Nomenclature
How points are named and coded, and where the codes stop agreeing with each other.
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Back-shu and front-mu points
The back-shu points on the bladder channel and the front-mu points on the chest and abdomen, paired organ by organ with their spinal levels, from the Lingshu, the Maijing and the WHO location standard.
Classical · Practitioner · 7 min
Five transport points
The jing-well, ying-spring, shu-stream, jing-river and he-sea points of the twelve channels, as the Lingshu, the Nanjing and the Zhenjiu jiayi jing assign them, with the five-phase and mother-child rules built on them.
Classical · Practitioner · 9 min
Influential and confluent points
The eight influential points of the Nanjing, the eight confluent points that open the extraordinary vessels, and the lower he-sea points of the six fu from the Lingshu.
Classical · Practitioner · 7 min
Source, connecting and cleft points
The yuan-source, luo-connecting and xi-cleft points of every channel, from the Lingshu, the Nanjing and the Zhenjiu jiayi jing, including the great connecting vessel of the spleen and the clefts of four extraordinary vessels.
Classical · Practitioner · 7 min