Toolbox and Additional Features

The "Toolbox" page brings together a set of practical tools designed to facilitate your clinical use and analysis of BaZi charts.

Access to Main Features

10,000-Year Calendar

Allows you to:

• Manually calculate a BaZi chart
• Verify sensitive dates (close to year, month, or day changes)
• Identify solar terms (節氣 jié qì), with the exact time of transition between two periods

👉 This precision is essential for:

• Correctly determining the month pillar and day pillar
• Securing calculations for births near a solar term change
• Refining energetic analysis according to the Chinese solar calendar

👉 Particularly useful for securing calculations in borderline cases.

Chrono-acupuncture

Dedicated tool for calculating open points according to different methods:

• Ling Gui Ba Fa (靈龜八法 líng guī bā fǎ)
• Fei Teng Ba Fa (飛騰八法 fēi téng bā fǎ)

Methods currently being integrated:

• Na Zi Fa (納子法 nà zǐ fǎ)
• Na Jia Fa (納甲法 nà jiǎ fǎ)

Essential Parameters

To obtain reliable calculations, it is essential to provide with precision:

• the date
• the time
• the location of the session

👉 This information allows you to determine the exact spatio-temporal coordinates, essential for:

• correctly calculating the cycles of heavenly stems (天干 tiān gān) and earthly branches (地支 dì zhī)
• adjusting data to actual solar time
• precisely determining the open points at the time of the session

Reference Tables

Clinical References

• Calculation tables for chrono-acupuncture
• Acupuncture prohibitions (from the Ling Shu 靈樞, chapters 41 and 61)
• 12 Phases of Qi (十二長生 shí èr cháng shēng) → notably allow you to calculate Qi dynamics according to the day pillar in a BaZi chart

Interactions of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches

Essential tools for analyzing a BaZi chart:

Heavenly Stems (天干 tiān gān)

• Opposition (天干相沖)
• Combination / transformation (天干合化)

Earthly Branches (地支 dì zhī)

• Three Harmonies (三合)
• Seasonal Gatherings (方會)
• Six Combinations (六合)
• Six Oppositions (六沖)
• Six Injuries / Punishments (六害)
• Five Destructions (五破)
• Punishments (刑)

👉 A relational matrix of branches allows quick visualization of interactions.

Calendrical References and Date Selection (通書 tōng shū)

This section brings together tools from the traditional Chinese calendar (通書 tōng shū), used to analyze the energetic quality of a day and refine therapeutic or decision-making choices.

12 Officers of the Day (十二建除值神 shí èr jiàn chú zhí shén)

A fundamental system of the Chinese calendar, it assigns to each day a specific energetic function.

👉 Usage:

• evaluate the overall quality of the day
• determine favorable or unfavorable activities
• refine the choice of a session or intervention date

✔️ Also commonly named 建除十二神 (jiàn chú shí èr shén), the abbreviated form used in calendars.

Upcoming Developments

New tables and tools will enrich this section according to AcuBazi's evolution.

👉 This toolbox is intended to become a reference center for BaZi practice and the integration of calendar and temporal influences in traditional Chinese medicine.