Acu-moxa point chart, showing the intestinal wind (changfeng) 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 intestinal wind point is beneath the fourteenth vertebra, 1 cun to either side. Moxibustion at this point can cure intestinal wind, bloody bowel discharge (xiaxue) and chronic hemorrhoids of many years duration.
Chinese Acu-moxa Point Chart, 1869
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