Forgotten Features of Head Zones and Their Relation to Diagnostically Relevant Acupuncture Points

Table 1

Head's statements on maximum points.

(a) “Every such area of cutaneous tenderness has one or more maximum points, the position of which is exceedingly important, for it is to the situation of these maxima that the patient refers his pain”. Head [8, page 6]
(b) “There is great cutaneous tenderness […] Yet firm deep pressure relieves, rather than aggravates, his pain”. Head [8, page 71]
(c) “Thus, mustard leaves applied to the maximum spots of the affected areas of the chest or back, […] will remove the nausea and vomiting in this mild and purely reflex type of gastric disturbance”. Head [8, page 261]