EQUINE ACUPUNCTURE POINTS

January 2019

Note: All points are “Human Transpositional Points” unless otherwise designated with the initials TCVM for “Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine” Points.

All points are required points for the practical exam unless otherwise indicated as: (Non-Required).

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Mosby, 2011. 3. IVAS. IVAS Equine Points Interactive CD. 2002. 4. Kainer, Robert A & McCracken, Thomas O. Horse Anatomy – A Coloring Atlas, 2nd ed. Loveland, CO: Alpine Publications,

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Book Printing, 2002. 12. Goldfinger, Eliot, Animal Anatomy for Artists – The Elements of Form. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 13. Veterinary Anatomy Museum – Murdoch University, College of Veterinary Medicine: Perth, Australia, 2009. 14. Sisson, S., Grossman, J. D., The Anatomy of the Domestic Animals, 4th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1953.

EQ CUN CHART (see next page) • Width of 16th rib at the costochondral junction = 1 cun • Umbilicus to the pubis = 5 cun • Hip (top of greater trochanter) to center of stifle = 19 cun • Laterally, center of stifle to center of hock = 16 cun • Medially, center of stifle to center of hock = 13 cun • Scapula, at its widest part, from cranial to caudal edge = 3 cun • Shoulder (greater tubercle) to elbow = 9 cun • Elbow crease to center of carpus = 12 cun • Head midline from back of skull to just cranial to eyes = 12 cun • From the most medial aspect of the medial styloid process dorsally to a point level with the middle of the chestnut (Eq) = 2 cun.

• the most medial aspect of the styloid process is at the carpal crease • PC 6 is 2 cun above this crease • PC 6 is place just dorsal (in front) to the midpoint of the chestnut • thus, it is 2 cun from the most medial aspect of the styloid process to PC 6.