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Twelve points that Ma Dan-Yáng, a Sòng Dynasty physician, considered the most useful in the treatment of disease. The points were passed on to his students and appeared later written in song form. Ma Dan-Yáng’s twelve heavenly star points are presented below.

Ma Dan-Yáng’s Twelve Heavenly Star Points

• ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ): distension in the heart and abdomen, cold in the stomach, rumbling intestines, swollen legs, aching legs, cold damage emaciation and detriment, and qì gǔ
• ST-44 (Inner Court, 内庭 nèi tíng): reversal (cold) of the four limbs, liking for quiet and aversion to noise, dormant papules, sore throat, yawning, toothache, malaria, and inability to eat
• LI-11 (Pool at the Bend, 曲池 qū chí): pain in the elbow, hemilateral wind preventing the arm from being stretched, slack sinews with inability to brush the hair, blockage of the throat, persistent heat effusion, and hemilateral wind lichen and lài
• LI-4 (Union Valley, 合谷 hé gǔ): headache, malaria, tooth decay, nosebleed, clenched jaw with inability to speak
• BL-40 (Bend Center, 委中 wěi zhōng): lumbar pain, wind impediment fēng bì, inability to stretch the knee
• BL-57 (Mountain Support, 承山 chéng shān): lumbar pain, hemorrhoids, difficult defecation, leg qì with swollen knees, cholera with cramps
• LR-3 (Supreme Surge, 太冲 tài chōng): fright epilepsy wind, distension in the throat and region of the heart,
• BL-60 (Kunlun Mountains, 昆仑 kūn lún): cramps and lumbar pain, fulminant panting and fullness surging into the heart, inability to lift the legs
• GB-30 (Jumping Round, 环跳 huán tiào): lumbar pain, wind-cold-damp impediment fēng hán shī bì with pain in the legs stretching into the calves
• GB-34 (Yáng Mound Spring, 阳陵泉 yáng líng quán): swelling and numbness of the knees, cold wind and hemilateral wind, inability to lift the legs
• HT-5 (Connecting Lǐ, 通里 tōng lǐ): inability to speak, anguish and fearful throbbing; in repletion, swelling of the limbs, and red head and cheeks; in vacuity, inability to eat and sudden loss of voice
• LU-7 (Broken Sequence, 列缺 liè quē): hemilateral headache, hemilateral wind numbness, phlegm-drool frequently welling upward, clenched jaw

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