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On the equine transpositional systems, numbering systems for horses.

--> Re; transpositional systems. This is a very interesting question and one I have thought about for a long time. It seems there are two kinds of transposition. The anatomic and the energetic. First,  there is not an agreement on point naming. There are about 3-4 different systems just for horses. And over the years there have been at least 3 different   naming systems for humans too. Before Mao the points only had names which were according to their qualities not numbers. He realized the importance of acupuncture and brought all the practitioners together and they developed a numbering system probably in the 40”s.   So a numbering system would be Ki1, Ki2, k3 etc. before that they only had names such as Baihui. (meaning roughly ;100 meeting points) This system then came to west in the early 70”s.   This is for humans.   Anatomic locations were given for the point locations but only worked as a guide to help find the points. The practitioner had to have