C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Yanglingquan

Acu-moxa point chart, showing the yanglingquan (Yang Mound Spring) 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: The yanglingquan point is located below the knee, in the depression at the outer edge of the head of the fibula. It can be needled to a depth of 6 fen (1 fen [0.1 cun/Chinese proportional inch] = c. 0.3 cm), and moxibusted with seven moxa cones. It is indicated for pain and swelling in the feet and knees; wind-cold-damp blockage disease (bi); one-sided paralysis; heavy, aching feeling in the back, making it difficult to sit or stand; facial oedema (fuzhong); distention and feeling of fullness (zhangman) in the chest, etc.

Caption: Yanglingquan (Yang Mound Spring)