The exact location of acupuncture points is crucial for the proper conduct of the procedure. Traditional Chinese medicine uses several methods to find these points.

The most common and most popular method is to find points according to the arrangement of specific anatomical areas of the body. A large number of points adjacent to the joints, ribs, vertebrae, guzatowaściami, appendages, eye corners, eyebrows, folds, muscles or tendons trailers.

When there are no anatomical landmarks dating back to the metering body equal sections (so-called proportional cun). The human body was divided by the length and breadth of the Chinese into equal segments called cun. In fact, it can not be attributed to any other unit of measurement and are used only for thousands of years in acupuncture. Thanks to them, find the points and their location is measured from one another and other body parts. Proportional cun vary depending on body build, height and sex of people. And yes, 1 cun on her forehead is not the same as a cun on the chest. Cun at low and stout person will be different than those of high and slender. However, regardless of individual characteristics of human distance between the nipples will always be 8 cun from the end of the eleventh rib to the great prevaricator 9, etc.

Points can also locate an individual using the cun. This method uses the patient's finger width. 1 cun is equal to the distance between two fałdkami bent middle finger on your hand or thickness of a thumb. 1.5 cun is the total thickness of the middle and pointing fingers. Four fingers (excluding thumb) are equal to 3 cun. Your doctor may use to measure your finger, if his hands and the patient are the same size.

More experienced doctors can find points using the method palpable. While the disease in patients with organ meridians through gentle pressure to locate sensitive and painful areas. In these sections tissue is tense or flaccid. The doctor finds it by moving the light and delicate fingertips along the meridian.

Another way is to adopt the correct position of the body by the patient. And so, for example, point 31, lying on the meridian of the gallbladder, can be found when the patient is upright or standing at attention. In this position the end of his middle finger indicates precisely this point.

Although traditional methods are still the most popular and reliable, modern medicine still searching and exploring new ideas, even point detector that detects a biologically active points. However, it seems that in this case, traditional methods will remain the main way of locating acupuncture points.

Principles of acupuncture, H. Operacz, SAWW, 1993.