Open points by the hour 子午流注
Which points the classical Zi Wu Liu Zhu tables open at a given double-hour, by method, each from one named source. These are the tables as the texts give them, not a recommendation: they say what the method opens, not what a patient needs.
The double-hours follow the time zone's clock (daylight saving removed). "Use my location" reads them on true solar time at your longitude instead — only the longitude is used, and it never leaves your browser at finer than about a kilometre.
Stem-branch 干支
2026-09-28 02:04 local standard time · UTC
- Year
- 丙午
- bǐng wǔ
- Month
- 丁酉
- dīng yǒu
- Day
- 乙巳
- yǐ sì
- Hour
- 丁丑
- dīng chǒu
Solar term 秋分 (Autumn Equinox); next 寒露. The year changes at 立春, the month at each 節, the day at 23:00 (the 子 hour opens the day); hours are double-hours of local standard time.
Horary tide 十二經納地支
丑 hour (01:00–03:00): the Liver channel is in its tide.
Xu Feng 徐鳳, Zhenjiu Daquan 針灸大全 (1439), vol. 5, 「十二經納地支歌」: 肺寅大卯胃辰宮，脾巳心午小未中，申胱酉腎心包戌，亥三子膽丑肝通。
Na Jia Fa 納甲法 per Xu Feng, Zhenjiu Daquan (1439)
The 丁丑 hour is closed in this method: Xu Feng's verse opens no point at it. No other tradition's table is used to fill it.
Xu Feng 徐鳳, Zhenjiu Daquan 針灸大全 (1439), vol. 5, 「子午流注逐日按時定穴訣」. Text: 人民衛生出版社 1987 text collated with the Ming Wanli 鄭氏宗文堂 print, via the 中醫笈成 (jicheng.tw) transcription.
Na Zi Fa 納子法 per Yang Jizhou, Zhenjiu Dacheng (1601)
The channel in its tide is reduced at its own hour; the channel whose tide has just passed is reinforced.
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「瀉用丑時，行間，為滎火」
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「補用丑時，俠谿，為滎水」
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「丘墟為原，皆取之」
Yang Jizhou 楊繼洲, Zhenjiu Dacheng 針灸大成 (1601), vol. 5, 「十二經病井滎俞經合補虛瀉實」. Text: Qing Kangxi 李月桂德鄰軒 print, via the 中醫笈成 (jicheng.tw) transcription.
3. GB40
2. GB43
1. LV2
Na Jia Fa through the 乙巳 day
The stem-branch day runs from 23:00 to 23:00. Closed hours are left empty.
| Hour | Clock | Tide | Na Jia Fa |
|---|---|---|---|
| 丙子 | 23:00–01:00 | GB | SI2 前谷 |
| 丁丑 | 01:00–03:00 | LV | — |
| 戊寅 | 03:00–05:00 | LU | ST43 陷谷 GB40 丘墟 |
| 己卯 | 05:00–07:00 | LI | — |
| 庚辰 | 07:00–09:00 | ST | LI5 陽谿 |
| 辛巳 | 09:00–11:00 | SP | — |
| 壬午 | 11:00–13:00 | HT | BL40 委中 |
| 癸未 | 13:00–15:00 | SI | — |
| 甲申 | 15:00–17:00 | BL | TE2 液門 |
| 乙酉 | 17:00–19:00 | KI | LV1 大敦 |
| 丙戌 | 19:00–21:00 | PC | — |
| 丁亥 | 21:00–23:00 | TE | HT8 少府 |
Classical calendar method · 五運六氣
Qi year 丙午 (bǐng wǔ) · 大寒 (Major Cold) to 大寒
Step 5 of 6: 少陽相火 (Shaoyang ministerial fire)
23 Sep – 22 Nov — 秋分 (Autumn Equinox) to 小雪 (Minor Snow).
The qi year is divided into six steps (六氣) of about 61 days each. Every step carries a fixed host qi (主氣) — the weather that season always has — under a guest qi (客氣) that moves round with the year. This one pairs guest 少陽相火 (Shaoyang ministerial fire) over host 陽明燥金 (Yangming dry-metal).
- Year movement (中運) — the year's governing phase
- 太羽 · water, in excess (太過)
- Celestial controller (司天) — the qi over the whole year
- 少陰君火 Shaoyin sovereign fire
- Earthly spring (在泉) — its partner, over the second half
- 陽明燥金 Yangming dry-metal
The Suwen (ch. 66) gives this qi's nature as fire (火). Pattern pages that name fire:
The Suwen (ch. 66) gives this qi's nature as dryness (燥). Pattern pages that name dryness:
A classical calendar reference, not a forecast. It does not say anyone will fall ill. Sources: Suwen ch. 66, 68 and 71; Zhang Jiebin, Leijing Tuyi (1624).
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Classical calendar method: reference tables from named classical sources, shown as those texts give them. They do not predict illness and are not a treatment recommendation; point selection, technique and contraindications remain the practitioner's. Every point shown carries its monograph's cautions.