The Point Map 穴位
Acupuncture needs a licensed hand; your own two thumbs need only a map. This hall teaches the famous points — where they are in plain language, how to press them, what the evidence honestly shows (one of them carries a Cochrane review), and when a complaint deserves a clinician instead of a fingertip.
指压
The needle's gentle cousin — same map, softer instrument. Your thumb is slower than a needle, but it goes home with you, and it works for free.
止呕
One point on the wrist has been studied more than most herbs in my cabinet. When the stomach argues, this is where my thumb goes first — and Cochrane agrees.
头痛
For the ordinary headache — the desk kind, the squint kind — four points and ten quiet minutes often beat rummaging for pills. For the extraordinary kind, see the last section first.
安眠
Three points, pressed slowly in the dark, ask nothing and cost nothing. On the nights the mind won't file itself away, they are a kind ritual — and ritual is half of sleep.
推拿
Push and grasp — that's the name, and that's the method. Massage that thinks it's medicine, working the same map as the needles, with sleeves rolled up.
