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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.

Searches

  • 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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YAS, Y谩ng Springing (y谩ng qi膩o) Vessel Points

  • BL-1 鐫涙槑 銆旂潧鏄庛昷墨ng m铆ng, Bright Eyes
    Modern location: On the face, 0.1 c霉n directly above the inner canthus of the eye, in the space between the eyeball and the bones forming the medial orbit.
    Modern indications: Painful red swollen eyes; tearing; unclear vision; night blindness; color blindness.
  • LI-15 鑲╅珒 銆旇偐楂冦昷i膩n y煤, Shoulder Bone
    Modern location: On the lateral aspect of the shoulder, inferior to the acromioclavicular articulation, between the anterior and medial portions of the deltoid muscle, in the most anterior of the depressions that form when the arm is abducted.
    Modern indications: Hypertonicity, pain, or paralysis of the shoulder and arm; stiff neck and nape; dormant papules; scrofula.
  • LI-16 宸ㄩ 銆斿法楠ㄣ昷霉 g菙, Great Bone
    Modern location: On the superior aspect of the shoulder, medial and slightly posterior to the bony prominence of the acromioclavicular articulation, in the depression at the lateral end of the supraspinous fossa.
    Modern indications: Hypertonicity, pain, or paralysis of the shoulder and upper arm; scrofula; goiter.
  • GB-20 椋庢睜 銆旈ⅷ姹犮昮膿ng ch铆, Wind Pool
    Modern location: On the posterior aspect of the neck, below the occipital bone, in the large depression between the trapezius and the sternocleidomastoid muscles.
    Modern indications: Headache; dizzy vision; painful red swollen eyes; deep-source nasal congestion; snivelingand nosebleed; tinnitus; painful stiffness of the neck and nape; common cold; epilepsy; wind stroke; goiter; febrile disease; malarial disease; goiter.
  • GB-29 灞呴珟 銆斿眳楂庛昷奴 li谩o, Squatting Bone-Hole
    Modern location: On the lateral aspect of the hip, in the body of the tensor fascia lata muscle, midway between the anterior superior iliac spine (asis) and the prominence of the greater trochanter.
    Modern indications: Lumbar pain; wilting-impediment (w臎i b矛) of the lower limbs; mounting q矛 (sh脿n q矛, inguinal hernia).
  • BL-59 璺楅槼 銆旇窏闄姐昮奴 y谩ng, Instep Y谩ng
    Modern location: On the lateral aspect of the lower leg, 3 c霉n superior to the tip of the lateral malleolus, midway between the Achilles tendon (t. calcaneus) and the posterior edge of the fibula.
    Modern indications: Headache; lumbosacral pain; wilting-impediment (w臎i b矛) of the lower limbs; painful swelling of the external malleolus; paralysis.
  • BL-62 鐢宠剦 銆旂敵鑴堛晄h膿n m脿i, Extending Vessel
    Modern location: On the lateral aspect of the foot, in the depression immediately inferior to the lateral malleolus.
    Modern indications: Headache; dizziness; epilepsy; mania and withdrawal; aching pain in the lumbus and legs; painful red eyes; pain in the lumbus and leg.