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Acupuncture for people who are scared of commitment and needles.
means A healing technique that applies finger or hand pressure to specific points on the body, said to relieve pain and tension without ever breaking the skin.
from A straightforward 20th-century blend of 'acupuncture' (itself from Latin acus, 'needle,' plus 'puncture') and 'pressure' — coined once practitioners started asking why you'd need the needle at all if the point and the pressure were doing the work.
- origin
- predates acupuncture by centuries in Chinese medicine
- mechanism
- pressure on points, no skin broken ever
- evidence
- decent for nausea, shaky for everything else
- diy factor
- you can do it to yourself, unlike acupuncture