The Eight Meeting Points, Chinese, Ming period

Woodcut showing the Eight Meeting Points (ba hui xue); illustration of 'Problem 45' from Tu 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, mai Vessels, bone and marrow -- are focused. Fu converges at the taicang (Great Granary) point (here this indicates the zhongwan (Middle Cavity) point); zang converges at the jixie point (location corresponding to the cartilage of the 11th and 12th ribs, here indicating zhangmen, Completion Portal); the tendons converge at the yanglingquan (Yang Mound Spring) point; marrow converges at the juegu (Severed Bone) point; blood converges at the geshu (Diaphragm Conveyor) point; bone converges at the dazhu (Great Shuttle) point; the mai Vessels converge at the taiyuan (Great Abyss) point; and Qi converges in the sanjiao (Triple Burner) (i.e danzhong, Chest Centre).

Image title: Illustration of problem 45, the Eight Meeting Points The captions provide the information about the Eight Meeting Points included under 'Image Description'.