Channel chart: channel starting points, Chinese woodcut

Woodblock illustration from an edition of 1909 (1st year of the Xuantong reign period of the Qing dynasty). It shows the figure of a middle-aged man, with the four channels of hand yangming, foot shaoyang, foot taiyin and foot jueyin drawn on his body. The starting and finishing points of each channel are described in four blocks of text arranged to either side of the figure, joined by lines to the part of the body where the channel originates. It should be noted that the start and finish points of the gall bladder channel of foot shaoyang are inverted, with respect to other texts.

The large intestine channel of hand yangming starts at the shangyang (Shang Yang) point and finishes at the yingxiang (Welcome Fragrance) point. The spleen channel of foot shaoyang (N.B. Spleen, pi, is a scribal error for gall bladder, dan) starts at the qiaoyin point and finishes at the tongziliao (Pupil Crevice) point. The liver channel of foot jueyin starts at the dadun (Big Mound) point and finishes at the qimen (Portal of Times) point. The spleen channel of foot taiyin starts at the yinbai (Concealed White) point and finishes at the dabao (Great Wrapping) point.