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[edit]C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Hegu | |||
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C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Hegu |
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Acu-moxa point chart, showing thehegu(Joining the Valley) point, fromChuanwu 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). It is illustrated with 84 charts, finely executed in colour.The text states: Thehegupoint is located on the back of the hand, in the depression between between the first and second metacarpal bones. It can be needled to a depth of 3fen(1fen[0.1cun/Chinese proportional inch] = c. 0.3 cm), and moxibusted with three moxa cones. It is indicated for one-sided headache, facial oedema (fuzhong), malarial chills and fever (hanre), fever with uncontrollable sweating, nebula (yizhang) obscuring the vision, toothache, toothache, nosebleeds, lockjaw, etc. 1869 |
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Wellcome Images Keywords: Acu-moxa, Chinese Medicine, TCM, Medicine, Chinese Traditional, Moxibustion, Acupuncture Points |
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