Acupuncture prohibitions for pregnancy, Chinese/Japanese

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Chart showing locations on the Liver channel of leg jueyin where acupuncture is prohibited during the first 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 Liver channel of leg jueyin Labels (names of prohibited points ): Dadun (Big Mound); xingjian (Moving Between); taichong (Great Rushing); zhongfeng (Middle Seal); zhongxi (Middle Cleft); san yin (Three Yin); sanyinjiao (Three Yin Intersection); ququan (Spring at the Crook); xiguan (Knee Pass); wu li (Five Miles); yinbao (Yin Wrapping); yinlian (Yin Edge); ligou (Woodworm Ditch)

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