Acu-moxa point chart, showing theyanglingquan(Yang Mound Spring) 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: Theyanglingquanpoint is located below the knee, in the depression at the outer edge of the head of the fibula. It can be needled to a depth of 6fen(1fen[0.1cun/Chinese proportional inch] = c. 0.3 cm), and moxibusted with seven moxa cones. It is indicated for pain and swelling in the feet and knees; wind-cold-damp blockage disease (bi); one-sided paralysis; heavy, aching feeling in the back, making it difficult to sit or stand; facial oedema (fuzhong); distention and feeling of fullness (zhangman) in the chest, etc.
Coloured Painting