ACUPRESSURE
Written By: Zehra Nasirali

 

            Acupressure is a simple, oriental massage.  Particular points of the body are pressed with fingers to ease aches, pains, tensions, fatigue and symptoms of disease.  These points are about 800 in number.  They are located at specific places in the body’s skin and muscular system where the nerves hurt or they feel uncomfortable and the low of energy through the body is blocked.  Therefore, acupressure, which comes under the study of ‘Reflexology’, helps other patients to circulate their energy again and to relieve them of pain.

            Acupressure points are located along specific pathways all over the body.  These are also called “meridian lines”, which are fourteen channels through which the body’s energy flows.  These meridians pass through t many parts of the body and connect the vital organs.  This is why a “long-distance treatments” or pressing a point far from the location of the pain is effective.

            Like acupuncture, acupressure also when skillfully performed, can relieve many kinds of chronic problems, disabling aches and pains.  The best part about acupressure is that it leaves no side effects and the results are long lasting.

            Three meridians run up the outer hands.  Another three run down the inner hands.  All these six pass through the wrist.

            The ear contains tiny acupressure points, which correspond to every part and organ of the body.  Pressing these points on the ears will balance and invigorate your whole system.

 

SOME HANDY POINTS:

·        If you raise your bent elbow to an angle of 90 degrees from the body you will find an indentation on the outside of the shoulder bone.  Massage this point on both sides of the body in case of a stroke.

·        If the left side of the middle nose body is pressed vigorously, it can stop an asthma or heart attack.

 

DID YOU KNOW:

·        That thirty-two pairs of nerves are fitted into the spine and each pair is connected with a different organ in the body.  Massaging the spine sends healing currents to each organ and keeps them in balance.

·        That acupressure massage can balance your system in only 20 minutes.

 

Ideally, acupressure can be best used not to cure disease but to maintain sound health, vitality, and stamina in the body, to strengthen the internal organs and prevent energy getting blocked.  There are acupressure points all over the body: on the feet, the back, chest and all over the body including the head.  Even as a beginner, one will find acupressure very effective in relieving the external symptoms of any diseases as well as simple muscular aches and pains caused by tensions and fatigue.  In general, one will find acupressure most useful in raising the energy level and making you strong.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1. Ghala, Dr. Dhiran, “Refloxology”, Book on Accupressure, Gala Publishers, Ahmadabad, 1991.
  2. Vora, Devendra, “Acupressure Therapy (Reflexology), Health in Your Hands, Gala Publishers, Bombay, 1992-93.

 

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