Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour, China, 17--.

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1700-1799
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567622i
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Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour, China, 17--. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Shows one of the twelve systems of channels which run from the foot or hand through the major internal organs up to the throat, and which carry qi around the body. Each channel has a specifed number of acupuncture points symmetrically arranged on the left and right sides

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1700-1799

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1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 30.2 x 23.6 cm

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Inscription in Chinese characters includes the labelling of each acupuncture point: "Foot great yinyang "spleen" [pi] channel. Left and right: 42 [acupuncture] points", i.e. the channel which runs from the foot through an organ called the pi. "Pi" was the Chinese word adopted by Benjamin Hobson (1816-1873) to translate "spleen", though as usual with English-Chinese translations of medical terms, they were not the same, though having certain qualities in common

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Wellcome Collection 567622i

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