This complete self-teaching guide is the perfect handbook for beginners and students alike. It uniquely links Eastern and Western approaches to reflexology and health, making this a comprehensive guide to using the meridians and pressure points of the feet to treat a wide range of ailments.The ebook now includes illustrations.Reflexology, the gentle but highly effective form of therapeutic foot massage, has gained wide acceptance as a powerful, natural healing art. Remarkable results have been achieved with ailments such as back pain, chronic fatigue (ME), digestive problems, eczema, insomnia and migraine.Inge Dougans’s book includes her latest research into the benefits of her unique techniques and is a complete self-teaching guide suitable for beginners and students alike.Bringing together East and West by making clear the close connection between reflexology and Chinese meridian theory, internationally respected reflexologist Inge Dougans shows how the human body has its own internal energy lines – or acupuncture meridians – and reveals how to find and use the reflexology points and associated meridians on the foot to restore the body to its natural balance, prevent ill health and assist relaxation.This comprehensive handbook includes: • the history of reflexology and the Chinese meridian therapy • an explanation of how reflexology and the meridian theory work • illustrated step-by-step reflexology treatments for specific ailments • treatments of meridian disorders • case histories.
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Inge Dougans. Reflexology: The 5 Elements and their 12 Meridians: A Unique Approach
dedication
contents
introduction
chapter 1. the foundation of modern reflexology
chapter 2. the principles of chinese medicine
chapter 3. applying a knowledge of the meridians in reflexology
chapter 4. the 5 elements and their 12 meridians
chapter 5. mapping the feet
chapter 6. anatomy, structure and conditions of the feet
chapter 7. the treatment sequence
appendix. the vacuflex system
references
bibliography
acknowledgements
copyright
about the publisher
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This book is dedicated to my two sons, Daniel and Thomas, who wholeheartedly believe and support me – you are my yin/yang balance in my life; and also to Wolf-Rudiger, who for years has been the ‘spark’ that keeps my fire element strong.
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Note: The fact that yang represents the positive and yin represents the negative does not imply that yang has a positive value and yin has a negative value. It is purely an indication that they are two opposing polarities. No deeper interpretation, meaning or value should be attached than this.
It is said that heaven was created by the accumulation of yang and that Earth was created by the accumulation of yin.30 Human beings are the result of the interaction between the yang of heaven and the yin of Earth – the ‘offspring of their union.’31 Humans draw energy or Chi from heaven and Earth and transform it into an energy system suitable for the body’s organs and their functions.32 Implicit in this is the fact that human beings are interwoven with nature and cannot be separated from it.
