Meridians and energy points
Whether during a session of Chinese massage Tuina or acupuncture, your practitioner works on specific energy points, called acupuncture points, which are on the journey of the meridians. It applies manual techniques chosen according to the desired effect.
Through this page, you can select a given meridian in order to consult its description, its illustrated journey as well as the different acupuncture or energy points that are part. There are the 12 main meridians, 2 particular meridians as well as a separate section dedicated to acupuncture points outside meridians.
You can click on each of the acupuncture points listed (more than 200 points identified) in order to have access to the illustrated location of the point as well as its therapeutic functions and clinical indications in Chinese massage in particular.
The measurement unit used to identify points in traditional Chinese medicine is the cun (pronounced 'tsun'). For information, 1 cun corresponds to the width (of the last phalanx) of the thumb of the patient's hand on which one wishes to locate a point.
If you already have a specific point in mind, it will be practical to use the search bar below to access it directly
