Thursday, October 28, 2010

GAME OF MIND & BODY

diabetes acupressure

Many patients found diabetes acupressure healing touch has decreased the severity of their diabetes by normalizing qi flow to organs causing diabetes.

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How acupressure helps to normalize blood sugar/glucose level?

Applying gentle pressure on precise acupoints called acupressure is believed to stimulate the central nervous system (i.e. brain & spinal cord) to release chemicals into the muscles, spinal cord, and the brain. These chemicals release other chemicals, such as hormones, that influence the body's natural healing abilities and promote physical and emotional wellbeing. And thus naturally the blood’s sugar/glucose level normalizes without any negative side effect, but may be with positive side effects (additional benefits).

Before applying any alternative medicines therapy, you should be aware that many of these therapies have not been evaluated in scientific studies.

Diabetes as per TCM (Traditional Chinese medicine)

As per TCM, diabetes causes is due to internal organ malfunction or mental reasons. They diagnose 3 types of diabetes syndrome and the treatment for diabetes according to these types. TCM also utilize acupressure treatment for diabetes.


Diabetes is known in TCM (traditional chinese medicine) as depletion-thirst disease, characterized by polydipsia (drinks abnormally large amounts of fluids), polyphagia (eating too much), polyuria (passage of large volumes of urine) and emaciation (occurs when a organism loses substantial amounts of much needed fat & often muscle tissue, making that organism look extremely thin).

Causes of diabetes as per Chinese medicine

  • The spleen and stomach are damaged by overeating greasy food or by over-consuming alcohol, causing failure of the spleen in transporting and transforming which, in turn, causes interior-heat to accumulate and consume food and body fluids, finally resulting in diabetes.
  • Anxiety, anger and mental depression can injure the liver by causing the liver qi to stagnate. Protractedly stagnated liver qi turns into evil heat which consumes body fluids and eventually leads to diabetes.
  • Deficiency in the kidneys caused by intemperance in sexual life or congenital essence defect causes the kidney qi to wane; as a result, the kidney qi fails to maintain the functioning of the bladder in restraining urine discharge, thus polyuria occurs.

Diagnosis of diabetes in TCM

Traditional Chinese medicine identifies three types of diabetes: the upper depletion-thirst, the middle depletion-thirst, and the lower depletion-thirst.

1. Upper-warmer depletion-thirst diseases

Pathogenic heat consumes the lung yin, thus affecting the upper-warmer.

Primary manifestations: Severe thirst accompanied by dryness of the mouth and tongue, polyguria, reddened tip and margin of the tongue with thin, yellow coating, and full and rapid pulse.

2. Middle-warmer depletion-thirst disease 

Excessive fire of the stomach consumes the stomach yin fluids.

Primary manifestations: Polyphagia, emaciation, constipation, reddened tongue with dry, yellow coating, and slippery and strong pulse.

3. Lower-warmer depletion-thirst disease 

a) Yin deficiency: A morbid state due to a defect in the kidney essence and consumption of the kidney yin.

Primary manifestations: Polyguria, turbid urine, dry mouth, reddened tongue with little coating, and weak and rapid pulse.

b) Deficiency of both yin and yang: A morbid state due to deficiency of the kidney yin and yang.

Primary manifestations: Severe polyguria, turbid urine, lassitude, spontaneous sweating, shortness of breath, impotence, dark complexion, pale tongue with white coating, and deep and weak pulse.

Accupressure healing touch diabetes

Every diabetes sufferer knows that there is no cure for diabetes. However, people who have undergone acupressure diabetes healing find improvement in their blood glucose or sugar level after acupressure treatment. Acupressure uses different pressure points in the body to improve a person's health. The important acupoints are spleen 6, Liver 3, kidney 3, stomach 40 and reflex points of liver, pituitary, pancreas, thyroid and adrenal.

Spleen 6 (Sp-6) diabetes acupressure point

Location: On the inside of the lower leg, one hand width (four fingers) above the tip of the ankle bone, on the back of the shin bone.

Procedure: Pressure and intention can be used to stimulate this point using a slight clockwise circular motion for 3 minutes on each leg daily for 8-12 weeks.
Spleen 6 (Sp-6) diabetes acupressure pointsBenefits: This healing touch point is one of the most commonly used points and one of the most versatile. Because the point crosses the Spleen, Kidney and Liver meridians, it can treat many conditions associated with all three organs. It's an important point in the treatment of any digestive, gynecological & emotional condition.


