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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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YAL, Y谩ng Linking (y谩ng w茅i) Vessel Points

  • GB-13 鏈 銆旀湰绁炪昩臎n sh茅n, Root Spirit
    Modern location: On the superolateral aspect of the head, 0.5 c霉n within the anterior hairline, one third of the distance from ST-8 to the midline (i.e., GV-24).
    Modern indications: Headache; dizzy vision; epilepsy; child fright wind.
  • GV-15 鍝戦棬 銆斿暈闁銆晊菐 m茅n, Mute鈥檚 Gate
    Modern location: On the posterior aspect of the neck, 0.5 c霉n above the posterior hairline and 0.5 c霉n below GV-16, on the midline.
    Modern indications: Fulminant loss of voice; stiff tongue preventing speech (wind stroke); mania and withdrawal; epilepsy; headache and stiff nape.
  • 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.
  • GB-16 鐩獥 銆旂洰绐椼昺霉 chu膩ng, Eye Window
    Modern location: On the superolateral aspect of the head, 2.0 c霉n within the anterior hairline on the line connecting GB-15 (t贸u l铆n q铆) and GB-20 (f膿ng ch铆).
    Modern indications: Headache; painful red swollen eyes; clear-eye blindness; nasal congestion; epilepsy; painful swelling of the face.
  • GV-16 椋庡簻 銆旈ⅷ搴溿昮膿ng f菙, Wind House
    Modern location: On the posterior aspect of the neck, immediately inferior to the occipital bone on the midline.
    Modern indications: Headache; stiff nape; dizzy vision; painful swollen throat; loss of voice; mania and withdrawal; wind stroke.
  • GB-18 鎵跨伒 銆旀壙闈堛昪h茅ng l铆ng, Spirit Support
    Modern location: On the superolateral aspect of the head, 5.0 c霉n within the anterior hairline on the line connecting GB-15 (t贸u l铆n q铆) and GB-20 (f膿ng ch铆).
    Modern indications: Headache; dizziness; nasal congestion; sniveling nose; nosebleed.
  • GB-19 鑴戠┖ 銆旇叇绌恒昻菐o k艒ng, Brain Hollow
    Modern location: On the back of the head, in a sizable depression lateral to the external occipital protuberance (eop), directly above GB-20 (f膿ng ch铆).
    Modern indications: Headache; dizzy vision; mania and withdrawal; epilepsy; painful stiffness of the neck and nape.
  • 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-21 鑲╀簳 銆旇偐浜曘昷i膩n j菒ng, Shoulder Well
    Modern location: On the superior aspect of the shoulder, midway between the seventh cervical vertebra and the high point of the acromioclavicular articulation.
    Modern indications: Headache and stiff nape; shoulder and back pain; inability to move the arm; mammary welling-abscess (r菙 y艒ng); breast milk stoppage; difficult delivery; scrofula.
  • GB-35 闃充氦 銆旈櫧浜ゃ晊谩ng ji膩o, Y谩ng Intersection
    Modern location: On the lateral aspect of the lower leg, 7 c霉n superior to the tip of the lateral malleolus, on the posterior edge of the peroneus longus muscle in the groove between the peroneus and the soleus muscles.
    Modern indications: Distension and fullness in the chest and rib-side; wilting-impediment (w臎i b矛) of the lower limbs; mania and withdrawal.
  • BL-63 閲戦棬 銆旈噾闁銆昷墨n m茅n, Metal Gate
    Modern location: On the lateral aspect of the foot, in the depression inferior and slightly posterior to the tuberosity of the cuboid bone.
    Modern indications: Headache; epilepsy; child fright wind; lumbar pain; wilting-impediment (w臎i b矛) in the lower limbs; pain in the external malleolus.