{"$schema":"https://acuiq.com/research/auricular-crosswalk.json","name":"AcuiQ auricular point crosswalk","version":"1.0.0","updated":"2026-07-26","license":"CC BY 4.0","article":"https://acuiq.com/research/codes-are-not-identifiers","description":"Maps auricular acupuncture point codes as published in the ISO/WFAS literature onto the AcuiQ catalogue. The two schemes share the prefixes AH, AT, TF and HX but number them differently, so a code written in one and read in the other can resolve to a real but different point without raising an error. Each mapping was read from a source article's own name-and-code pairing and matched on the Chinese name.","method":"Full text pulled from Europe PMC for each cited article; the author's printed pairing of point name to code was taken as authoritative for that article and matched to the catalogue on the Chinese name. Mappings taken from the standard rather than a printed pairing are marked confidence: \"inferred\".","caveats":["Entries with scopedToDoi apply only to that article, which numbers points differently from the standard.","ISO 皮質下 (Subcortex) is one point; the AcuiQ catalogue subdivides it into AT12 nervous, AT13 digestive and AT14 coronary-vascular. AT12 is used throughout.","Scalp acupuncture lines MS1-MS14 have no equivalent in the catalogue and are not covered.","Coverage is auricular only. Channel-point aliases are handled separately."],"stats":{"mappings":23,"articleVerified":21,"colliding":8,"corpus":{"pointReferences":48579,"protocolRows":18838,"rowsAffected":23,"silentWrongPoint":37,"dropped":60}},"mappings":[{"iso":"CO1","catalogue":"HCS3","name":"Mouth","chinese":"口","pinyin":"kǒu","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC4261582","quote":"mouth (CO1)","collides":false},{"iso":"CO4","catalogue":"CYC01","name":"Stomach","chinese":"胃","pinyin":"wèi","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"CO4 Wei 胃","collides":false},{"iso":"CO6","catalogue":"CYC03","name":"Small Intestine","chinese":"小腸","pinyin":"xiǎo cháng","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"CO6 Xiaochang 小肠","collides":false},{"iso":"CO7","catalogue":"CYC05","name":"Large Intestine","chinese":"大腸","pinyin":"dà cháng","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"CO7 Dachang 大肠","collides":false},{"iso":"CO10","catalogue":"CYC11","name":"Kidney","chinese":"腎","pinyin":"shèn","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"CO10 Shen 肾","collides":false},{"iso":"CO12","catalogue":"CYC08","name":"Liver","chinese":"肝","pinyin":"gān","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC8292057","quote":"liver (CO12)","collides":false},{"iso":"CO13","catalogue":"CVC06","name":"Spleen","chinese":"脾","pinyin":"pí","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"CO13 Pi 脾","collides":false},{"iso":"CO14","catalogue":"CVC02","name":"Lung","chinese":"肺","pinyin":"fèi","confidence":"inferred","source":"PMC8710762","note":"Listed in the trial table without a printed name; taken from the standard.","collides":false},{"iso":"CO15","catalogue":"CVC01","name":"Heart","chinese":"心","pinyin":"xīn","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC3523683","quote":"auricular acupoint \"Heart\" (CO 15)","collides":false},{"iso":"CO17","catalogue":"CVC09","name":"San Jiao","chinese":"三焦","pinyin":"sān jiāo","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"CO17 Sanjiao 三焦","collides":false},{"iso":"CO18","catalogue":"IN01","name":"Endocrine","chinese":"內分泌","pinyin":"nèi fēn mì","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"CO18 Neifenmi 内分泌","collides":false},{"iso":"HX1","catalogue":"HCS2","name":"Ear Center","chinese":"耳中","pinyin":"ěr zhōng","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC4261582","quote":"center of ear (HX1)","collides":true,"wasReadAs":"HX01, a different helix point"},{"iso":"LO5","catalogue":"EL10","name":"Eye","chinese":"眼","pinyin":"yǎn","confidence":"inferred","source":"GB/T 13734-2008","note":"Source article not in PMC; taken from the standard and consistent with its myopia protocol.","collides":false},{"iso":"TF1","catalogue":"TF04","name":"Decrease Blood Pressure Point","chinese":"降壓點","pinyin":"jiàng yā diǎn","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC8292057","quote":"superior triangular fossa (TF1) … Jiaowoshang (TF1)","collides":true,"wasReadAs":"TF01 Adnexa"},{"iso":"TF4","catalogue":"TF10","name":"Shenmen","chinese":"神門","pinyin":"shén mén","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"TF4 Shenmen 神门 — printed identically in six of the ten source articles","collides":true,"wasReadAs":"TF04 Decrease Blood Pressure Point","note":"The most-used auricular point in the literature and the most-damaging collision."},{"iso":"TEF3","catalogue":"TF10","name":"Shenmen","chinese":"神門","pinyin":"shén mén","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC7695492","quote":"auricle shenmen (TEF3)","collides":false,"note":"A non-standard spelling of the same point."},{"iso":"AH6a","catalogue":"IAC03","name":"Sympathetic","chinese":"交感","pinyin":"jiāo gǎn","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"AH6a Jiaogan 交感","collides":false,"note":"Catalogued under the inferior antihelix crus, where the point sits."},{"iso":"AH9","catalogue":"AH03","name":"Lumbar","chinese":"腰","pinyin":"yāo","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC12271432","quote":"Lumbar Spine (AH9)","collides":true,"wasReadAs":"AH09 Lumbar Muscles Area 腰骶椎外側腰肌區 — the paraspinal muscle zone, not the vertebrae"},{"iso":"AT3","catalogue":"AT07","name":"Occiput","chinese":"枕","pinyin":"zhěn","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC8292057","quote":"occiput (AT3)","collides":true,"wasReadAs":"AT03 Vertex"},{"iso":"AT4","catalogue":"AT12","name":"Nervous Subcortex","chinese":"皮質下","pinyin":"pí zhì xià","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC11668611","quote":"AT4 Pizhixia 皮质下","collides":true,"wasReadAs":"AT04 Parotid","note":"One ISO point, three catalogue subdivisions (AT12 nervous, AT13 digestive, AT14 coronary-vascular). Mapped to AT12 throughout; AT13 is equally defensible for gastrointestinal indications."},{"iso":"AT1","catalogue":"AT05","name":"Forehead","chinese":"額","pinyin":"é","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC6658225","quote":"\"forehead\" (AT 1)","collides":true,"wasReadAs":"AT01 Stop Asthma","scopedToDoi":"10.2196/14386","note":"The standard puts the antitragic apex at AT1. This paper does not."},{"iso":"AT5","catalogue":"AT12","name":"Nervous Subcortex","chinese":"皮質下","pinyin":"pí zhì xià","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC9072178","quote":"subcortex (AT5)","collides":true,"wasReadAs":"AT05 Forehead","scopedToDoi":"10.1016/j.apjon.2021.11.002","note":"Numbers subcortex AT5 where every other source uses AT4."},{"iso":"IC6","catalogue":"HCS3","name":"Mouth","chinese":"口","pinyin":"kǒu","confidence":"article-verified","source":"PMC9072178","quote":"mouth (IC6)","collides":false,"scopedToDoi":"10.1016/j.apjon.2021.11.002","note":"Uses an inferior-concha prefix for the point the standard codes CO1."}]}