Nomenclature
How points are named and coded, and where the codes stop agreeing with each other.
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Command points and the four gates
The four-line verse that assigns ST36, BL40, LU07 and LI04 to four regions of the body, the Ming texts that record it, and how the Lingshu's four gates came to mean LI04 with LV03.
Classical and modern · Practitioner · 9 min
Extra points
Points outside the fourteen channels: how the WHO chose its 48, how China lists them, and how one point can carry three codes.
Classical and modern · Practitioner · 6 min
Measuring in cun
How point locations are written in proportional and finger cun, what the WHO and Chinese standards set out, and what studies found when they compared the two.
Classical and modern · Practitioner · 10 min
Point location references
The two standards that fix where acupuncture points lie, the textbooks beside them, where the standards part company, and what studies found when practitioners marked the same points.
Classical and modern · Practitioner · 8 min
Point names in translation
How a point's Chinese name is built, what the WHO's 1993 explanations say each name means, and how far the English renderings differ.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 7 min
Reading a point code
What LI04, XH03 and MS06 each mean, and where AcuiQ spells them differently.
Classical and modern · Anyone · 6 min
The Chinese auricular standard
GB/T 13734-2008, China's national standard for ear points: its 93 points in 10 regions, how its zone codes are built, the rules it sets for names, what it changed from 1992, and the history of names in its annexes.
Classical and modern · Practitioner · 11 min