix of the ear, at the center of the mastoid process, one third of the distance around the arc formed by connecting TB-17 and TB-20.
    Modern indications: Headache; tinnitus; deafness; child fright wind.
  • TB-19 棰呮伅 銆旈”鎭昹煤 x墨, Skull Rest
    Modern location: On the lateral aspect of the head, posterior to the helix of the ear, in the depression two-thirds of the distance around the arc formed by connecting TB-17 and TB-20.
    Modern indications: Headache; tinnitus; deafness; child fright wind.