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Acu-moxa point chart, showing the wart (zhuiyou) 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.
To locate the wart point, one makes a fist. The point is at the end of the knuckle of the middle finger on both hands, and is thus popularly known as quanjian - end of the fist. Moxibustion at this point can cure warts; all kinds of moles; lichen planus (zidianfeng) and vitiligo (baidianfeng) etc.
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Title: Wart (zhuiyou) Moxibustion Point Chart. Caption: Quanjian (end of the fist)