Belly — bodily centre
digestion, vitality, and treatment attention
The belly is used as a broad treatment and vitality region because healing accounts attend to embodied illness, digestion, and bodily balance in locally specific ways. Its location is an editorial comparative anchor and not a universal Samoan/Tongan reservoir.
Point 3 of 5 in Samoan/Tongan Healing Body
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Claire D. F. Parsons, ed., Healing Practices in the South Pacific (scholarly_modern)
The collection includes separate studies of Samoan medicine and Tongan healing practices; it is used here as a comparative source while preserving island-level variation.
Claire D. F. Parsons, Illness and Cure in Tonga: Traditional and Modern Medical Practice (scholarly_modern)
Ethnographic account of Tongan illness concepts, curers, cures, and case studies; the source supports a Tongan healing context but not a universal Samoan/Tongan body map.