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Huangdi Neijing · The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon
Suwen 59 · Receptacles of Qi
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The places where Foot Taiyang vessel qi emerges number seventy-eight. One at each brow head; from entry into the hair to the nape, three and a half cun, with five beside, separated by three cun. Its floating qi within skin occupies five rows of five: twenty-five. One on either side of the great nape sinew; one on either side of Fengfu.
Beside the back down to the tail of the buttocks, through twenty-one sections and fifteen intervals, one each. Five transport sites for the five zang organs on each side; six for the six fu organs on each side. From Weizhong down to beside the little toe, six transport sites on each side.
Reading note: The stated seventy-eight and the supplied rows, intervals and twenty-one-section wording remain; no modern point chart is used to force their arithmetic.
The places where Foot Shaoyang vessel qi emerges number sixty-two. Two above each forehead corner; five within the hairline directly above each eye; one above and one below the corner before each ear; one below each pointed hairline; one at each Kezhuren; one in the hollow behind each ear; one at each Xiaguan; one behind the jaw joint below each ear; one at each Quepen.
Three cun below the axilla, along the flanks to their lateral region, one in each of eight intervals on each side. One beside each hip pivot. From below the knee to the toe next to the little toe, six transport sites on each side.
The places where Foot Yangming vessel qi emerges number sixty-eight. Three on each side at the forehead and skull hairline; one in each hollow of the facial nasal bone; one in each Daying bone hollow; one at each Renying; one in each bone hollow outside Quepen; one between the bones of each breast region.
Outside both sides of Jiuwei, three cun below the breasts and beside the Stomach cavity, five each. Three on each side of the navel, a breadth of three cun apart; two cun below the navel, three on each side. One at each beating vessel of the Qi Street; one above each Futu thigh region. From Sanli to the middle toe, eight transport sites each. These are the hollow sites in their respective divisions.
The places where Hand Taiyang vessel qi emerges number thirty-six. One at each inner eye corner and one outside each eye; one beneath each nasal bone; one above each ear rim and one within each ear; one at each Jugu hollow; one at the bone hollow above each bent axilla; one in each hollow above the pillar bone.
One four cun above each Tianchuang; one at each shoulder division and one three cun below it. From below the elbow to the base of the little finger, six transport sites each.
The places where Hand Yangming vessel qi emerges number twenty-two. Two on each side at the outer borders of the nostril openings and above the neck; one in each Daying bone hollow; one at each meeting of the pillar bone; one at each meeting of the shoulder prominence. From below the elbow to the base of the finger next to the thumb, six transport sites each.
Reading note: The supplied 襖骨 follows the contextual 髃 shoulder-bone reading, also used in the later heat-site list; no modern point number is supplied.
The places where Hand Shaoyang vessel qi emerges number thirty-two. One below each nasal bone; one behind each brow; one above each forehead corner; one below and behind each Wangu; one in the nape before Foot Taiyang on each side; one beside each Futu neck site; one at each Jianzhen; one in the flesh division three cun below each Jianzhen. From below the elbow to the base of the finger next to the little finger, six transport sites each.
The places where Du vessel qi emerges number twenty-eight: two in the nape’s center; eight along the center behind the hairline; three in the face’s center; fifteen from below the great vertebra to the buttock tail and beside it. Down to below the sacrum there are twenty-one sections: this is the spinal measure.
Reading note: The supplied 焔 follows the contextual sacral reading used earlier.
The places where Ren vessel qi emerges number twenty-eight. Two in the throat’s center; one each in the breast’s bony hollows. Below Jiuwei, three cun; the Stomach cavity, five cun; from below the Stomach cavity to the transverse bone, six and a half cun, one at each measure. This is the method of the abdominal vessel.
One branches at the lower private parts; one below each eye; one at the lower lip; one at Yinjiao, the gum junction.
Reading note: The compressed three/five/six-and-a-half-cun wording and stated twenty-eight sites remain without filling in an external modern list or relocating the source’s labels.
The places where Chong vessel qi emerges number twenty-two. Half a cun outside Jiuwei on each side, with one site each cun down to the navel. Below the navel, five fen to each side, one each cun down to the transverse bone. This is the method of the abdominal vessel.
Foot Shaoyin beneath the tongue; the urgent Jueyin vessels within the pubic hair, one each; Hand Shaoyin, one each; yin and yang qiao, one each. Together with the places where vessel qi emerges at the fish-border regions of hands and feet, the total is three hundred sixty-five sites.
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