What Are Meridians?

What are the invisible pathways people talk about in traditional medicine?

Your turn!

Question 1 of 2

Meridians are pictured like what?

The story

Quarky learns about meridians, a traditional idea from China that pictures pathways through the body where energy is said to flow, like little rivers. It is an old way of thinking about how everything in the body connects, used in practices like acupressure. Quarky imagines his whole body as a map of gentle streams.

What you'll learn

Meridians are a traditional idea from China, a picture of pathways where energy is said to flow.
It is a way of thinking about how the body connects, not a medical fact.
Calm takeaway: meridians are a traditional idea about how the body connects, like rivers on a map.
Quarky takeaway: people around the world have wondered about the body for thousands of years, and so can you.

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