Porcupine cough?

I am only a student of TCM and browsing the net for acupuncture formulas I came upon this one:
Cough:
CV 6 12 16 17 20 21 22 23
P 2 4
GB 8 10 11 20 21 44
GV 9 10 11 12 14 23
KI 1 3 19 22 24 27
LI 4 11 13 15 18
LU 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
LV 14
SI 1 2 15
SP 5 14 18 20
ST 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 25 36 38
40 41
TW 5 10
BL 11 12 13 14 15 17 20 21 37 38 42 43 44
45

This is a formula given for cough!? If I do this obviously the patient would literally look like a porcupine. Unfortunately no explanation to this 'formula' is given so I'm not sure what they mean by all these points but I highly doubt that this would be one formula for cough. I wonder if they meant that you pick one of these points on each of these meridian depending on the type of cough?

Any thoughts?

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