Extra Points: Upper limbs

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 肘尖 (zhǒu jiān)

🎯 Location: On the posterior side of the elbow, at the tip of the olecranon the when the elbow is flexed.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in acute elbow injury.

🛡️ Treats: phlegm, swelling, abscess:intestine, carbuncle, scrofula

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 二白 (èr bái)

🎯 Location: Two points on the palmar side of the each forearm, 4 thumb widths proximal to the crease of the wrist, on the each side of the tendon of the radial flexor muscle of the wrist..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, prolapse:rectum, tenesmus, haemorrhoids, stools:blood

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 二白 (èr bái)

🎯 Location: Two points on the palmar side of the each forearm, 4 thumb widths proximal to the crease of the wrist, on the each side of the tendon of the radial flexor muscle of the wrist..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:chest, prolapse:rectum, tenesmus, haemorrhoids, stools:blood

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 中泉 (zhōng quán)

🎯 Location: On the dorsal aspect of the wrist joint space (dorsal wrist crease), radial to the tendon of the extensor digitorum communis muscle..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: asthma, fullness:chest, distension:abdomen, stagnation:blood, heartache

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 中魁 (zhōng kuí)

🎯 Location: On the dorsal aspect of the middle finger, in the centre of the transverse creases of the proximal interphalangeal joint..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: vomiting, epistaxis, hiccups, appetite:loss, nausea

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 大骨空 (dà gǔ kōng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsal aspect of the thumb, in the centre of the transverse creases of the interphalangeal joint..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, vomiting, pain, epistaxis, pain:eye

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 小骨空 (xiǎo gǔ kōng)

🎯 Location: At the midpoint of the proximal interphalangeal joint on the dorsal side of the little finger..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: heat, pain, deafness, pain:hand, pain:throat:soreness

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腰痛穴 (yāo tòng xué)

🎯 Location: Two points between the second & third & the fourth & fifth metacarpal bones, in the depressions lying immediately distal to the bases of the metacarpals.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, pain:back:lumbar, pain:headache, redness:hand:dorsum

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 腰痛穴 (yāo tòng xué)

🎯 Location: Two points between the second & third & the fourth & fifth metacarpal bones, in the depressions lying immediately distal to the bases of the metacarpals.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, pain:back:lumbar, pain:headache, redness:hand:dorsum

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 外劳宫 / 落枕 (wài láo gōng / luò zhěn)

🎯 Location: On the back side of the hand, between the 2nd and 3rd metacarpals, and behind the metacarpophalangeal joint..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: diarrhoea, pain:abdomen, pain:shoulder, pain:epigastrium, pain:arm

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八邪 (bā xié)

🎯 Location: When the hand is made into the a fist, six of the these points lie in the depressions between the metacarpal heads, proximal to the web margins. the remaining two points lie equidistant between the thumb & index metacarpals, proximal to the web margins.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stiffness:finger, swelling, pain:finger, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八邪 (bā xié)

🎯 Location: When the hand is made into the a fist, six of the these points lie in the depressions between the metacarpal heads, proximal to the web margins. the remaining two points lie equidistant between the thumb & index metacarpals, proximal to the web margins.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stiffness:finger, swelling, pain:finger, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八邪 (bā xié)

🎯 Location: When the hand is made into the a fist, six of the these points lie in the depressions between the metacarpal heads, proximal to the web margins. the remaining two points lie equidistant between the thumb & index metacarpals, proximal to the web margins.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stiffness:finger, swelling, pain:finger, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八邪 (bā xié)

🎯 Location: When the hand is made into the a fist, six of the these points lie in the depressions between the metacarpal heads, proximal to the web margins. the remaining two points lie equidistant between the thumb & index metacarpals, proximal to the web margins.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stiffness:finger, swelling, pain:finger, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八邪 (bā xié)

🎯 Location: When the hand is made into the a fist, six of the these points lie in the depressions between the metacarpal heads, proximal to the web margins. the remaining two points lie equidistant between the thumb & index metacarpals, proximal to the web margins.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stiffness:finger, swelling, pain:finger, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八邪 (bā xié)

🎯 Location: When the hand is made into the a fist, six of the these points lie in the depressions between the metacarpal heads, proximal to the web margins. the remaining two points lie equidistant between the thumb & index metacarpals, proximal to the web margins.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stiffness:finger, swelling, pain:finger, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八邪 (bā xié)

🎯 Location: When the hand is made into the a fist, six of the these points lie in the depressions between the metacarpal heads, proximal to the web margins. the remaining two points lie equidistant between the thumb & index metacarpals, proximal to the web margins.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stiffness:finger, swelling, pain:finger, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 八邪 (bā xié)

🎯 Location: When the hand is made into the a fist, six of the these points lie in the depressions between the metacarpal heads, proximal to the web margins. the remaining two points lie equidistant between the thumb & index metacarpals, proximal to the web margins.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: heat, stiffness:finger, swelling, pain:finger, pain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四縫 (sì féng)

🎯 Location: Four points on the each hand, on the palmer side of the 2nd to the 5th fingers and at the centre of the proximal interphalangeal joints.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: weakness:spleen, asthma, stagnation:food, cough:whooping, deficiency:nutrition:infantile

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四縫 (sì féng)

🎯 Location: Four points on the each hand, on the palmer side of the 2nd to the 5th fingers and at the centre of the proximal interphalangeal joints.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: weakness:spleen, asthma, stagnation:food, cough:whooping, deficiency:nutrition:infantile

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四縫 (sì féng)

🎯 Location: Four points on the each hand, on the palmer side of the 2nd to the 5th fingers and at the centre of the proximal interphalangeal joints.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: weakness:spleen, asthma, stagnation:food, cough:whooping, deficiency:nutrition:infantile

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 四縫 (sì féng)

🎯 Location: Four points on the each hand, on the palmer side of the 2nd to the 5th fingers and at the centre of the proximal interphalangeal joints.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: weakness:spleen, asthma, stagnation:food, cough:whooping, deficiency:nutrition:infantile

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 十宣 (shí xuān)

🎯 Location: On the tips of the ten fingers, approximately 0.1 thumb width from the fingernail.

