Helping women to give birth and breastfeed their newborn little ones

[R.R. Book]

So there's quite a lot that can be done without medication or allopathic practitioners.  Thanks so much for those examples of the power of accupuncture!

[ilinda]

So there's quite a lot that can be done without medication or allopathic practitioners.  Thanks so much for those examples of the power of accupuncture!

And it's good to remember that just about every acupuncture point can also be used for acupressure.  I have used acupressure off and on for years, never having wanted to get into acupuncture.  For those who have not used acupressure, it is essentially locating carefully where the point is, then applying steady, downward pressure, but not enough to cause pain, and holding steadily for two to three minutes.

I have been doing acupressure on LV3 for about five years.  LV3, or Bigger Rushing, is also known as Liver3.  Deborah Bleecker's book states that "most people need to have Liver3 treated.  It relieves strtess, and it is very relaxing.  It treats all diseases that originate in the liver as viewed by Chinese medicine..."  I began doing acupressure on LV3 right after having my mercury fillings removed, so as to help the liver detox from those decades of mercury toxicity, and to this day I continue the procedure, right before bedtime.

[R.R. Book]

Sounds like a good routine to get into. 

So I went in search of an accupressure chart on-line, and came up with conflicting info: one says that accupressure is entirely different from reflexology, while the other says they are the same thing.

[ilinda]

Authors do sometimes disagree on what is what, but it could possibly be also due to the blending of Eastern Medicine or TCM, Traditional Oriental Medicine, with Western Medicine.  There is some overlap in both, but there are some areas of both forms of medicine which are different from each other.

At any rate the thing I love about acupressure is that anyone can do it, and no needles are required.  And I loved the idea that by pressing on the small toe, near the toenail, one could, if all works as the book described, turn a breech-presentation baby around in time for delivery.

[R.R. Book]

Absolutely.