Acu-moxa point chart, showing the neiting (Inner Courtyard) point, from Chuanwu lingji lu (Record of Sovereign Teachings), by Zhang Youheng, a treatise on acu-moxa in two volumes. This work survives only in a manuscript draft, completed in 1869 (8th year of the Tongzhi reign period of the Qing dynasty). The text states: Neiting is located at the end of the crevice between the second and third toes. It can be needled to a depth of 3 fen and moxibusted with three moxa cones.


Chinese Acu-moxa Point Chart, 1869


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