Acupuncture prohibitions for pregnancy, Chinese/Japanese

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Chart showing locations on the Stomach channel of leg yangming where acupuncture is prohibited during the sixth month of pregnancy, from Ishinpo [Chinese: Yi xin fang] (Remedies at the Heart of Medicine), by the Japanese author Yasuyori Tanba.

Completed in 984 (2nd year of the Eikan era), this is primarily a classified edition of Chinese medical prescriptions of the Jin (265-420) and Tang (618-907) periods, but it also embraces materia medica, acupuncture and moxibustion, yangsheng ('nourishing life'), mineral elixirs, daoyin (therapeutic movement), dietetic therapy, etc. Juan (volume) 22, Renfu maitu yuejingfa (Channel charts of the pregnant woman with monthly prohibitions), Section 1, contains ten acupuncture prohibition charts, one for each month of gestation.

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Heading: Illustration of the Stomach channel of leg yangming. Labels (names of prohibited points): Dui (Lake); lidui (Sharp Opening); neiting (Inner Courtyard); xiangu (Sunken Valley); chongyang (Rushing Yang); quche (Carpenter's Square) point; jiegu (Split Valley); xialian (Lower Edge); fenglong (Abundant Bulge); tiaokou (Lines Opening); shanglian (Upper Edge); san li (Three Miles); dubi (Calf's Nose); liangqu (Ridge Mound); yinshi (Yin Market); futu (Crouching Rabbit - rectus femoris muscle); biguan (Thigh Pass)

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