Liver 3 (Liv-3) diabetes acupressure point

Location: On the foot, on the line between the big toe and the second toe. The point is located about 3 finger widths from the edge, in the depression the size of a finger tip you can feel there.

Procedure: Pressure and intention can be used to stimulate this point using a slight counter-clockwise circular motion for 3 minutes on each arm daily for 8-12 weeks.
Liver 3 (Liv-3) diabetes acupressure pointsBenefits: This accupressure treatment Relaxes & unblocks emotions (especially repressed anger) and Depression.



Warning: Don't to when weak or low on energy (in that case use SP-6).


Kidney 3 (K-3) diabetes acupressure point

Location: On the inside of the foot, halfway between the Achilles-tendon and the side of the ankle-bone.
Kidney 3 (K-3) diabetes acupressure pointsProcedure: Pressure and intention can be used to stimulate this point using a slight clockwise circular motion for 3 minutes on each ankle daily for 8-12 weeks.

Benefits: This healing touch heals effects on the body of too much fear (Also for lower back-pain), Strengthens the immune system and relieves fatigue.

Stomach 40 (St-40) diabetes acupressure point

Stomach 40 (St-40) diabetes acupressure pointLocation: On the anterior aspect of the lower leg, 8 fingers superior to the external malleolus.

Procedure: Pressure and intention can be used to stimulate this point using a slight clockwise circular motion for 3 minutes on each ankle daily for 8-12 weeks.

Benefits: It is known as the Phlegm point. This acupressure treatment helps resolve phlegm throughout the body.

Are Diabetes acupressure safe?

Acupressure is generally reported as safe. No serious complications have been published, despite millions of treatments every year. Self-administered acupressure is believed to be safe with proper training. Vigorous acupressure may cause bruising in sensitive individuals.

Acupressure and Reflex Points







Learn foot reflex areas that correspond to all areas of the body, including the internal organs, glands, spinal column, and sense organs. This foot reflexology chart includes 11 illustrations showing different regions and functions.

Great as reference to incorporate therapeutic foot massage for self-care and as a bodywork study guide.


See chart Enlarged


chart



Rules and Guidelines for Treatment


1.Rules
  • Since simple healing systems work without any specific diagnosis, overall treatment can be given to correct all the imbalances.
  • Listen to the complaints carefully.
  • Soreness or pain is common at most points and does not by itself indicate any abnormality.
  • Never prescribe any medicines if you are not authorised by your formal qualification.
  • Never treat any specific illness but give importance to those specific points.
  • Describe your technique willingly and educate them by demonstration.
  • Share your knowledge and encourage self-help technique.
2. Guidelines
  • Look out for any visible abnormality in feet and hands.
  • Pleasurable pain should be the goal; intersperse the acupressure sessions with desserts and relax the person.
  • Never work on affected areas; keep your finger-nails trimmed so that they do not make any contact with the skin.
  • Although one can use health gadgets if many people are to be treated at once, there is no substitute for human hand and human touch.
  • Never try to do all at once. Each treatment can be done for ten to twenty minutes and the results are expected within four to eight weeks. Severe problems will take a longer time.
  • Consistency and regularity are essential to get results. Twice a week is recommended for the frequency of treatment with self-help.
  • Occasionally body may react to get ride of the toxins accumulated in the body. Work on the kidney area at the end of the treatment.
  • Position the person in a relaxed way and have a direct eye contact while applying pressure to observe the reactions. Wash your hands clean using a soap.
3. General
  • It is safe for everyone including babies and old people.
  • Apply light pressure on the feet of the infants and the pressure has to be soothing for the old people.
  • Finally the attitude of the therapist is very important for the success of the treatment.

Accupressure-definition

Acu pressure:
All for Health and Health for all.Cure the Disease and don’t treat the symptom
Universally now accepted is the Acupressure system.
Press and release to give some pleasurable pain.
Relax and rejuvenate to restore the balance again.
Energy, ‘the qi’, flows on each side on zones five.
Stored up for ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ for you and I.
Stress is relieved thro’ a dozen meridians, paired.
Unpaired are two others, not to be spared.
Reflexology is the basis of zone therapy.
Especially of foot, but of hand, face and ear no doubt.

Friday, October 8, 2010

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