Whatever your age, whatever your lifestyle, you can discover the remarkable, hands-on healing power of Finger Acupressure. Over the centuries, the Chinese have perfected the art of locating specific pressure points that can be used to enhance the body’s natural healing processes. Now, here is a book that puts these ancient insights at your fingertips. As safe and soothing as massage, Finger Acupressure offers simple, painless step-by-step processes that will help you relieve more than thirty common, everyday aches and ailments, including abdominal pain, asthma, the common cold, headaches, hypertension, lower back pain, nervousness, toothache, and more.

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.

A guide to acupressure treatments for more than 150 common illnesses and conditions • Shares step-by-step treatment protocols for illnesses such as cold, flu, or digestive problems; chronic conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, and thyroid disorders; and nervous system and emotional complaints such as depression, shingles, Bell’s palsy, and stage fright • Includes detailed diagrams of the commonly known and prescribed acupressure points as well as important new acupoints discovered by contemporary Chinese medical researchers • Explains how acupressure stimulates the body’s natural healing ability With the simple touch of your fingertips you can quickly and easily bring comfort and relief from pain and illness. In this illustrated guide to acupressure for self-care and care of your loved ones, Roger Dalet, M.D., shares step-by-step treatment protocols for more than 150 diseases and disorders—from illnesses such as cold, flu, or digestive upset to chronic conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, thyroid disorders, and heart problems to nervous system and emotional complaints such as depression, shingles, and Bell’s palsy. Exploring how acupressure works, the author explains how massaging specific healing points stimulates the body’s own natural healing ability. Within each treatment protocol, he offers guidance on how acupressure can best help the situation—whether it is capable of completely curing a condition or whether it should be used to support other healing modalities. In addition to detailed diagrams of the commonly known and prescribed acupressure points, Dr. Dalet includes important new acupoints discovered by contemporary Chinese medical researchers that address ailments resulting from our more sedentary lifestyles and use of computers, such as obesity and eye strain. He also recommends the most effective options for stimulating the points, including devices for electrical stimulation. A valuable resource for any home, the acupressure treatments presented in this handbook can provide immediate relief for pain and injuries as well as be used preventively. Most important, they offer an effective method of self-care and a way to provide comfort and relief to ailing loved ones, especially the delicate immune systems of children.

Increased stress and traumatic events in our lives have resulted in many millions of people who suffer from insomnia, nightmares, anxiety attacks, depression, and tension headaches. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers relief at your fingertips, quickly and safely, for a wide range of emotional problems. It explains how emotional distress becomes lodged in the body as muscular tension and blocked energy, and shows how acupressure can relieve not just the resulting physical symptoms, but also their emotional source--often without the need for extensive talk therapy or medication. 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. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers a comprehensive A-Z guide to emotional ailments (from abandonment to worry and obsessive thinking), with fully-illustrated instruction on dozens of precise acupressure point locations and how to activate them, combined with yogic breathing, stretching, and movement routines. 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.

Shiatsu, the ancient art of health, is the oldest known form of physical therapy. Together with acupuncture, acupressure it is considered a miraculous way to well-being. This book offers a release from the acute tension syndrome.