Point chart: Lung channel of arm taiyin, Chinese 1909

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Point chart: Lung channel of arm taiyin, Chinese 1909. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Chinese woodcut showing points on the lung channel of arm taiyin. From the eleventh-century classic Bu zhu tongren shuxue zhenjiu tujing (Illustrated Acupuncture and Moxibustion Canon of the Bronze Man with Notes and Commentary) by Wang Weiyi, in an edition of 1909 (1st year of the Xuantong reign period of the Qing dynasty). The labelled points are chize (Foot Marsh), jingqu (Channel Ditch), taiyuan (Great Abyss), yuji (Fish Border) and shaoshang (Lesser Shang).

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