Acupuncture prohibitions for pregnancy, Chinese/Japanese

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Chart showing locations on the Gall Bladder channel of leg shaoyang where acupuncture is prohibited during the second month of pregnancy, from Ishinpo [Chinese: Yi xin fang] (Remedies at the Heart of Medicine), by the Japanese author Yasuyori Tanba.

Completed in 984 (2nd year of the Eikan era), this is primarily a classified edition of Chinese medical prescriptions of the Jin (265-420) and Tang (618-907) periods, but it also embraces materia medica, acupuncture and moxibustion, yangsheng ('nourishing life'), mineral elixirs, daoyin (therapeutic movement), dietetic therapy, etc. Juan (volume) 22, Renfu maitu yuejingfa (Channel charts of the pregnant woman with monthly prohibitions), Section 1, contains ten acupuncture prohibition charts, one for each month of gestation.

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Heading: Illustration of the Gall Bladder channel of leg shaoyang. Labels (names of prohibited points): Yin orifice (= huiyin); xiaxi (Clamped Stream); xiaxi (Clamped Stream); diwu cang (Fifth Storehouse); linqi (Close to Tears); qiuxu (Mound of Ruins); xuanzhong (Suspended Bell); (Yang Assistance); guangming (Bright Light); waiqiu (Outer Hill); yangguan (Yang Pass); yangling (Yang Mound); zhongdu (Middle Ditch); huantiao (Jumping in a Circle)

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