Acupoints Search

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This is the Acupoints section of CMD, which presents 400 or so channel and nonchannel points with location, classical location, local anatomy, indications, traditional indications, needling depth, stimulus, and point groups they belong to, and the meanings of their Chinese names. Links to the Dictionary table are provided.

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You can select any item from the list appearing below this panel.

    Menu

    You can select any item from the list appearing below the search box.

    • Click Channel to access information in the Dictionary about the channel of interest.
    • Click on Acupoints to see a preview list of all the points on the channel. Just click on the one that interests you.

Searches

  • First, select Headword only or Headword and Text depending on whether you wish to search in the heading of an entry/article or through the heading and the text below it.
  • Then, in the search box, enter alphanumeric codes (e.g., LU-1), unaccented Pīnyīn, simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese, or English (literal translation of the point name).
    Note that joined-up Pīnyīn can be used to search for headwords, but not the whole text.
  • After entering your search word(s), you will see the Search Results appear. You can select
    • Starting with to give you headwords that start with your search string or
    • Containing to give headwords that contain (or the text of which contains) your search string.
  • A filter box below Results allows you to insert another search string to narrow your search. So, for example, if your search string is blood vacuity, you can add headache in the filter box. To find all acupoints in which blood vacuity and headache both appear, either in the headword or headword and text, depending on which selection you have made.

Links

  • The texts include copious links to the Dictionary table.
  • For those studying Chinese, each character of the Chinese headword is linked to the Terms table, where examples of its use can be found, together with links to stroke order animations.

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PC, Hand Reverting Yīn (jué yīn) Pericardium Channel Points

  • PC-1 天池 〔天池〕tiān chí, Celestial Pool
    Modern location: On the chest, 1 cùn lateral and slightly superior to the nipple, in the fourth intercostal space.
    Modern indications: Cough; panting; oppression in the chest; rib-side pain; scrofula; mammary welling-abscess (rǔ yōng).
  • PC-2 天泉 〔天泉〕tiān quán, Celestial Spring
    Modern location: On the upper arm, 2 cùn inferior to the level of the anterior axillary fold, between the two heads of the biceps brachii muscle.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; cough; distension and pain in the rib-side; arm pain.
  • PC-3 曲泽 〔曲澤〕qū zé, Marsh at the Bend
    Modern location: At the elbow, on the cubital crease, in the depression on the ulnar side of the biceps brachii tendon.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; stomach pain; vomiting and retching; diarrhea; febrile disease; pain in the elbow and arm.
  • PC-4 郄门 〔郄門〕xī mén, Cleft Gate
    Modern location: On the palmar aspect of the forearm, 5 cùn proximal to the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; vomiting of blood (blood ejection); coughing of blood; clove sores (dīng chuāng); epilepsy.
  • PC-5 间使 〔間使〕jiān shǐ, Intermediary Courier
    Modern location: On the palmar aspect of the forearm, 3 cùn proximal to the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; stomach pain; vomiting and retching; febrile disease; malarial disease; mania and withdrawal; epilepsy.
  • PC-6 内关 〔內關〕nèi guān, Inner Pass
    Modern location: On the palmar aspect of the forearm, 2 cùn proximal to the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; oppression in the chest; stomach pain; vomiting and retching; epilepsy; febrile disease; malarial disease; impediment pain of the upper limbs; hemiplegia; insomnia; dizziness; hemilateral headache.
  • PC-7 大陵 〔大陵〕dà líng, Great Mound
    Modern location: On the palmar aspect of the forearm, at the wrist crease, between the tendons of the palmaris longus and the flexor carpi radialis muscles.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; heart palpitation; stomach pain; vomiting and retching; mania and withdrawal; chest and rib-side pain; sores.
  • PC-8 劳宫 〔勞宮〕láo gōng, Palace of Toil
    Modern location: On the palm, between the second and third metacarpal bones, immediately proximal to the metacarpophalangeal (mcp) joints.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; vomiting and retching; mania and withdrawal; epilepsy; mouth sores; fetid mouth odor.
  • PC-9 中冲 〔中衝〕zhōng chōng, Central Hub
    Modern location: A little more than 1 fēn below the base of the nail on the radial side of the middle finger.
    Modern indications: Heart pain; clouding reversal (loss of consciousness); painful stiff swollen tongue preventing speech; febrile disease; summerheat stroke; night crying in children.