In recent years

the authors have noticed that the variation of some anatomic sites and the location of corresponding acupoints are being paid more and more attention in clinical acupuncture and moxibustion. In clinical treatment

faulty location of some acupoints

failure in location these points

or even injury of adjoining organs are all closely related to the variation of the anatomic sites. The current report gives a more detailed discussion on some anatomic sites

such as supraorbital foramen

posterior sacral foramen

sternal foramen

xiphoid foramen

long palmar muscle variation or lacking and the location of related Cuanzhu(BL 2)

Baliao(eight points in all)

Tanzhong(RN 17)

Yutang(RN 18)

Zhongting(RN 16)

Jiuwei(RN 15 )

Jianshi(PC 5) and Neiguan(PC 6).