Acu-moxa point chart, showing the kunlun 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: The kunlun point is located is located 5 cun posterior to the external malleolus, in the depression above the heelbone. 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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