Acupressure stimulates the same points used in acupuncture, but instead of needles, firm finger pressure is used on the surface of the skin. The pressure releases neurochemicals called endorphins that relieve pain.
As in acupuncture, specific pressure points are connected with internal organs and energy pathways in the body called meridians that regulate the flow of electrical energy to all systems. Unlike acupuncture, acupressure can be used safely by anyone, with only the hands as equipment. Case histories from the authors' practice further illuminate each condition and the path to emotional balance and healing.
Most routines can be used independently for self-care and on-the-spot relief. There are also sections on how to use the techniques to help others, with appropriate safeguards. Acupressure is an effective way to treat many health issues. But which acupuncture points work best for acupressure? How do you treat the points to get the results you need? Acupressure is easy to learn, and easy to apply effectively.
No special tools are necessary to treat the points. Learn how to locate acupressure points accurately. In addition to the top acupressure points to treat each health issue, information on which supplements work best is included. Safe and easy to learn, with no drug-induced side effects, Acupressure gives you the potential to improve your health and increase your vitality. It includes: Simple techniques to relieve problems such as headaches, arthritis, colds, fatigue, insomnia, backache and depression; Pressure point maps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function; A 5-minute acupressure routine to maintain health and relieve stress; A way to complement conventional medical care and take a vital role in becoming well and staying well.
Score: 5. This friendly, do-it-yourself guide introduces you to the basics and benefits of acupressure and reflexology, showing you step by step how to nurture your emotional and physical well-being and that of someone else. Through targeted self-massage, acupressure can relieve ailments ranging from headaches and colds to stress and insomnia.
This comprehensive introduction, packed with illustrations and diagrams, presents the 12 key acupressure points along with a simple overview of the body's meridian system of energy channels.
Easy-to-follow instructions outline different massage techniques before presenting directions for healing over 40 common conditions using just 12 pressure points. It is particularly suited to self-treatment, the treatment of a partner, and especially the treatment of children. Along with an introduction to the origins and principles of traditional Chinese medicine, The Acupressure Atlas provides the most important basic techniques as well as step-by-step instructions, illustrated in full color, of the practical and specific information needed to put the healing techniques of acupressure at your fingertips.
Expert acupuncturist and top skincare specialist Shellie Goldstein presents a minute-a-day acupressure system that promises to rejuvenate facial muscle and reduce wrinkles. Cosmetic acupuncture is today's hottest antiaging treatment, and no one knows it better than Shellie Goldstein. Now, everyone can reap the benefits of Goldstein's AcuFacial r on their own at home with acupressure, a unique therapy that uses massage instead of needles to lift sagging facial muscles, reduce wrinkles, and return youthful vitality to skin tone.
Illustrated with amazing before- and-after photos and providing simple step-bystep, easy-to-follow instructions, diet recommendations, recipes, and skincare tips, Your Best Face Now teaches everyone how to erase the lines of time-on any budget- in just twenty minutes a day. Acupuncture and the chakra energy system have both become increasingly mainstream in the West, but rarely have the two approaches been joined into one practice.
By comparing the traditional approaches of Chinese medicine and modern Western acupuncture with the chakra energy system of Ayurvedic philosophy, author John Cross offers clinically proven strategies for treating the causes of conditions, not just the symptoms. The book describes the seven major and twenty-one minor chakras in detail and explains how each is related to the body's aura, meridians, Key points, endocrine glands, autonomic nervous system, and varying symptomatology.
Including appendices on how to use the chakras with copper and zinc needles and biomagnets, as well as which types of patients respond to such treatments, Acupuncture and the Chakra Energy System is a well-rounded guide for acupuncturists and other practitioners as well as interested students. Though practices like acupuncture have become popular in the West over the last few decades, they have been a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousands of years.
Hand reflexology and acupressure are two techniques that can achieve similar results to more complicated practices like acupuncture, but can be done at home, on yourself, without any tools. This book acts as a beginner's guide to these pressure-based practices. Through illustrations and easy-to-understand language, readers can learn a variety of useful pressure points, how to properly utilize them and daily care that can be done to address certain health concerns.
Through recent studies, hand reflexology and acupressure have been shown to help with a variety of issues, including: Nausea Stress, tension and anxiety Insomnia Headaches Chronic pain Digestive issues Muscle and joint injury The safe, reliable techniques outlined in this book are easy for anyone to master and, importantly, can be used anywhere. This book contains images of 39 unique acupressure points that can be used in various combinations to promote natural healing for illnesses and injuries to various parts of the body.
To view the entire guide for free before you buy, you can visit our website. This comprehensive guide shows readers how to treat common health problems using a variety of pressure point therapies: acupressure, shiatsu, reflexology, acu-yoga, and trigger-point therapy. For each condition, readers can experiment to discover which of these methods work best for them.
