(1) Zhongkui acupoint (EX-DH 1 ) :
Location: At the midpoint of dorsal crease of proximal interphalangeal joint of middle finger (Fig. 2-13).
Indications: Dysphagia and vomiting (moxibustion allowed).
(2) Baxie acupoints (EX-DH 2) :
Location: They are on the dorsopalmar boundary of hand between each pair of neighboring fingers, on both hands, 8 in all (Fig. 2-13).
Indications: Fever with irritability, eye pain, swelling and pain in dorsum of hand, and poisonous snake bite.
(3) Waist and leg pain acupoints (EX-DH 3) :
Location: They are 1.5 cun distal to the dorsal crease of wrist, one on the radial side of tendon of extensor muscle of index finger and another one on the ulnar side of tendon of extensor muscle of ring finger, 2 points on each hand; the first is called Weiling, and the second is called Jingling in Tuina (traditional massage) for children (Fig. 2-14a).
Indications: Sprain, rheumatism and strain with acute or chronic pain in waist and leg (better for acute attack in waist),
sudden death of children due to convulsions, coma, asthma with phlegm and whistling, vomiting without vomitus, indigestive malnutrition, and pterygium.
(4) Arthralgia acupoint (EX-DH 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d) :
Location: This is a group of acupoints arrayed near the dorsopalmar boundary of the hand. The elbow pain acupoint is at the midpoint of palmar crease of metacarpophalangeal joint of thumb (EX-DH 4d, Fig. 2-14b) ; the knee pain acupoint (EX-DH 4a) is at the midpoint of dorsal crease of metacarpophalangeal joint of thumb; the ankle pain acupoint (EX-DH 4b) is on the radial
side of metacarpophalangeal joint of thumb and on the dorsopalmar boundary of the hand; and the shoulder pain acupoint (EX-DH 4c) is on the radial side of metacarpophalangeal joint of index finger and on the dorsopalmar boundary of the hand (Fig. 2-14a).
1-waist and leg pain 2-knee pain 3-ankle pain 4-shoulder pain 5-eye pain 6-frontal headache 7-parietal headache 8-temporai
headache 9-occipital headache 10perineai pain 11-spine pain 12-sciatic neuralgia 13-sore throat 14-stiff neck 15-nasal
bleeding 16-hypertensing 17-Yangxi (LI 5) 18-Yangchi (TE 4) 19-brain 20-throracic spine pain 21-hypotensing 22-diaphragm 23-diarrhea
Indications: Pain of various joints due to rheumatism or sprain.
