Épigastre — solar pivot
Upper-abdominal magnetic focus
The epigastrium is rendered as a solar pivot, a central contact and attention locus in Mesmerian treatment reports and later accounts. 'Solar' is a rendering shorthand for the upper-abdominal pivot, not a claim that Mesmer used modern solar-plexus anatomy.
Point 2 of 7 in Animal Magnetism — Poles, Pivot and Crises
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Franz Anton Mesmer, Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal (primary_canonical)
Mesmer's propositions describe animal magnetism as a universal physical fluid, bodily poles, therapeutic passes, and crises; this is the canonical source for the vocabulary represented here.
Adam Crabtree, From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing (scholarly_modern)
Modern scholarly history of Mesmerism, including crisis and somnambulism and the transition from fluidic explanations to psychological accounts.