All Entries in the "Acupressure" Category
Acupressure And Acupuncture For Sciatica
A reader of this blog wanted to know what could be done in order to relieve the pain caused by sciatica using acupressure.
Well acupressure and acupuncture use the same results by applying consistent pressure at the same meridians; only the process is different.
While acupressure uses consistent pressure to be applied, acupuncture [...]
Acupressure Or Getting Well Through Magical Touch
The acupressure is an ancient science originated from China, whose technique is based on the same principles as acupuncture but implies the pressure of fingers in the specific areas instead of piercing it with needles. This is a method that allows accessing and freeing the energy centers that are blocked or [...]
Alternative Medicine Can Help With Nausea Resulting From Cancer Treatments
Nausea is a common side-effect of the radiation and chemotherapy treatments used to treat various types of cancer.
Recent studies suggest that acupressure, a variation of a form of traditional Chinese medicine, may help with that nausea.
There is an anti-nausea point on the inside of the arm, just above the bend of [...]
Headache Relief Using Acupressure
We all suffer from headaches from time to time.
There is an easily accessible acupressure points that can help relieve headache pain, especially if your headache is located toward the front of your head as with sinus headaches.
This point, known as Large Intestine 4 or its more lyrical name “Joining the [...]
Treating Bed Wetting With Acupressure Therapy
Wetting the bed is common in young children. If your child has this problem they are not alone. You will need to take your child to a physician for this problem to see if bed-wetting is an underlying medical condition.
A medical condition is not always to blame for bed wetting though. [...]
Losing Weight Through Acupressure
Losing weight can be such an ordeal for many people.
No matter how many diet programs they have followed to the long, grueling hours in the gym, somehow the weight just won’t seem to come off.
Are you looking for any alternative ways to lose weight? Alternative methods such as detoxification and [...]
Acupressure Calms Children Before Surgery
An acupressure treatment applied to children undergoing anesthesia noticeably lowers their anxiety levels and makes the stress of surgery more calming for them and their families, UC Irvine anesthesiologists have learned.
According to Dr. Zeev Kain, anesthesiology and perioperative care chair, and his Yale University collaborator Dr. Shu-Ming Wang, this noninvasive, drug-free method is an effective, [...]
Acupressure Technique To Induce Labor Naturally!
When you are in ninth month of pregnancy, you will be waiting for the baby to born. There are many methods to encourage your labor with less pain.
Some of the methods are however risky. A natural way to encourage labor is acupressure and it is called as labor acupressure.
Labor acupressure is a [...]
