Hṛdaya-adjacent chest focus
Heart-region warmth and circulation proxy
The chest focus is placed adjacent to the traditional hṛdaya region to mark a cautious heart-area attention point. It is a target-organ projection of a therapy-region classification, not an instruction to apply pressure over a vital marma or a medical cardiac map.
Point 3 of 8 in Abhyaṅga — Oil Massage and Marma-Adjacent Foci
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Suśruta Saṃhitā (primary_canonical)
Śārīrasthāna 6 enumerates hṛdaya among vital marma regions and explains the seriousness of injury; the oil focus is adjacent and not a massage prescription from that chapter.
Vasant Lad, Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing (secondary)
Modern marma and abhyaṅga teaching language supports using a broad chest proxy for attention; it does not establish a canonical normalized point.