Acu-moxa point chart, showing the kunlun point, from Chuanwu 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 kunlun point is located is located 5 cun (1 cun [Chinese, proportional inch] = c. 3 cm) posterior to the external malleolus, in the depression above the heelbone. It can be needled to a depth of 3 fen (1 fen [0.1 cun/Chinese proportional inch] = c. 0.3 cm), and moxibusted with three moxa cones. It is indicated for lumbar and sacral pain; aching knees and hips; painful inflammations of the external genitalia; one-sided headache; stiff neck and back; coughing and wheezing; pain and swelling in the feet and lower legs, etc.
