Acu-moxa chart: yinwei mai (Yin Tie Vessel), Chinese

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The names of the acupoints of yinwei mai (Yin Tie Vessel) are inscribed on the figure of a child. Yinwei mai is one of the Eight Extraordinary Channels (qi jing ba mai). It originates at the zhubin (Guest House) point on the foot shaoyin channel, runs upwards along the inner side of the lower limbs to the diaphragm and Adam's Apple, where it comes into confluence with renmai (the Director Vessel, sometimes translated as Conception Vessel) and terminates at the lianquan (Edge Spring) point at the root of the tongue. Acupoints on this channel include: zhubin (Guest House), fushe (Official Lodge), daheng (Great Horizontal), fu'ai (Abdomen Sorrow), qimen (Portal of Times), tiantu (Celestial Prominence) and lianquan (Edge Spring)

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Image title: Yinwei mai (Yin Tie Vessel). Other lettering (acu-moxa locations): Zhubin (Guest House); fushe (Official Lodge); daheng (Great Horizontal); fu'ai (Abdomen Sorrow); qimen (Portal of Times); tiantu (Celestial Prominence); lianquan (Edge Spring); yangbai (Yang White)

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