Acupuncture Points and Pathways
Like Duolingo, but for Acupuncture Points and Pathways. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
21 levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Functional Point Categories and Action Profiles; Topography, Measurement, and Classical Combinations; and Needling Safety, Depth, and Anatomical Mechanics. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Acupuncture Points and Pathways
- Distal points recruit somatosensory pathways running up the extremities
- Needling far below the injury avoids triggering local inflammatory guarding
- Channel pathways link distal limb nodes directly to axial organ zones
- ST-36 triggers vagal activation to accelerate gastric peristalsis
- ST-36 is the premier point for replenishing post-heaven Qi and systemic vitality
- ST-36 directly governs the epigastrium and entire upper abdominal cavity
- BL-40 in the popliteal fossa governs the entire lumbar and sacral territory
- Pricking dark superficial venules at BL-40 clears deep spinal blood stasis
- Treating BL-40 decompresses tension along the full posterior superficial chain
- LU-7 commands the posterior neck and occiput via divergence into the head
- LU-7 acts as the master point opening the midline Ren Mai meridian
- LI-4 descends rebellious energy and rules the orofacial cavity
- ST-36 commands the gastrointestinal and epigastric zone
- BL-40 governs the structural lumbar and sacral corridor
- LU-7 dictates movement through the nape, occiput, and throat
- Jing-Well points sit at extremities where Qi emerges superficially
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Acupuncture Points and Pathways the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When someone has an acute, painful back spasm, why might you needle far below the injury instead of directly in the sore spot?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
Where Acupuncture Points and Pathways takes you
Deepen your clinical precision by mastering the major acupuncture point categories, anatomical landmarks, and synergistic point prescriptions. Move beyond simple channel memorization to understand why and how specific acupoints produce systemic physiological changes.
- 1
Functional Point Categories and Action Profiles
- The Four Command Points and Key Distal Drivers
- The Five Shu Transporting Points
- Source, Connecting, and Cleft Channels
- 2
Topography, Measurement, and Classical Combinations
- Back-Shu and Front-Mu Reflex Points
- Landmark Precision and Proportional Cun
- Synergistic Point Pairing Strategies
- 3
Needling Safety, Depth, and Anatomical Mechanics
- Safe Depths, Angulation, and High-Risk Zones
3 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Acupuncture Points and Pathways is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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