Principles of Acupoint Selection for cupping treatment

1. Regional locating acupoints and locating acupoints depending on the meridian.
1) Regional locating acupoints, also known as roughly locating acupoints, means that locating acupoints is in accordance to local parts or parts which near the disease to locate acupoints.
2) Locating acupoints depending on the meridian includes locating acupoints of Benjin, Biaolijin, Tongmingjin and special acupoints.

2. Locating acupoints of differential diagnosis and locating acupoints in reversal order.
1) Locating acupoints of differential diagnosis is the differential methods of locating acupoints in accordance to meridians and the indication range of very acupoint.
2) Locating acupoints in reverse refers to select acupoints in accordance to the order from top to bottom, from right to left and mixed acupoints-selecting.

3. Locating acupoints according to syndromes and pathogenetic conditions
1) Locating acupoints according to syndromes refers to locating acupoints according to symptoms of diseases.
2) Locating acupoints according to pathogenetic conditions means selecting acupionts in accordance to disease regional distribution of circulation of the meridian, corresponding to the body surface to find the symptom parts of pathogenetic condition of measles or tenderness points.