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: fever, diarrhoea, heat, vomiting, wind

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 肩前 / 肩內陵穴 (jiān qián / jiān nèi líng xué)

🎯 Location: On the anterior aspect of the shoulder joint, midway between the anterior axillary crease & jianyu l.i.-15. at the medial condyle of the shoulder joint..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute shoulder injury.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, numbness, pain:arm, benefit:shoulders

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 上都 (shàng dū)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the hand, between the second and third metacarpophalangeal joints..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, pain, immobility:back:lumbar:sprain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 下肚 (xià dù)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the hand, between the fourth and fifth metacarpal bones, proximal to the metacarpophalangeal joint..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: tinnitus, stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, pain, pruritis:cutaneous

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 閃腰 (shǎn yāo)

🎯 Location: Three points consisting of the quchi (li11), 1 thumb width towards shousanli (ll10) and 1 thumb width towards the olecranon..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute low back injury.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, pain, pain:back:lumbar, immobility:back:lumbar:sprain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 閃腰 (shǎn yāo)

🎯 Location: Three points consisting of the quchi (li11), 1 thumb width towards shousanli (ll10) and 1 thumb width towards the olecranon..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute low back injury.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, pain, pain:back:lumbar, immobility:back:lumbar:sprain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 閃腰 (shǎn yāo)

🎯 Location: Three points consisting of the quchi (li11), 1 thumb width towards shousanli (ll10) and 1 thumb width towards the olecranon..

⚠️ Cautions: Caution in acute low back injury.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, pain, pain:back:lumbar, immobility:back:lumbar:sprain

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 斷紅 (duàn hóng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the palm, between and distal to the second and third phalangeal-carpal joints..

⚠️ Cautions: Avoid in patients with bleeding disorders.

🛡️ Treats: weakness:spleen, bleeding:uterine:abnormal, raise:yang, weakness:liver

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 尿控 (niào kòng)

🎯 Location: On the palmar surface of the hand, at the midpoint of the first transverse crease of the little finger..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: weakness:kidney, enuresis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 牙痛零 (yá tòng líng)

🎯 Location: On the palmar aspect of the hand, between the third and fourth metacarpophalangeal joints..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: wind, swelling, pain:toothache, heat:fire

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 天動 (tiān dòng)

🎯 Location: Center point between gv 14 and cv 22, below si 16, behind li 17 at the corner of the neck and shoulder, angling 45 degrees downward towards c7..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: disease:alzheimer's, tumour:brain, dyslexia, dementia:vascular, multiple sclerosis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 手妮 (shǒu nī)

🎯 Location: On the midline of the medial aspect of the arm, at the midpoint of the line connecting the transverse crease of the wrist and elbow..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: stagnation:qi, stagnation:blood, cold:yang, thromboangitis obliterans

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 甜味穴 (tián wèi xué)

🎯 Location: On the hand, at the midpoint of the line connecting lieque (lu7) and yangxi (li5).

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: detoxify:poison, calm:mind, addiction, addiction:smoking

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 牙痛 (yá tòng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsal aspect of the hand, at the centre of the 1st metacarpophalangeal joint..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: wind, swelling, pain:toothache, heat:fire

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 大白 (dà bái)

🎯 Location: In the depression the 0.5 thumb widths proximal to the junction the between the 1st and 2nd metacarpal bones..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:knee, sciatica, cold:yang, regulate:qi, tonify:qi

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 靈骨 (líng gǔ)

🎯 Location: On the dorsal side of the hand between the index and thumb, the 1st and 2nd metacarpal bones, 1.2 thumb widths from da bai..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:knee, pain:back, sciatica, pain:headache, pain:back:inferior

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 消顫穴 (xiāo chàn xué)

🎯 Location: At the medial forearm, in the depression, 0.5-1 thumb width inferior to the ht3.

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: wind:liver, tremor, disease:parkinson's

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 金陵 (jīn líng)

🎯 Location: On the dorsum of the hand, at the proximal border of the interspace of the 4th and 5th metacarpal bones, in the depression the at the midpoint between the transverse crease of the wrist and the sall head of the metacarpal bone..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: swelling, calm:spirit:shen, spasm, biliary ascariasis

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 子托 (zǐ tuō)

🎯 Location: On the medial aspect of the hand, 0.5 thumb widths distal to the midpoint of the transverse crease of the wrist..

⚠️ Cautions: Contraindicated during pregnancy.

🛡️ Treats: vomiting, qi:stomach

🗺️ Meridian: Extra Points: Upper limbs

🇨🇳 Chinese: 臂中 (bì zhōng)

🎯 Location: On the lateral aspect of the forearm, midwary between the transverse wrist crease and elbow crease, between the radius and the ulna..

⚠️ Cautions: No specific contraindications.

🛡️ Treats: pain:breast, paralysis, spasm:arm, contracture:arm, pain:arm:forearm