Forem offers therapies for more than 65 complaints from acne, arthritis, and weight control to eyestrain, headaches, and impotence. More than 50 clear illustrations show readers exactly what they need to do. A section of master drawings show the complete array of points and meridians -- the same ones used in acupuncture. Then each section offers simpler drawings illustrating only the specific points needed for the condition being discussed.
Concise instructions on pressure techniques accompany the illustrations. Acupressure is an ancient Chinese alternative medicine technique. It is derived from acupuncture. As the name reflects, it is a technique in which the ailments are treated by applying pressure on specific acu points spread throughout the body. This book succinctly introduces the benefits of foot reflexology and acupressure, the required tools and the theory behind the science.
With 77 reflex zones and 66 acupressure points, the soles of the feet are essentially a map to the human body—each one corresponds to an organ, muscle or other potential problem area. By implementing reflexology and acupressure techniques, you may be able to alleviate pain and discomfort, fatigue, stress and symptoms of chronic disease.
These techniques can be done anytime and anywhere, and require just a few minutes a day. With easy-to-understand language and more than color photos and diagrams—including computer-generated maps to help you locate the points on your own feet—this book is a comprehensive introduction to reflexology and acupressure for beginners or for those who don't have time to go to reflexology or acupuncture appointments.
Acupressure is an ancient healing art which uses the fingers to press key points on the surface of the skin and stimulate the body's natural self-curative abilities.
Safe and easy to learn, with no drug-induced side effects, Acupressure gives you the potential to improve your health and increase your vitality.
It includes: Simple techniques to relieve problems such as headaches, arthritis, colds, fatigue, insomnia, backache and depression; Pressure point maps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function; A 5-minute acupressure routine to maintain health and relieve stress; A way to complement conventional medical care and take a vital role in becoming well and staying well.
Since establishing her practice in Canada twelve years ago, Dr. In Reflections of the Moon on Water, she explains the unique philosophy behind the healing tradition, a way of thinking that is liberating and empowering for women. Sharing stories from her own life and the lives of her patients, Dr. According to this theory, when one of these meridians is blocked or out of balance, illness can occur.
Acupressure and acupuncture are among the types of TCM that are thought to help restore balance. In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing if not at times crackpot! Some may be startled by their biting sincerity; others may be spellbound by their unbridled flights of fantasy. Don't buy this book if: 1. You don't have nerves of steel. You expect to get pregnant in the next five minutes. You've heard it all. In this quick and easy to read ebook discover what you may not know about: - Acupressure potent points - Acupressure techniques - and More Grab A Copy Today!
For more than 30 years, Yoga Journal has been helping readers achieve the balance and well-being they seek in their everyday lives. With every issue,Yoga Journal strives to inform and empower readers to make lifestyle choices that are healthy for their bodies and minds. We are dedicated to providing in-depth, thoughtful editorial on topics such as yoga, food, nutrition, fitness, wellness, travel, and fashion and beauty.
Now in its eighth edition, this highly acclaimed, newly revised and expanded text continues to deliver innovative practice guidelines for evidence-based complementary and alternative therapies that can easily be incorporated into curriculum and applied directly to practice.
The new edition also highlights digital and technical advances, provides key updates to foundations for practice, and describes cutting-edge research. Updated legal information regarding regulation and credentialing, enlarged safety and precaution content, and the inclusion of a broad range of therapies add to the utility of this new edition. The only book about complementary and alternative therapies written specifically for nurses that focuses on essential evidence for practice, the text uses a consistent format to present a definition and description of each therapy, a summary of how it evolved, and a rationale for its use.
The scientific basis and research evidence for use of each therapy in a variety of specific patient populations is emphasized.
Sidebars in each chapter describe the use of various therapies in different settings worldwide. Holistic medicine has a very special concern - preventing illness and maintaining health. While conventional medicine has a powerful arsenal of weapons to coax the ill body back to health, holistic medicine uses a wider range of therapies which reinforce the body's own defenses to restore balance.
Acupuncture and Acupressure have over 4, years of recorded healings. This book explains how they work and why, for many kinds of health problems, it is a better healing approach than conventional Western medicine.
Self-Massage for Athletes puts the power of massage into the hands of those who need it most. Well illustrated with more than one-hundred black and white photos; this handy book presents a user friendly guide to self-massage. It lays out seven simple massage strokes that form an easily learned effective massage therapy. Rub your troubles away with this excellent book.
Help me sleep! How can I get a good night sleep? How to get to sleep? I can't sleep! Sleep problems ranging from difficulty to fall asleep to total insomnia take a heavy toll on our health. Sleep deprivation is indeed so disturbing for our balance and global health physical, mental, emotional that it is used as a torture and mind manipulation technique. If you suffer from insomnia and are looking for a sleep remedy that does not involve chemicals or complicated protocoles, self-acupressure is for you!
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