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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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    You can select any item from the list appearing below the search box.

    • 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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PC, Hand Reverting Y墨n (ju茅 y墨n) Pericardium Channel Points

  • PC-1 澶╂睜 銆斿ぉ姹犮晅i膩n ch铆, Celestial Pool
    Modern location: On the chest, 1 c霉n lateral and slightly superior to the nipple, in the fourth intercostal space.
    Modern indications: Cough; panting; oppression in the chest; rib-side pain; scrofula; mammary welling-abscess (r菙 y艒ng).
  • PC-3 鏇叉辰 銆旀洸婢ゃ晀奴 z茅, Marsh at the Bend
    Modern location: At the elbow, on the cubital crease, in the depression on the ulnar side of the biceps brachii tendon.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; stomach pain; vomiting and retching; diarrhea; febrile disease; pain in the elbow and arm.
  • PC-4 閮勯棬 銆旈儎闁銆晉墨 m茅n, Cleft Gate
    Modern location: On the palmar aspect of the forearm, 5 c霉n proximal to the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; vomiting of blood (blood ejection); coughing of blood; clove sores (d墨ng chu膩ng); epilepsy.
  • PC-5 闂翠娇 銆旈枔浣裤昷i膩n sh菒, Intermediary Courier
    Modern location: On the palmar aspect of the forearm, 3 c霉n proximal to the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; stomach pain; vomiting and retching; febrile disease; malarial disease; mania and withdrawal; epilepsy.
  • PC-6 鍐呭叧 銆斿収闂溿昻猫i gu膩n, Inner Pass
    Modern location: On the palmar aspect of the forearm, 2 c霉n proximal to the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; oppression in the chest; stomach pain; vomiting and retching; epilepsy; febrile disease; malarial disease; impediment pain of the upper limbs; hemiplegia; insomnia; dizziness; hemilateral headache.
  • PC-7 澶ч櫟 銆斿ぇ闄点昫脿 l铆ng, Great Mound
    Modern location: On the palmar aspect of the forearm, at the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; stomach pain; vomiting and retching; mania and withdrawal; chest and rib-side pain; sores.
  • PC-8 鍔冲 銆斿嫗瀹昹谩o g艒ng, Palace of Toil
    Modern location: On the palm, between the second and third metacarpal bones, immediately proximal to the metacarpophalangeal (mcp) joints.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; vomiting and retching; mania and withdrawal; epilepsy; mouth sores; fetid mouth odor.
  • PC-9 涓啿 銆斾腑琛濄晍h艒ng ch艒ng, Central Hub
    Modern location: A little more than 1 f膿n below the base of the nail on the radial side of the middle finger.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; clouding reversal (loss of consciousness); painful stiff swollen tongue preventing speech; febrile disease; summerheat stroke; night crying in children.