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

Heavenly star points

Ma Danyang's twelve heavenly star points: the eleven-point verse of the 1329 Yulong jing, the twelfth point and the attribution added in Ming editions, and what the verse lists each point for.

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 · 8 min

The channel system, counted

Fourteen channels, 361 points, and the 412 more that sit outside them.

Classical · Anyone · 8 min

The thirteen ghost points

Sun Simiao's list of thirteen points for the hundred evils, from the Beiji qianjin yaofang, with the order of needling, the ghost names, the modern points later texts matched them to, and where those matches disagree.

Classical · Practitioner · 10 min

Window of heaven points

The five regions of Tianyou named in Lingshu chapter 21, the ten neck and armpit points listed in its chapter 2, and how the ten came to be called window of heaven points in the twentieth century.