Acupressure's Potent Points: A Guide to Self-Care for Common AilmentsWith your hands you have potential to relieve everyday aches, pains and ailments without taking drugs, to improve your health, and to increase your vitality. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to stimulate key points on the skin that, in turn, activate the body's natural self-healing processes. With this book, it is a skill you can learn now--and use in your own home. In Acupressure's Potent Points, Michael Reed Gach, founder and director of the Acupressure Institute of America, reveals simple techniques that enable you to relieve headaches, arthritis, colds and flu, insomnia, backaches, hiccups, leg pain, hot flashes, depression, and more--using the power and sensitivity of your own hands. This practical guide covers more than forty ailments and symptoms, from allergies to wrist pain, providing pressure-point maps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function. Acupressure complements conventional medical care, and enables you to take a vital role in becoming well and staying well. With this book you can turn your hands into healing tools--and start feeling good now. |
Contents
What is Acupressure? | 3 |
Practicing SelfAcupressure | 9 |
ACUPRESSURE POINTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SPECIFIC AILMENTS | 15 |
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Acupressure's Potent Points: A Guide to Self-Care for Common Ailments Michael Reed Gach, PhD No preview available - 1990 |
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abdominal Achilles tendon acupressure points Additional Points ankle anklebone anxiety arthritis asthma belly button Benefits body bone breastbone breathe deeply Briskly rub chapter chest Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Close your eyes congestion constipation deep breaths diarrhea directly emotional eyestrain feel firm pressure Firmly press foot Four finger widths free hand hay fever head headaches healing heel hollow hot flashes immune system indentation index finger indigestion insomnia irritability knee pain Location lower back massage menstrual cramps Mile Point St minute nausea neck pain NUMBERS one-half inch Place your right Point St 36 Points for Relieving Potent Point Exercises problems related points relax ropy muscles routine sciatica second toe self-acupressure shinbone shoulder tension sinus skull spasms spine Step stiff necks stimulate stomach strengthen stress take long Third Eye Point thumb and index toothaches traditional Chinese medicine trigger point underneath the base upper wrist crease