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The Eight Meeting Points, Chinese, Ming period
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The Eight Meeting Points, Chinese, Ming period
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Woodcut showing the Eight Meeting Points (ba hui xue); illustration of 'Problem 45' fromTu zhu ba shi yi nan jing bianzhen(Corrected Edition of the Canon of Problems, Illustrated and Annotated), published in the Wan Li reign period of the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620).

The Eight Meeting Points or Converging Points (ba hui xue,ba hui) refers to the eight acu-moxa locations where the eight kinds of essential Qi -zang,fu, Qi, blood, tendons,maiVessels, bone and marrow -- are focused.Fuconverges at thetaicang(Great Granary) point (here this indicates thezhongwan(Middle Cavity) point);zangconverges at thejixiepoint (location corresponding to the cartilage of the 11th and 12th ribs, here indicatingzhangmen, Completion Portal); the tendons converge at the yanglingquan (Yang Mound Spring) point; marrow converges at thejuegu(Severed Bone) point; blood converges at thegeshu(Diaphragm Conveyor) point; bone converges at thedazhu(Great Shuttle) point; themaiVessels converge at the taiyuan (Great Abyss) point; and Qi converges in thesanjiao(Triple Burner) (i.edanzhong, Chest Centre).

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Keywords: Acupuncture; Ming period (1368-1644); Eight Meeting Points; Acupuncture Points; Medicine, Chinese Traditional
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