Fig. 3From: Acupuncture treatment for carotid atherosclerotic plaques: study protocol for a pilot randomized, single blinded, controlled clinical trialAcupoint diagram of the protocol. The eight acupoints used in the protocol visually are shown. NEIGUAN (PC6), RENYING (ST9) (both sides), BAIHUI (DU20), YINTANG (EX-HN3), and YANGLINGQUAN (GB34) (both sides) are applied in total. The specific location of these acupoints is listed in Table 1Back to article page