Microsystems: Abdomen and face

Built from the navel

腹针 Fù Zhēn

Contemporary abdominal cartography — associated especially with Bo Zhiyun's system — uses the navel, the midline and proportional distances. It is distinct from the classical Ren Mai and Kidney channels, and it is not a map of internal anatomy.

Navel and midline

The two references it is built from

Proportional distances

The map adapts to the body, not the other way round

Not internal anatomy

It does not point at the organ underneath

No substitute for examination

An abdomen gets examined medically when it should

Two different things on the same face

Facial inspection belongs to the four traditional methods. Modern facial microsystems are something else: they add specific cartographies whose boundaries and meanings are not universal.

Inspection in the four methods

General observation, inside the classical frame

Modern facial microsystem

A specific cartography from a particular school

A photograph

Does not allow organs to be diagnosed

Lighting, skin, medication

Alter appearance before any finding does

Common mistake: Reading the color of a face as an organ report. Normal human diversity covers almost the whole range being interpreted.

Someone sends a photo of their face asking for a facial-microsystem reading. What fails first of all?

1. The tongue is missing to complete the reading
2. A photograph cannot diagnose organs, and lighting alone alters what is seen
3. You would need to know what time it was taken
4. The face has no described maps

Why does the abdominal map use proportional distances instead of centimeters?

1. Because centimeters vary with room temperature
2. So the same map fits a large body and a small one
3. Because the navel moves with breathing
4. Because the classical texts did not know the metric system

Each thing with the frame it belongs to