C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Neiting

Acu-moxa point chart, showing the neiting (Inner Courtyard) 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 text states: Neiting is located at the end of the crevice between the second and third toes. 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 retrograde cold (jueni) in the limbs; liking for peace and quiet and aversion to noise; profuse breakout of pox; painful, inflamed throats; unremitting toothache; yawning and somnolence; lack of appetite for food and drink; tinnitus (lit. cricket chirp [chanming] in the ear); ague (nüeji), etc.

Caption: Neiting (Inner Courtyard)