Marma — The Vital PointsayurvedaNamed points are worked with steady, unhurried touch — pressure held or small circles, using the hand rather than any instrument. The classical map is anatomical and specific: the Suśruta Saṃhitā sets out one hundred and seven such points in its chapter on the body (Śārīra Sthāna 6), describing where each lies and why it matters. That text's own concern is surgical — points to protect, not points to press — and later practice turned the same map toward touch. That is worth knowing when you meet a modern tapping routine: the map is genuinely old, the therapeutic use of it is a later reading of an older anatomy.What it's for

Chronic Pain — Long-standing pain is read as a body whose flow has settled into a pattern around the injury. Working the points is understood as addressing the pattern rather than the sore place itself.

Tension Headache — Head and neck tension is read here as vitality obstructed at particular junctions rather than as a diffuse ache — which is why the tradition's answer is specific places rather than general relaxation.