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Pressure point

A pressure point (Chinese: 穴位; Japanese: kyūsho 急所 "vital point, tender


Pressure point (穴位)
spot";[1] Sinhala: ල/ම ම ථාන Nila/Marma Sthana (in Angampora);
Telugu: మర నం Marma Sthanam; Malayalam: മ ം marmam; Tamil:
வ ம varmam) derives from the meridian points in Traditional Chinese
Medicine and Indian Ayurveda and Siddha medicine, and the field of martial
arts, and refers to an area on the human body that may produce significant
pain or other effects when manipulated in a specific manner.[2]

The concept of pressure points spread through the Tamil martial art called
Varma kalai, which is a martial art that concentrates on the body's pressure
points.[3][4] The concept of pressure points is also present in the old school
Japanese martial arts; in a 1942 article in the Shin Budo magazine, Takuma
Hisa asserted the existence of a tradition attributing the first development of
pressure-point attacks to Shinra Saburō Minamoto no Yoshimitsu (1045–
1127).[5]

Hancock and Higashi (1905) published a book which pointed out a number of
vital points in Japanese martial arts.[6]
Chinese name
Accounts of pressure-point fighting appeared in Chinese Wuxia fiction novels
and became known by the name of Dim Mak, or "Death Touch", in western
Chinese 穴位
popular culture in the 1960s. Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
While it is undisputed that there are sensitive points on the human body where
even comparatively weak pressure may induce significant pain or serious
Hanyu Pinyin xuéwèi
injury, the association of kyūsho with notions of death have been disproven.[7] Bopomofo ㄒㄩㄝˊ ㄨㄟˋ
Wade–Giles hsüeh-wei
References Wu
Romanization yiuih入 we去
1. Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, The Original Modern Reader's
Japanese-English Character Dictionary, Tuttle Publishing, 2004, Hakka
p.399. [1] (https://books.google.com/books?id=gtYHbyI9xPEC&pg Romanization hied5 vi55
=PA399)
Yue: Cantonese
2. "Untitled Document" (http://spa.exeter.ac.uk/drama/staff/kalari/heal
harm.html). spa.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-01. Jyutping jyut6 wai6*2
3. Institute, Suresh K Manoharan, Thirumoolar Varmalogy. Southern Min
"Thirumoolar Varmalogy Institute - Articles - History of Varmakalai"
Hokkien POJ hia̍t-uī
(http://www.varmam.org/articles/HistoryOfVarmaKalai.php).
www.varmam.org. Retrieved 2016-03-01. Japanese name
4. "Untitled Documentary" (http://spa.exeter.ac.uk/drama/staff/kalari/h Kanji 急所
ealharm.html). spa.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
Kana きゅうしょ
Transcriptions
Romanization kyūsho
5. It is also called Internal point. Takuma Hisa Sensei, Shin Budo
magazine, November 1942. republished as Hisa, Takuma
(Summer 1990). "Daito-Ryu Aiki Budo" (https://web.archive.org/we
b/20071011104105/http://www.aikidojournal.com/article.php?articl
eID=497). Aiki News. 85. Archived from the original (http://www.aik
idojournal.com/article.php?articleID=497) on 2007-10-11.
Retrieved 2007-07-18. "Yoshimitsu [...] dissected corpses brought
back from wars in order to explore human anatomy and mastered
a decisive counter-technique as well as discovering lethal atemi.
Yoshimitsu then mastered a technique for killing with a single blow.
Through such great efforts, he mastered the essence of aiki and
discovered the secret techniques of Aiki Budo. Therefore,
Yoshimitsu is the person who is credited with being the founder of
the original school of Daito-ryu."
6. Hancock, H. Irving and Higashi, Katsukuma, The complete Kano
Jiu-Jitsu (Judo), New York, G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1905.
7. Felix Mann: "...acupuncture points are no more real than the black
spots that a drunkard sees in front of his eyes." (Mann F.
Reinventing Acupuncture: A New Concept of Ancient Medicine.
Butterworth Heinemann, London, 1996,14.), quoted by Matthew
Bauer in Chinese Medicine Times (http://www.chinesemedicinetim
es.com/section.php?xSec=122) Archived (https://web.archive.org/
web/20090122104312/http://www.chinesemedicinetimes.com/secti
on.php?xSec=122) 2009-01-22 at the Wayback Machine, vol 1
issue 4, Aug. 2006, "The Final Days of Traditional Beliefs? - Part
One"

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