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point sets
Ghost Points
acupuncture

definition

to treat madness, insanity, psychosis, possession, etc., needle the following thirteen Ghost Points in sequence:
1. GV-26
2. Lu-11
3. Sp-1
4. PC-7
5. UB-62 (hot needle acupuncture)
6. GV-16
7. St-6 (warming the needle technique)
8. CV-24
9. PC-8
10. GV-23
11. CV-1 for males; use a point at the opening of the vagina for females
12. LI-11 (hot needle acupuncture)
13. hai quan (prick to bleed)
(Shanghai, p. 630; Maciocia, p. 210; So, 1987, p. 131)


footnotes

Reprinted from The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, Maciocia, Giovanni, p. 210, 1989, by permission of the publisher Churchill Livingstone, a division of Elsevier Limited.