Chinese Cosmology > Camphorwood Gate

Camphorwood Gate (zhang men), 44x58, Liver 13, hand-dyed, commercial, and batik fabric, embellished with paint. Located near the free ribs where the tip of the elbow touches, this point rectifies Qi, quickens Blood, and transforms stasis. The word 'zhang' has been used to mean camphor laurel tree, and this point is the intersection point of the two Wood channels, as well as the alarm/mu point of the Spleen (Earth). It is the point where Wood receives Earth, where 'it becomes a thousand pieces of valuable lumber' (The Book of History). 'Zhang' can also mean screen or gate, through which the physician can treat diseases of the internal organs.