Table 5.
Frequency of Special Acupoints for CTS Treatment
| Special point | Frequency | Amount | Acupoints | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five-shu points | Shu-stream points | 194 | 15.37% | 7 | 13.46% | PC7 (141), HT7 (23), LU9 (11), TE3 (10), SI3 (5), LR3 (3), LI3 (1) |
| Jing-river points | 127 | 10.06% | 6 | 11.54% | LI5 (64), SI5 (25), LU8 (18), PC5 (16), LR4 (3), TE6 (1) | |
| He-sea points | 96 | 7.61% | 7 | 13.46% | LI11 (46), LU5 (18), PC3 (12), HT3 (9), TE10 (5), ST36 (3), SI8 (3) | |
| Ying-spring points | 86 | 6.81% | 5 | 9.62% | PC8 (45), LU10 (31), TE2 (6), HT8 (3), LI2 (1) | |
| Jing-well points | 1 | 0.08% | 1 | 1.92% | LU11 (1) | |
| Total | 504 | 39.94% | 26 | 50.00% | ||
| Yuan-source points | 301 | 23.85% | 6 | 11.54% | PC7 (141), LI4 (72), TE4 (43), HT7 (23), LU9 (11), SI4 (8), LR3 (3) | |
| Luo-connecting points | 207 | 16.40% | 6 | 11.54% | PC6 (122), TE5 (64), LU7 (11), LI6 (6), SI7 (2), HT5 (2) | |
| Eight confluent points | 202 | 16.01% | 4 | 7.69% | PC6 (122), TE5 (64), LU7 (11), SI3 (5) | |
| Xi-cleft points | 21 | 1.66% | 4 | 7.69% | LU6 (9), PC4 (7), SI6 (4), LI7 (1) | |
| Eight convergent points | 11 | 0.87% | 1 | 1.92% | LU9 (11) | |
| Crossing points | 8 | 0.63% | 1 | 1.92% | SP6 (8) | |
| Back-shu points | 5 | 0.40% | 3 | 5.77% | BL23 (3), BL13 (1), BL15 (1) | |
| Lower he-sea points | 3 | 0.24% | 1 | 1.92% | ST36 (3) | |