Universidade Federal do Ceará
Grupo de Atenção Integral e Pesquisa em Acupuntura e Medicina Tradicional Chinesa – GAIPA UFC

Seleção dos Pontos de Acupuntura

Classics

• Huang Di Neijing (Yellow Thearch’s Inner Classic),
• Huang Di Neijing Suwen (Basic Questions),
• Huang Di Neijing Lingshu (Spiritual Pivot),
• Nanjing (Classic of Difficult Issues),
• Shanghan Lun (On Harm Caused by Cold),
• Zhen Jiu Jia Yi Jing (Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion),

Seleção dos Pontos de Acupuntura

• Jang DY et al. Diversity of Acupuncture Point Selections According to the Acupuncture Styles and Their Relations to Theoretical Elements in Traditional Asian Medicine: A Data-Mining-Based Literature Study. J Clin Med. 2021 May 11;10(10):2059. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34064891/>.

Five elements

• Chung SK et al. The five elements of the cell. Integr Med Res. 2017 Dec;6(4):452-456. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29296573/>.
• Moss CA. Five element acupuncture: treating body, mind, and spirit. Altern Ther Health Med. 1999 Sep;5(5):52-61. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10484831/>.

Acupuncture Points

• Hwang YC. Anatomy and classification of acupoints. Probl Vet Med. 1992 Mar;4(1):12-5. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1581648/>.
• Sham V, Mclennan Ak. Was acupuncture developed by Han Dynasty Chinese anatomists? Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2016 May;299(5):643-59. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26861920/>.

Five-Shu Points

• Lee S et al. Characteristics of five-phase acupoints from data mining of randomized controlled clinical trials followed by multidimensional scaling. Integr Med Res. 2022 Jun;11(2):100829. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35024336/>.
• Yan CC et al. Discussion on the theory of he-sea point in Neijing (Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor) and Nanjing (Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Eighty-one Difficult Issues. Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2021 Aug 12;41(8):928-32. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34369707/>.
• Choi W et al. Differential autonomic response to acupuncture at wood and metal of five-shu acupoints. J Altern Complement Med. 2012 Oct;18(10):959-64. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22916690/>.

Mu and Shu Points

• Beisser F et al. Forgotten features of head zones and their relation to diagnostically relevant acupuncture points. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2011;2011:240653. <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19141490/>.