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Overview

AcuiQ is a privacy-first Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) protocol matcher. Users enter symptoms anonymously and receive acupuncture treatment protocols matched from published case studies – no login, no account and no cookies. The project does not claim to store nothing: its own agent-discovery document states that searches are tallied by symptom with no visitor attached (acuiq.com/llms.txt), which is a per-symptom counter rather than a per-person record.

The platform resolves a query to symptom concepts, expands it over synonyms and narrower terms, and matches by text similarity. The corpus is published as an exact census rather than a round number: as of 30 August 2026 the project's About & Method page records 5,242 entries linking symptoms to points, drawn from 773 catalogued points across 14,237 indexed symptom terms. Each entry is labelled with the kind of evidence behind it, and the split matters more than the total: 3,842 are study-reported and carry a DOI or article link, 1,066 come from clinical texts, compiled prescription sets or individual case reports, 332 are taken from acupuncture websites rather than the literature, and 2 lost their source in extraction. The page says the last two classes rank below the first and are being pruned. Acupoint entries carry muscular, dermal and skeletal views with cun measurement overlays. The public site exposes four browse surfaces – Symptoms, Meridians, Treatments and an Atlas – plus a Research index.

It carries a standing medical disclaimer: the site states it provides educational information about acupoints and self-treatment techniques, is not medical advice, and that users should consult qualified healthcare professionals before starting any treatment.

Products

Hot Spots™ Press Needles – $19.99

Tiny (~1.5mm) acupuncture needles on 3M backing tape, worn discreetly for extended periods. Safe for home use and designed for the press-needle protocols recommended by AcuiQ. Sold via Stripe checkout.

Self-Treatment Guide – $12.99 (digital download)

Comprehensive guide to self-acupuncture using press needles. Covers technique, safety, the cun measurement system, and protocol application for common conditions. Over 108 acupoint illustrations, 6.8MB PDF.

Both are sold through Stripe and have their own pages – /buy/press-needles and /buy/treatment-guide – and are also reachable from symptom and protocol pages. The project states it does not recommend a product for a symptom.

Research Output

Alongside the matcher, AcuiQ publishes findings from its own extraction pipeline about the state of the acupuncture literature, at acuiq.com/research. Two essays are published. "TF4 Is Not a Point" documents that acupuncture point codes are published without a namespace, so a code written under one standard and read under another resolves to a different location: across 48,579 point references extracted from the literature, 37 resolved silently to the wrong point (acuiq.com/research/codes-are-not-identifiers). "Nothing in This Literature Ever Fails" audits the evidence base the matcher is built on and reports against its own database: 541 protocols derived from animal research, 1,034 more that cannot be verified at all, and 31 point pages that forbade the condition they treated (acuiq.com/research/nothing-ever-fails). An index and an RSS feed are published at acuiq.com/research.

This dataset-first posture – treating the corpus itself as the object of study rather than only as a lookup table – is what places the project in the decentralised science category rather than the consumer-health one.

Relationship to Radix

AcuiQ is listed in this directory as a project of a Radix-ecosystem team, not as a deployed Radix application. The finding is unchanged on a re-check of 30 August 2026: it runs entirely on conventional web infrastructure, there is no Radix component, no token and no wallet integration, and the words Radix, blockchain, wallet and crypto do not appear on either the home page or the About page. Its only machine-facing payment path is a Stripe checkout link returned by an agent tool, which the project is explicit is opened by a human.

The structural affinity is with the category rather than the current build. An anonymous, non-custodial health-knowledge service maps onto Radix's asset-oriented model in the same way other DeSci datasets do – attestation of a curated corpus, community curation of contributions, and access tiers expressed as badges rather than accounts. None of that is built; it is noted here to explain the listing, not to describe shipped functionality.

Agent surface

Since the July 2026 entry above, AcuiQ has published a machine-facing layer alongside the human site, and it is the part of the project most likely to interest a Radix developer. The pattern is the one this wiki documents under AI agents: a discovery document, a spec-correct Model Context Protocol server, and a parallel machine-readable copy of every page. All of the endpoints below were probed on 30 August 2026 and returned 200.

  • MCP server – JSON-RPC 2.0 over streamable HTTP at acuiq.com/api/mcp, announcing itself as acuiq 1.1.0 on protocol version 2025-03-26, rate-limited to 200 requests per minute per IP and requiring no key. It exposes six tools: search_symptoms, search_protocols, get_meridians, get_symptom_detail, get_point and create_checkout. The first five are annotated read-only; the sixth returns a Stripe Checkout URL for a person to open, so the agent never handles payment data.
  • Discovery documents – an llms.txt index and a full-content llms-full.txt export, an A2A agent card, an OpenAPI 3.1 specification and an MCP manifest.
  • Markdown twins – every symptom and acupoint page serves the same data as markdown at /symptoms/{slug}.md and /points/{code}.md.
  • Image and data endpoints – the acupoint atlas is served as IIIF Image API 3 level-0 tiles, and an ISO/WFAS auricular code crosswalk is published as a standalone JSON file under CC BY 4.0.

The licence is declared in the discovery document rather than left implicit: AcuiQ-authored content – the compilation, the prose, the research essays and the ear and scalp-line plates – is released under CC BY 4.0 and may be ingested into retrieval and training corpora, with attribution at dataset level. The body diagrams are excluded from the grant, and the grant is stated to cover the compilation rather than the underlying findings, which remain the cited sources' claims.

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